BrainWave Drawings 2025
GammaTime

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The GammaTime installation visually represents and sonifies one to four participants’ brain waves onto a large scale video projection. Whenever each participant reaches a state of 40 Hz gamma brain activity, their section of the tableau lights up in response with a combination of light, sound, and real-time data. A dynamic background of geometric color fields, with sampled and synthesized sounds, react to gamma, beta, alpha, and theta brain waves that participants will be able to recognize. There are individual biofeedback loops in the media that are mixed together by both software analysis and installation design (e.g. a shared viewing screen and spatialized audio) that couple each person's senses to everyone else's brain wave activity as well as their own. The project seeks to inspire a visceral, experiential discourse between art and neuroscience regarding altered states of consciousness and emerging cognitive health benefits associated with gamma brainwave frequencies.

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Synesthesia
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Curator: Chloe Vaitsu

 

California Video
Getty Research Institute
Curator: Glenn Phillips

 

Brain Streaming

Ebb & Flow - Turbulence.org
With Sonya Allin and Jesse Gilbert
Temporarily Unavailable

Chris Matthews Studio - Venice, CA

Chateau de Sacy, France
Anne Bean : English Channel
Curator: Hermine Demoriane

NYU Center for Advanced Technology Courant
Jack Schwartz

Seances
Walter Phillips Gallery
Banff Centre
Curator: Jon Tupper

Bronx River Art Center Gallery
Curator: Amir Bey

Banff Center for the Arts
Sara Diamond

VA Neuropsychology Lab
Dr. Barry Sterman