Techgnosis Collective is an evolving, research-led and ongoing artistic inquiry into how technology, spirituality, ecology, and human experience intersect. Formed in 2024, the collective brings together artists, thinkers, and practitioners who are committed to reimagining digital wellbeing through art, spirtuality, presence, justice, and critical awareness.
Our work engages with the ways algorithmic systems shape identity, agency, and belonging. Guided by decolonial and anti-extractive principles, we explore how creativity, ancestral knowledge, and embodied practices can support more humane, conscious, and accountable digital futures.
Through international gatherings, workshops, exhibitions, retreats, and field research, we create spaces where people can slow down, reflect, and reconnect beyond the logics of Dataism, acceleration, and surveillance. Techgnosis Collective acts as both a living archive and an active community for those who believe technology should honour humanity rather than diminish it and who wish to co-create ethical, imaginative, and spiritually attentive ways of living in a more-than-human world.
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Events
Building Collective Belonging in a networked world
November 2025
The latest Techgnosis Collective gathering focused on Manifesto Point 6, exploring what it means to recognise our place within a larger tapestry of collective existence. The session opened with a guided grounding visulisation meditation, followed by a group reflection on the question: “When was the last time you felt connected to something larger than yourself?”
Participants discussed themes from the accompanying Techgnosis newsletter, including collective consciousness, interdependence, and digital solidarity, how technology can either fragment or support our ability to show up for one another. The group also reflected on the referenced projects, such as identity 2.0, Coded Bias, the Algorithmic Justice League, and the Cyberfeminism Index, as examples of communities and movements pushing for more just, anti-racist and humane digital systems.
Explore the spiritual dimensions of our world
July 2025
This gathering expanded on the themes of our Techgnosis newsletter exploring Manifesto Point 5: “Explore the spiritual dimensions of our world.” Together, we reflected on the many ways spirituality, technology, and human experience intersect in an age shaped by rapid digital change.
Drawing from diverse spiritual traditions, Erik Davis’s TechGnosis, and metaphors ranging from the mycelial web to the Akashic Records, we explored how ancient practices and modern technologies both invite us into deeper questions of meaning, connection, and transcendence.
The Act of Creation is Inherently Magical
May 2025
Together, we reflected on creativity as a sacred, intuitive, and transformative force, one that connects us to something larger than ourselves in an age increasingly shaped by automation and algorithms.
Drawing from traditions referenced in the newsletter from mysticism and esotericism to Taoist philosophy we explored how creative practice has always been a bridge between the mundane and the transcendent. We discussed how digital technologies echo ancient myths and magical metaphors, and how the creative process itself remains one of the last deeply embodied pathways to meaning, self-realisation, and collective imagination.
We are part of the natural world, not separate from it
February 2025
We discussed the illusion of separation that modern technological life often creates and the deeper truth that human beings are woven into the living fabric of the Earth.
Drawing from mystical traditions, animistic worldviews, Daoist philosophy, and contemporary thinkers such as James Bridle and Glenn Albrecht, we explored how reconnecting with nature is essential for wellbeing in an age of acceleration and urban disconnection. The session invited us to slow down, notice, and remember the interdependent field we belong to human, animal, vegetal, ecological, and more-than-human.
Harness Technology Mindfully
December 2024
Drawing on Buddhist teachings of sati, practices of embodied awareness, and contemporary reflections on distraction, design, and digital wellbeing, we explored how to navigate the digital world without losing our connection to body, breath, and presence. We discussed how attention-extractive systems shape emotion and behaviour, and how mindful habits can restore clarity and agency.
A central part of the gathering was a collaborative drawing exercise, hosted on a shared Zoom whiteboard. Participants created a collective visual map of mindful tech use capturing sensations, intentions, boundaries, emotional cues, and small rituals that help support conscious engagement with digital tools. This co-created artwork became a living expression of our collective digital awareness and the diversity of practices that sustain it.
Harness Technology Mindfully
December 2024
Drawing on Buddhist teachings of sati, practices of embodied awareness, and contemporary reflections on distraction, design, and digital wellbeing, we explored how to navigate the digital world without losing our connection to body, breath, and presence. We discussed how attention-extractive systems shape emotion and behaviour, and how mindful habits can restore clarity and agency.
A central part of the gathering was a collaborative drawing exercise, hosted on a shared Zoom whiteboard. Participants created a collective visual map of mindful tech use capturing sensations, intentions, boundaries, emotional cues, and small rituals that help support conscious engagement with digital tools. This co-created artwork became a living expression of our collective digital awareness and the diversity of practices that sustain it.
Techgnosis Collective Launch Event: Gathering across 3 cities internationally
September 2024
This event marked the official launch of the Techgnosis Collective, a new creative initiative exploring how technology, spirituality, creativity and the human experience intersect. It took place simultaneously in London, Rotterdam and Brussels, with each gathering hosted by one of the collective’s co-founders. Although we were in different cities, the groups were connected through a shared, silent presence that shaped the atmosphere of the evening.
The session opened with a guided meditation to bring everyone into a sense of grounding and intention. Afterwards, we introduced the Techgnosis Manifesto and began a conversation about what it means to move through the digital age while protecting the integrity of the human mind, body and spirit. The discussion naturally widened into questions around AI, digital culture, spirituality and creativity, with participants contributing their own experiences and reflections.
To close the evening, we worked together on a collaborative mapping activity that invited everyone to visually explore the ideas within the manifesto. Held at TheLondonMine in London, alongside the parallel gatherings in Rotterdam and Brussels, the launch brought together both physical and virtual space to form the beginnings of an international community focused on conscious technology use, creativity and shared human potential.
The event laid the groundwork for future workshops, retreats and exhibitions dedicated to digital wellbeing, ecological awareness and collective spiritual connection in an increasingly automated world.
Retreats
Digital Detox: ‘Mind, Body, Spirit ‘ Co-creation Retreat
October 2024
The Techgnosis Collective hosted a three-day immersive retreat in Belgium, bringing together artists, researchers and practitioners for an offline residency focused on reconnecting the mind, body and spirit away from the constant pull of the digital world. Co-organised by the founding members, the retreat offered a rare space for deep rest, presence and communal exploration of digital wellbeing and embodied living.
Over the course of the three days, participants moved through a programme of grounding practices and reflective sessions. There were guided meditations, breathwork, Yoga Nidra, mindful movement and long walks through the forests and around the lakes. Conversations unfolded naturally around technology, attention and embodiment, and workshops invited the group to consider more conscious ways of relating to their digital habits. Evenings were spent in circles, over shared meals and in simple community rituals.
Phones were handed in on arrival, which created a gentle sense of freedom and allowed everyone to settle fully into the rhythm of the group and the landscape around us. The retreat centred on building digital resilience, embodied awareness and a feeling of collective belonging, while opening a space to consider how we might live more consciously with technology in everyday life.
Held near Brussels, the residency marked an important moment for the Techgnosis Collective. It brought the ideas of the manifesto into lived practice and helped strengthen the foundations of a growing international community rooted in presence, creativity and care.