Chatting AI, Psychedelics and Creative Brains

Saturday SatSang at Om Being

Kate Dalby with Imogen Fox

Weaving together their overlapping research and passion, Kate and Imogen will discuss creative exploration.

Despite not always feeling inspired, we all possess a creative brain, able to innovate and imagine. In this sense, creativity is a way of being. Distinct brain patterns underlie original thought and moments of cognitive flow. Listening to music or moving our body may instigate inspiration moving our mind into liminal states of ideation or daydreaming - letting the mind wander and imagine new ideas. Can we enhance this creative potential through a dialogue with non-human intelligence?

Psychedelics are an ancient technology that opens us up to engage with life, appreciating the aesthetic world. By activating more distant associative connections in the brain, multiple viewpoints of a problem unleash and the unusual, abstract is unlocked.

Partnering with AI offers expansion of our human creative potential; biosensing, special effects, VR, gaming, spatial sound.
But, where is the line between where technology ends and human imagination and creativity takes over? AI is a tool and driver, a technology to get to new outcomes, but it may dissolve something we value more, our own indispensability to the process of discovery?

SatSang, meaning “gathering in truth,” is a conversation at Om Being with The Psychedelic Society, talking about the science behind a topic that affect us everyday: a need to belong. Expect thoughtful dialogues and moments of reflection.

All are welcome.

Note: tickets are on Om Being booking system, but please reach out to kate@psychedelicsociety.org.ukfor any help.

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Schedule

Saturday 23rd May
Arrive and Opening: 2pm

Conversation: 2.30-3pm

Questions: 3.30-4pm

Closing and Conversation: 3.30pm

Finish: 4pm

Venue

Om Being: a creative movement, sound and community space in Hackney Downs.

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Imogen Fox

@iimofox

Imogen Fox (she/her) is a creative technologist + immersive artist working across 3D, XR, AI, and graphic design to create immersive visual worlds.

Her practice explores the shifting relationship between perception and reality, informed by cyberfeminism, surrealism, and post-human thought. Through speculative digital environments, she examines how bodies, machines, and virtual worlds intersect.

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Your Organiser and Host

@katedalbyy

Kate (she/her) is an event coordinator at the Psychedelic Society. Her research background spans clinical sleep studies, altered states of consciousness, and personalised gene therapies. She currently works applying neuroscience to the arts at the neuroaesthetics lab, Kinda Studios. Working with Onaya Science, she explores how rituals, music, and plant medicines support trauma recovery. Kate brings curiosity and care to the ways we feel, connect, and transform (and will usually be found outside).