Brain Art Brain-Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression
This is the first book on brain-computer interfaces (BCI) that aims to explain how these BCI interfaces can be used for artistic goals. Devices that measure changes in brain activity in various regions of our brain are available and they make it possible
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Brain Art Brain-Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression
Brain Art
Anton Nijholt Editor
Brain Art Brain-Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression
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Editor Anton Nijholt Human Media Interaction Faculty of EEMCS Universiteit Twente Enschede, The Netherlands
ISBN 978-3-030-14322-0 ISBN 978-3-030-14323-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14323-7
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Foreword
Anton Nijholt meets the pivotal need of charting the multiple ways in which artists have strategically challenged existing uses of EEG technology while unveiling its aesthetic and social implications. The term Brain Art has come to be associated with the use of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) for artistic expression. It relies on the transmutation of neural signals into realms of sounds and images that render the internal workings of the mind perceptible. A cornerstone of my career as an artist has been the exploration of what is now known as BCI, brain–computer interface. When I first heard the term, I thought it meant Brain Communication Interaction because that was what I had been working on for so long. In the early 1970s, after experimenting with an alpha wave feedback unit, I sought to create an internal and external video portrait of two people by dissolving images of their brain wave oscillations over their faces as their interaction was being simultaneously videotaped. What intrigued me was showing what often happens beneath the surface as people communicate with each other—at invisible brain level and at gestural level. I began concentrating on expressing visually the synchronous and asynchronous relations established between th
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