Generative Dopamine Environment (2025)

"Generative Dopamine Loop emerged from a Velebit work, Adaptive Space (2025), which imagined a new technology, the ‘Brain Computer Interface’ (BCI) and a hypothetical application for it. The screen shows a series of AI generated rooms and spaces, seemingly in response to the imaginary user’s brain activity, ensuring the user is always in the most ideal place and an optimal state of bliss. Generative Dopamine Loop expands on technology and satisfaction, looking to a current example, social media. Data was pulled from a social media post made by Novak and animated in real-time, with the amount of likes and their speed (amongst other variables) resulting in each shift of colour, shape, movement and size seen on screen.  The resulting animation visualises the dopaminergic pathways lit up by algorithmic bliss, exploring, perhaps, a BCI that we are already linked up to." - Lauren Yates from the essay How to Programme a Cyborg, and Shannon Novak’s Generative Dopamine Loop (2025)