Brain Current

“That which was previously mentally projected, which was lived as a metaphor in the terrestrial habitat is from now on projected entirely
without metaphor ..”    Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication

This research takes place at the focal point where interactive audio-visual installation art joins today’s technologies of neurofeedback. The purpose of this study is to found new ways for multi-user spaces of interaction and communication based on human consciousness and ‘relaxed attention’ as operators, while furthering the concept of interactive installation based digital art, both theoretically, as well as experientially i.e. through creating / exhibiting / participating / networking / sharing this artwork. These multi-user spaces of interaction and communication will be rendered through the length of the research. The final conclusions of this study will be thus drawn upon both theoretical findings and the interactive installations. In this regard these entities not only strengthen but also challenge each other, as well as simultaneously intercommunicate the different levels of the very core/subject of this research: possibilities of rendering the ambient through conscious neural participation.

“The brain is unity. The brain is the screen. … The circuits and linkages of the brain don’t preexist the stimuli, corpuscles and particles (grains) that trace them. … The encounter between two disciplines doesn’t take place when one begins to reflect on the other, but when one discipline realizes that it has to resolve, for itself and by its own means, a problem similar to one confronted by the other.”   Gilles Deleuze, The Brain is the Screen

“For all the senses there is also the enigma of the nature of the first-person subjective conscious element. There is much more to hearing, for example, than mere vibrations. We do not hear a symphony as vibrations any more than we see a face as lines and contrast. … Another tantalizing and related mystery of the brain is why electrical signals arriving in the visual cortex should be experienced as vision, while exactly the same kind of electrical signals, arriving in another part of the brain such as the somatosensory cortex or the auditory cortex, should be perceived as touch and hearing respectively.”   Susan Greenfield, The Human Brain