RhizomeMind is an interdisciplinary research-creation platform and emerging venture, bringing together research, filmmaking, artistic production, curation, exhibition, and technologies to examine how emerging media reshape perception, embodied experience, environmental relations, and cultural expression.
It approaches research, creative practice, and technological development as mutually informing activities. Research questions generate films, artworks, exhibitions, and experiments. Producing and presenting these works reveals how audiences encounter emerging forms of media, how institutions support them, and how technical systems shape their experience. These encounters, in turn, inform new research, creative work, viewing technologies, and modes of public presentation.
AI and VR are central to RhizomeMind’s current work, but they do not define its outer limits. Rather than organizing itself around a single technology, RhizomeMind investigates how emerging technologies mediate relations among bodies, environments, images, data, and institutions. The platform provides a shared structure through which distinct projects can develop while retaining their own research questions, creative methods, collaborators, and forms of public engagement.
What Guides Our Approach?
RhizomeMind begins from the premise that technologies are not neutral channels through which information or creative content simply passes. Technologies help organize what can be perceived, represented, communicated, and experienced. They influence relations among viewers, images, environments, institutions, and the material infrastructures through which media are produced and circulated.
Our work therefore considers emerging technologies at several connected levels:
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as creative media through which new aesthetic and narrative forms can be developed;
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as perceptual systems that organize sensory engagement, attention, embodiment, and spatial experience;
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as technical infrastructures with material, environmental, and social consequences;
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as cultural systems that shape how knowledge, agency, and authorship are understood;
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and as practical technologies whose design affects how creative work reaches audiences and institutions.
Artistic practice is central to this approach. RhizomeMind does not treat art solely as a vehicle for illustrating research findings or communicating established knowledge. Creative practice is understood as a generative mode of inquiry capable of posing questions, testing relationships, reorganizing perception, and opening experiential dimensions that other research methods may overlook.
This research-creation model allows conceptual inquiry, artistic production, audience experience, and technological development to remain in active relation. A film or immersive installation can function simultaneously as a creative work, a perceptual experiment, a site of public encounter, and a way of identifying limitations or possibilities within existing technologies.
How We Work
RhizomeMind’s activities currently span four connected areas.
Research and Critical Inquiry
We develop and publish research on AI, immersive media, environmental experience, embodied perception, spectatorship, and the cultural consequences of emerging technologies.
The platform supports individual and collaborative inquiry while creating opportunities for dialogue among researchers, artists, technologists, institutions, and public audiences.
Creative Production
RhizomeMind produces and supports work across AI-based art, VR filmmaking, immersive media, digital storytelling, and experimental moving-image practices.
Creative production is treated as a form of investigation through which new questions and perceptual relationships can emerge.
Curation, Exhibition, and Public Engagement
We curate and present films, digital artworks, immersive experiences, talks, interviews, and collaborative programs. These activities create opportunities to examine how emerging work is framed, encountered, discussed, and evaluated.
Public presentation is also a form of research. It reveals how different audiences respond to unfamiliar technologies, how institutions manage emerging media, and how exhibition conditions affect accessibility, interpretation, and sustained engagement.
Technological and Venture Development
RhizomeMind translates insights from research, production, and exhibition into potential technologies, services, partnerships, and institutional delivery models.
Current work includes exploring media-first VR viewing, content partnerships, existing hardware platforms, institutional deployment, and more sustainable ways of developing and circulating immersive experiences.
Originating Project
Mapping Digital Environmentalism through AI-Based Arts
Supported by the 2025 Western Sustainable Impact Fund, the project investigates how emerging technologies, particularly AI and VR, influence environmental representation, storytelling, perception, and public engagement.
Its activities include:
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research and publication on AI, digital media, and environmental thought;
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talks, interviews, and public conversations;
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interdisciplinary collaborations among students, scholars, artists, scientists, and technologists;
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creative experimentation with generative AI and immersive media;
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and film and creative art programming addressing environmental experience and emerging technology.
The project continues within RhizomeMind as a distinct research and creative direction. Its detailed questions, activities, collaborators, and outcomes can be explored on the dedicated project page.
Collaboration
RhizomeMind welcomes conversations with researchers, artists, filmmakers, curators, cultural and educational institutions, technology companies, hardware and platform partners, funders, and investors working across AI, VR, immersive media, environmental experience, and emerging technologies.
We are particularly interested in collaborations that connect research with creative production and public presentation, as well as partnerships that can help develop and deliver more thoughtful, accessible, and sustainable forms of immersive experience.