MINDSCAPE

Claudia Robles-Angel / VG Bild und Kunst
Source: Claudia Robles-Angel / VG Bild und Kunst

Claudia Robles-Angel

MINDSCAPE ,
Co-workers & Funding
Performance for Brain Waves, Light and octophonic sound, 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
MINDSCAPE is a metaphor of what we are becoming in this digital era. Like most people nowadays, the performer appears isolated and hooked up with a computer, his/her body connected to and surrounded by light wires, creating a distance between the own body and the environment, symbolising the desire to become a machine or cyborg that attaches artificial technologies to its own structure. The performer appears rigid on the stage, but her inner emotional states give continuously movement and transformation to the audiovisual environment.

In MINDSCAPE, the performer interacts with a light structure made by electroluminescent wires and sound via a BCI (Brain Computer Interface), which measures her brain waves, which create and control the light and sonic environment.

video Documentation: https://vimeo.com/203785884
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • acoustic
    • affective
    • immersive
    • interactive
    • performative
    • real-time
    • visual
  • genres
    • installations
      • performative installations
    • sound art
      • sound installations
  • subjects
    • Art and Science
      • light (energy)
      • machines
      • neuroscience
    • Body and Psychology
      • affect
      • bodies (animal components)
      • breathing
      • emotion
      • feelings
      • humans
      • perception
      • self awareness
  • technology
    • hardware
      • MAC
    • interfaces
      • body sensors
        • brainwave sensors /brain-computer-interfaces
    • software
      • software interfaces
Technology & Material
Hardware
EEG interface Olimex
Arduino boards
Installation Requirements / Space
The venue/space must either completely dark or as dark as possible.

Installation Site specific
Performance: The wires (ca. 5 m long each) surround the performer in a half circle (180°)
Interface
BCI / EEG Olimex
Software
MAX
Arduino
Sound
octophonic sound (8.1 audio channels)
Exhibitions & Events
Bibliography