Turning Raw Memories Into Abstract Art

Upon researching more on examples of brainwave arts, I came across a Mashable article by Gianluca Mezzofiore (June 24, 2017)

Random Quark is a London based company, who believes in bridging technology and art and making people happy by experiencing them with immersive interactive arts.

Random Quark enjoys transporting people to a place of fun and colour; somewhere they can forget about their troubles for a while.

One of the amazing works Random Quark did is called The Art of Feeling.
Random Quark was approached by Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness Agency to create a machine that produces digital paintings by translating human brainwaves.

Random Quark wanted to make the digital paintings come alive and astound as many as possible. That’s when we turned to the science of flocking birds to create a unique and complex painting.

The machine measures the asymmetry between left/right hemispheres as well as the overall activation of the brain (alpha/beta/gamma waves) and plots the data in a 2D valence-activation graph which is known as the Geneva Emotions wheel where all the human emotions are plotted.

These paintings are so precious because people who tried this machine actually offers a specific memory like "the birth of my son" or "cage diving with sharks in South Africa", and all the paintings are unique and different and no two paintings can be of the same shape and colors.

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