»MINDSCAPE« 
Light Box
Light Box
© Claudia Robles-Angel / VG Bild und Kunst
Keywords
Information
Claudia Robles-Angel >
»MINDSCAPE«, 2016 - 2019
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.
https://vimeo.com/203785884
Technology
Hardware
EEG interface OlimexArduino 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 OlimexSoftware
MAXArduino
Sound
octophonic sound (8.1 audio channels)
Descriptions & Essays
Claudia Robles-Angel 12-09-2021
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
Claudia Robles-Angel: MINDSCAPE, 12-09-2021, in: Archive of Digital Art 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
Literature
Robles-Angel, Claudia. »The Human Body as an Audiovisual Instrument..« Sound and Image Aesthetics and Practices. Andrew Hill editor, Routledge. ISBN 9780367271466. 1st (2020): chapter 21.
Scheige, Gerardo.. »Der Klang des Köerpers.« Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , no. 2018/03 (2018): 56.
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