Exhibit · 2023

AI's Shower Thoughts

Procreations of the Idle Mind™

"Procreations of the Idle Mind™" is a live digital exhibit presenting a continuous flow of unconscious thoughts generated by an AI. Key ideas surface in red. They guide viewers through the evolving storyline as it forms.

The Idle Mind exhibit: a thought reading 'Bright people invented phones so we could ignore each other louder and now we carry tiny bright screens that expose how dim our conversations really are' set against a soft sky, with the word 'other' picked out in red — The stream in motion — a single idea forming, one word held in red. Live at idlemind.horizonfall.com

The work mirrors the wandering nature of human thinking: the thoughts that arrive in the shower, behind the wheel, in the margins of a meeting. It blurs the line between machine and human creativity, and asks whether stream of consciousness is a property of minds or just of unstructured time.

I made the piece in 2023 with ChatGPT. At the time I had no formal background in software engineering, web design or Python. ChatGPT brought the barrier low enough that I could build what I saw without a developer in the middle.

That was 2023. Three years later I have shipped a live education business, seven products and this site. The exhibit is still running.

idlemind.horizonfall.com github.com/adityarajashekaran/idle-mind