WEB-MINDSCAPE

Claudia Robles Angel / VG Bild und Kunst. Photo: Image Festival Manizales
Source: Claudia Robles Angel / VG Bild und Kunst. Photo: Image Festival Manizales

Claudia Robles-Angel

WEB-MINDSCAPE ,
Co-workers & Funding
Interactive installation for brain waves, tweets, octophonic sound and light. Created during an artist in residence at IK Foundation Flushing supported by Mondriaan Fonds.

Technical support: Andreas Gernemann-Paulsen-Paulsen, Musicology Department University of Cologne.
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Description
WEB-MINDSCAPE is an interactive installation joining diverse aspects, such as social network, sound, brainwaves and visual elements. It creates an immersive audiovisual environment, which is site-specific, where sound is diffused in surround, and the visual elements consist of light produced via electroluminescent wires (EL wires).

Visitors are invited to interact with the audiovisual environment (light and sound) by using a BCI interface, which reads their brain activity. Thereby, they are confronted to messages from a social network (in this case, Twitter). The tweet messages are turned into audible sound, and the computer measures thereafter the cerebral activity of the visitors, and analyses their emotional reactions to both the environment and the tweets, transforming this data into visual and audible signals, which reproduce how the inner of the subject is influenced by the outer environment and at the same time, having an impact on the installation’s audiovisual environment.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • acoustic
    • immersive
    • interactive
    • real-time
    • visual
  • genres
    • installations
      • interactive installations
    • sound art
      • sound installations
  • subjects
    • Art and Science
      • algorithms
      • light (energy)
      • machines
      • neuroscience
    • Body and Psychology
      • emotion
      • feelings
  • technology
    • hardware
      • MAC
    • interfaces
      • body sensors
        • brainwave sensors /brain-computer-interfaces
    • software
Technology & Material
Hardware
Emotiv Insight BCI interface

Arduino Light system (Electroluminescent wires)
Software
Emotiv
MyndYourOsc
Max
Arduino
Sound
octophonic sound (8.1 audio channels)
Exhibitions & Events
Bibliography