Brainloop

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

[denito9474]

I give you about two years until you look back and laugh at the fact that you said "what's the point?" at a demonstration of computer-brain interface, like someone saying 'what's the point?' when they saw a demonstration of two computers networking with eachother with no foresight into the value of the internet.

[werkplace]

I am not sure who did this, btu I have to give you major props for getting inspiration for the style from Front Line Assembly's "Mindphaser" movie. It would be great to see Golan Levin, Marius Watz, FLA, NSK/Liabach and the Blue Man Group(for publicity value) do a performance collaboration with this.

[radiootoo]

Seppo Marvuloso Mysterioso! But "console" is mispronounced.... but a thing of neurons is a joy forever!

[shnackhag]

dude this is fucking awesome. they over did it tho with using a bot to describe what's going on

[someman7]

Thanks. It's great. Too bad it's not free tho.

[nowayride]

The synthesized voice? Meet Alex, the OS X speech synthesis.

[matatoe]

goodbye to the mouse and keyboard!

thanks god.

still alive jhajhajha

[someman7]

Currently, I'm even more fascinated with the speech-to-text software heard in this vid.

aksioma007, can you tell me what it is?

[eliaen]

There have already been demonstrations of brain-computer-connections, but this one does something necessary and good: it utilizes the possibilities into something handy, so everyone may understand it's benefits. Or can try to imagine them in a few years. Well, except jtjjbannie...

[hughtub]

Probably the dumbest post I've ever seen on youtube.