Brainloop Mode #1

Brainloop
www.aksioma.org/brainloop

Brainloop is an interactive performance platform that utilizes a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system which allows a subject to operate devices merely by imagining specific motor commands. These mentally visualized commands may be seen as the rehearsal of a motor act without the overt motor output; a neural synapse occurs but the actual movement is blocked at the corticospinal level. Motor imagery such as "move left hand", "move right hand" or "move feet" become non-muscular communication and control signals that convey messages and commands to the external world.
In Brainloop the performer is able - without physically moving - to investigate urban areas and rural landscapes as he globe-trots around virtual Google Earth. Through motor imagery, he selects locations, camera angles and positions and records these image sequences in a virtual world. In the second half of the performance, he plays back the sequence and uses Brainloop to compose a custom soundtrack.

Author: Janez Janša (SLO -I)
BCI performer: Markus Rapp (A)
BCI supervisor: Reinhold Scherer (A)
Programmer: Suncica Hermansson (HR)
PD programmer: Seppo Gruendler (A)
Sound designers: Brane Zorman (SLO) and Seppo Gruendler (A)
Executive producer: Marcela Okretič (SLO -E)

Production
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana (2004-06)
www.aksioma.org

Project supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana

Co-producers
- Dept. infromationsdesign - FH Joanneum - University of Applied Sciences
- Institute for Knowledge Discovery, Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Graz University of Technology

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• aksioma
• brainloop
• brain
• computer
• interface
• tug
• bci
• joanneum
• art
• newmedia
• intermedia
• grassi
• janša

[drcanoro]

that's SO future!

they should have connected the demo to an hologram projector instead of a screen.

I wonder if as data can be provided by the brain also some input can be obtained to the brain.. imagine all the knowledge of the internet directly to your brain.

"ask the guy anything you want to know"

[pylgrym]

Eine Kleine ErdeMusik! Vielen Kank!