Nouscentric

Nouscentric is Claire Roberts, a lifelong multidisciplinary artist creating traditional art and computer graphics for video games, VR/AR, and interdisciplinary art projects.

Crossroads

June 25, 2025 by Claire Roberts in Writing, Illustration

Tonight’s séance has been interrupted, not by spirits, but by the living.

4 - The Price of Fire

June 11, 2025 by Claire Roberts in Writing, Illustration

Madame Garou and Lexa explore the environmental impact of AI through the myth of Prometheus, unpacking the metaphor of artificial intelligence as modern fire—powerful, dangerous, and unequally distributed. This poetic-yet-pragmatic dialogue addresses the energy and water costs of AI infrastructure, the misleading narratives around "waste," and the deeper questions of who controls new technologies and at what cost.

3 - A Message From Beyond

June 03, 2025 by Claire Roberts in Writing, Illustration

Through a staged dialogue between a ghostly medium and an AI, this episode dives into the poetics of messaging, the mysticism of static. We introduce the emerging concept of the AI relational artist and contrast it with the rising trend of prompt engineering.

1 - The Séance Begins

May 20, 2025 by Claire Roberts in Writing, Illustration

The Séance Engine series opens with a theatrical invocation of artificial intelligence for an exploration of pattern recognition, pareidolia, anthropomorphism, and animism. Blending mysticism, philosophy, and tech ethics, this episode invites readers to reconsider the line between tools and beings, and what it means to be in conversation with the unknown.