The Nearly-AI Live

 

🧠⚡ Review: Running a Nearly-AI Live Event

Alchemise Innovation | October 2025 | Newcastle

We didn’t set out to run a live event. We set out to prototype a living system—part ritual, part remix engine, part haunted cinema. The goal? A modular, lore-driven experience that felt like it was thinking with us. Not quite AI-run, but AI-augmented. Not quite scripted, but scaffolded. And definitely not safe.

🎛️ The Setup

  • Trigger logic: Built around seasonal overlays, lore reveals, and audience challenges.

  • Asset layering: Transparent glyphs, glitch loops, and participatory merch drops.

  • AI role: Real-time remixing, quote generation, and reactive overlays.

  • Human role: Chaos management, debugging, and last-minute ritual rewrites.

We used a blend of preloaded overlays, live prompts, and AI-generated glyphs to simulate sentience. The audience could “unlock” new layers by shouting phrases, scanning QR codes, or triggering lore events. Some overlays were timed. Others were reactive. One was accidentally recursive and nearly crashed the system.

🧩 What Worked

  • Participatory triggers: Viewers loved the feeling of “summoning” new content.

  • AI quote loops: Generated slogans mid-show that ended up on tees by morning.

  • Lore scaffolding: The modular structure let us pivot fast when tech glitched.

  • Regional satire: Geordie overlays hit hard—especially “Baltic but brave” and “Nightlife Dept.”

🧨 What Broke

  • Latency loops: AI lag caused some overlays to stack infinitely.

  • Asset sync: One glyph rendered backwards and summoned the wrong trigger.

  • Audience chaos: Too many simultaneous inputs overwhelmed the logic tree.

  • Hardware strain: Our Easythreed printer tried to print a live overlay mid-show. It failed gloriously.

🧠 Final Thoughts

We didn’t run an AI event. We ran a nearly-AI ritual. The system didn’t think—but it felt like it might. Every glitch became lore. Every remix became merch. Every failure became a feature.

Would we do it again? Absolutely. But next time, we’re giving the AI a name, a mask, and a warning label.















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