Ristiaallokko: Interactive Artwork using Muse

Searching for more pieces of information and references for my Research and Development subject is hard because making brainwave art into reality needs a lot of expertise in brainwave reading and EEG use knowledge, and to have an at least basic information of how to code the create the right algorithms, etc.

What makes it another struggle is that I honestly don't really know where and what to search for.
So far, I'm still waiting for the email reply from Mr. Michaud about the inquiries I asked last week.
I've also been searching for project examples people uploaded online that are similar to what I am doing.

I've found this project uploaded by laurames on Github.
The project is called Ristiaallokko | Cross Waves

Cross Waves is a sea state that occurs when two or more nonparallel wave systems meet. The waves generated by this phenomenon are dangerous to swimmers, boats, and ships caught between the crossing waves.

Cross Waves is also the name of the Spring exhibition of Aalto Media Lab students. It is an exhibition that highlights 13 new interactive artworks that have been created in the meeting point of art and technology. The exhibition is divided into two locations within the former Lapinlahti Psychiatric Hospital area: Mental Museum Pop-Up Gallery and the Venetsia building.

Ristiaallokko | Cross Waves exhibition is the outcome of the Interactive Art course taught by Matti Niinimäki in Aalto University. The aim of the course is to explore the notion of interaction within the context of new media art.

This is an interactive artwork using the Muse2014 headband. The artwork is built on top of MuseIO to access data and Muse command line tools to send data via OSC to OpenFrameWorks.

A landscape of people's thoughts.

The signal is a collaborative artwork that builds a landscape from the EEG collected from individuals’ current mental state. The thoughts are collected while the person is viewing the artwork.

A person will use the EEG headband, and the headband will translate the person's human brainwave and projects an abstract image as the picture shown above.

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