The EEGsynth is a collaborative project, including contributions from many, and in many different ways. The EEGsynth is initiated by 1+1=3, an artistic collaboration between Stephen Whitmarsh, Jean-Louis Huhta, and Per Huttner. During workshops and performances in Stockholm, Paris, Athens, San Diego, and Tucson, we began to connect with more people who have since started collaborating on many aspects of the project. Most notably, Robert Oostenveld has become the architect and main contributor to the real-time EEG software, and the input from Guillaume Dumas with his expertise in hyperscanning has been invaluable. We have also been developing the EEGsynth within the Brain Control Club at the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity under the co-supervision of Ignacio Rebollo. All of us contribute and share in our own important way, be it with code, artistic direction, new and exciting ideas, testing and debugging, inspiration and support. In short, the most active contributors to the EEGsynth are, in no particular order:
Dr. Stephen Whitmarsh is a neuroscience researcher and artist, current at the ICM Institute in Paris, where he studies epilepsy using chronically implanted EEG electrodes (iEEG). He holds a MSc in psychology from the University of Amsterdam (2005), a PhD from the Donders Institute for Cognitive Neuroimaging, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2012) and an MA in Art and Media Production (2015) from Linköping University, Sweden. Together with Per Hüttner, he has been part of Ouunpo since its conception in 2009, and together with Elena Nemkova and Susanne Ewerlöf recently organized the 14nth session in Stockholm.
Dr. Ir. Robert Oostenveld is Principle Investigator and MEG Physicist at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, as well as associated researcher at NatMEG, the Swedish National Facility for Magnetoencephalography at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. His main interest is in developing novel methods for the analysis of MEG and EEG data with applications in cognitive neuroimaging. His scientific contributions include signal processing, source reconstruction, connectivity analysis, and statistical analysis. He is a world-renowned authority on the methodological aspects of cognitive neuroimaging exemplified by his leadership in the development of the open-source analysis software FieldTrip.
Jean-Louis Huhta is a Copenhagen-based artist, composer, musician, and DJ. He studied at the Electronic music studios EMS in Stockholm and Sound art at STDH. Specialising in electronic music, percussion, improv, experimental modular synthesizer performances. He has been a part of the world of Techno and Acid since the early 90’s. He has composed for contemporary dance, film, and theatre and performed around the world solo and with various projects. He participated in the Gothenburg Biennal 2013, The Ghetto Biennal Haiti 2013. Current musical projects are Dungeon Acid, The Skull Defekts, Ocsid, Brommage Dub and High Boys. Record labels include FitSound Detroit, Huhta Home studios, Ideal Recordings and Zodiac.
Per Hüttner is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm and Paris. He was trained at Konsthögskolan, Stockholm and at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. He has shown extensively in Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia, solo exhibitions include “>unkown” at Zendai Contemporary in Shanghai, “Repetitive Time” at Göteborgs Konstmuseum, and “I am a Curator” at Chisenhale Gallery in London. Participation in group shows includes Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM); Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Hayward Gallery in London, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, MACBA in Barcelona and he has performed at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Pinacoteca, and the Venice Biennial. A dozen monographs on the artist’s work have been published in the last decade. Hüttner is the founder and director of the Vision Forum, a project-based international experimental research network.
Samon Takahashi is a French visual artist and musician. He lives and works in Paris. He has previously exhibited at e.g. the Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris), Laxart (Los Angeles), ICA (London), De Vleeshal (Middelburg), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Spiral Wacoal Art Center (Tokyo), CNEAI (Chatou), and MNAC (Bucharest). He is a founding member of the mobile laboratory OuUnPo since 2009, a founding member of the improvised music band GOL since 1989 and is hosting the radio show Epsilonia on Radio Libertaire (Paris) since 1993.