The EEGsynth
This weekend, Per and Samon stayed over at my new place. The new place is a big improvement: a lot more space, light and peace in which we can fall inside and engulf ourselves into the noise of our brain. In a “mini-residency”, we were able to get a lot of work done in two […]
For the occasion of the CuttingEEG conference at Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital), the art-science collective 1+1=3 created a special exhibition at the Charcot Library in which visitors could explore the aesthetic qualities of early scientific research in electrical (brain) activity. Books and illustrations were drawn from the personal library […]
We were very happy to work together with old and new friends on an avant-garde interdisciplinary art-science-food event: The Brain Brunch. It’s really hard to explain in words, but hopefully this video below will give you an impression.
1+1=3 was hosted by IKLECTIK for a short residency during which they developed a new performance using two EEG-performers interconnected via modular synthesizers, creating consonance and dissonance, change and order, in a push-and-pull of conscious and unconscious brain processes. The resultant work ‘Hemispherics’ was performed at IKLECTIK, on Saturday, April 28th, followed by a talk […]
Check our previous post for a bit more of a word-picture. Follow the events live at Radiobal.fr Photos (c) Vincent Rioux
A short reflection of how in the last three months we have started to transcend technology, and became art. The last two months have been busy times for the EEGsynth. I had planned this time as a bit of a break between jobs (I will start tomorrow at ICM, Pitié Salpêtrière analyzing inter-cranial recordings in […]
Wednesday, March 14th, 19:30 to 22:00Cycle de conférences à l’Ecole Normale SupérieureAmphithéâtre Jaurès, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris I left the Ecole Normale Supérieure barely two months ago, only to return with lectures on art and neuroscience, and an EEGsynth performance, as part of the program of the national Semaine du Cerveau (week of the brain). This was the […]
COGITO in Space, at TecArt 2018. February 10th, at location Worm We had a great time at TecArt, where Daniela de Paulis, Guillaume Dumas and I presented COGITO in Space, conceived by artist Daniela de Paulis, in an interactive installation. Participants could sign up to have their EEG recorded while, within the 3D space of the Oculus Rift, watched […]
Le Second Square makers fairFebruary 17-18 at Carreau du Temple, Paris We had a great time at Le Second Square, a makers-art fair full of interactive installations, presentations and shows. It was a fund and busy event, also helped by suddenly beautiful weather in Paris. On Friday the 17th, Samon Takahashi gave a presentation on […]
The EEGsynth is going into a busy phase of development and performance thanks to the hard work by the team since 2013 and a grant by Kulturbryggan. Here are a few of the things that will happen in the spring: From Feb 7-11 we will present the EEGsynth as part of the COGITO project at Techart in Rotterdam. We will […]
Robert and I updated and tested the COGITO setup at the upcoming TecArt festival in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where we will record EEG, transform it into sound in real-time, and then send those sound recordings into space using the 25-meter ASTRON radio telescope at Dwingelo, The Netherlands. It was nice to see everything work quite […]
We were happy and proud to perform at the opening of the visual art exhibit If Seeing is Believing, at Fullersta Gård (Huddinge, Sweden), curated by our long-time collaborator Susanne Ewerlöf. For us, this was a chance to exchange with the (visual) arts, and explore how sound and visual art can inform each other and create […]
If you are in Enschede, The Netherlands, this weekend, you can find the EEGsynth at the COGBOT festival for art, music and creative technology (7-10 September). At COGBOT can participate on the COGITO project, watch the amazing movie by Sandro Bocci while your EEG is recorded for interstellar transmission!
The event started with a brief introduction about the technology that is used as well as the underlying scientific, artistic and philosophical ideas. The three of us also talked about how medical hypnosis changes the allocation of attention and modifies the regular functions of cognitive control. Before the event began, Hernan had hypnotised Jean-Louis. The […]
We did it! See below the first EEG real-time coded into audio and sent into space with the Dwinglo radiotelescope at ASTRON, The Netherlands. Many inspired experts worked hard on getting us this far. Next step is to prepare the public performances, hopefully starting in November. For more info stay tuned here and on Daniela’s […]
A performance at the Se2017 conferenceKarolinska Institutet, Stockholm, August 13, 2017 Probing the Mind of Berzelius is an interdisciplinary artistic performance that will take you on a sonic dive into the discovery of selenium 200 years ago. The performance is developed by neuroscientist Stephen Whitmarsh (NL) with musicians Jean-Louis Huhta (SWE) and Samon Takahashi (FR). […]
For his second solo exhibition at Galleri Fagerstedt in Stockholm, Per Huttner shows a sculpture that uses an EEG-recording of his brain activity under hypnosis. The work is made up of curtain that covers the back wall of the gallery. The curtain is made of the same material as one of the characters in the […]
We have just arrived in Los Angeles, USA, kicking off our USA tour where we will work and perform together, connect with other artists and academics, give talks, host a session at a conference and reconnect with old friends. First of all, we couldn’t have been able to get it all together with the people […]