under the watermark, 2021
Immersive audio-visual EEG Installation using Emotiv Epoch Sensor, Python, and Touchdesigner
The body-powered installation digitally animates participants’ inner ecosystems through a complex web of virtual systems. Virtual body signals materialize through a feedback loop between the environmentally-modified body and the bodily-modified environment. The artwork utilizes BCI technology, machine learning software, audio, and visualizations to facilitate an embodied reflection on how the sensorial body attunes, intra-acts, and materializes within a dynamic virtual network of complex interactions between human and nonhuman agents. It is an invitation to navigate the nuanced ways intra-connections between somatic technologies, the central nervous system, and the environment affect sensory experience, embodied cognition, consciousness, and sociocultural behavior. For full sound click here.
Art Direction and Sound Design: ashley middleton; Visual Design: Bileam Tschepe; Software Engineer: Anna Mechlińska and Agnieszka Czeszumska. Funded through the generous support of Arts Council England and OpenBCI