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 …