Biogarden

2016

Uses readings from the brain monitor to change the scene in a shadowbox Read more

Using proprietary software to abstract EEG data into values understood by prototyping platforms such as Processing and Arduino, Biogarden uses readings from the brain monitor to change the scene in a shadowbox. As the software reads what its developers believe to be messages of “focus”, it sends signals to the microcontroller, which is attached to “muscle wire”. The wires, which contract when charged, lift flowers out of the vines in the scene.

This piece was installed at Felicita, the launch event for A Ship In The Woods in Encinitas, CA, June 2016.

Photographed from behind, a woman with straight black hair in a ponytail sits 5 feet in front of a black box with a scene depicted via silhouette: trees, flowers, vines. The scene is outside on a grassy patch in front of a brush.
A black box with a scene depicted via silhouette: trees, flowers, vines. The scene is outside on a grassy patch in front of a brush.
Photographed from the side, two white men and a black man sit, a white man stands behind them and looks at his phone. The black man wears an EEG headset and looks at a glowing black box. The scene is outside on a grassy patch in front of a brush.
A black box with a scene depicted via silhouette: trees, flowers, vines. It sits on a white workbench with tools, tape, a ruler, and hardware all around it.