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When creating the visuals for my final project, I was inspired by a 'Spectrum to TOPs' tutorial created by Bileam Tschepe on Youtube (I did a post about it here ). The tutorial teaches the audiences explicitly to convert an audio spectrum directly to TOPs using the CHOP to TOP and compositing. Since Bileam Tschepe used audio as the source information for the visuals, I changed the former portion of the tutorial from audio data into OSC data (blog post  here ). Since OSC and Audio data are in the CHOP section, and to create visuals are in the TOP section, a 'CHOP to TOP' node is required. Initially, the node is represented by one pixel high and in black and white; to adjust it, simply change the data format if necessary (for the color), and adding a composite node changes the pixel size. A Noise node is added because it is responsible for the output resolution of the project. The Noise node is also where the author attaches the OSC data in the transform section. This all...

Braintone Art is a software created by a Dallas-based company that allows users to create a unique piece of art using their brain's focus picked up by an EEG headset. On the website , the company states that the "information streams wirelessly in real-time through the Braintone Art Imagery Generation Engine to project your emotions as abstract artwork on the digital canvas." Not just emotions that show up on the canvas, people are encouraged to express their creativity as well. The software has two different art styles and a selection of different color palettes to choose from. The brainwave element is added by tying people's brain activity to the virtual paintbrush via the EEG headset. To learn more about the process click here . Brainwave arts have been around for quite a while. A few known artists - not to mention scientists and communication experts - have tried and create art and work using brainwave technology, but this is the first to make it so easy...

This blog post will summarize the proposal for my final project. Translating Memories. A brainwave art installation. This project is based on a lot of things, but mainly from making art that is personal, unique, one-of-a-kind to the person involved in making it, because the art is created by their own personal memory. It will also allow people to express their feelings with the correspondent memory without having to say it out loud. The projected image will consist of abstract visual created by the combination of lines, shapes, and colors that follows the Geneva Emotion wheel . The Geneva Emotion wheel has been commonly known by psychologists to determine what human emotions are represented by what color and plotted on a 2D valence-activation graph. This project doesn't really have any particular target audience. Anyone and everyone are welcomed. Art enthusiast or just the curious mind. The value that I believe when creating this project is it is still uncommon to us...

After three weeks of waiting, Mr. Maxime Michaud finally returns a lengthy reply. Maxime is very kind upon answering my questions. He even offered his Master's thesis to me - even though it is in French, it is a huge help to get it from him. Below are the questions and answers directly from our email interaction. 1. First of all, can you introduce yourself, where are you from, and what type of work do you do? Well, I guess my English bio sums it all. If you need more specific infos, let me know. Otherwise, I’m from Montreal (QC), Canada. I’m currently a freelancer, mostly doing audiovisual work, live visuals and sound. Here’s my bio bellow ( https://www.maximemichaud.com/bio-en ) : And a selective Resume ( https://www.maximemichaud.com/cv-en ) Transdisciplinary artist. ~ Audiovisual /composition /music /performance /video /biofeedback /installation /digital et al. Born in the early 90s. Aquarius, Libra ascendant. Described as kind and creative. Was part of the de...

Earlier this week I mentioned an interactive art I found that uses the Muse headband as their EEG reader. It is called Ristiaallokko. The creator (or someone related in working on the project) shared the codes to Github . They also clearly state that they are using a 2014 Muse headband. They said that they: build it on top of MuseIO to access data and Muse command-line tools to send data via OSC to OpenFrameWorks and they are building the project on Mac. However, if you check the official  MuseIO website , you will notice that Muse said that they are currently not supporting the MuseSDK. Basically, we cannot download the MuseIO or access the Muse command-line officially from Muse. (Which is the most important application to get this project running) Then I scoured the internet and found someone posted the MuseLab content to be downloadable ( here ). Note that the version provided is only compatible with macOS Mojave (version 10.14.5) and under, cause I tried downloading ...

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 Sprin...

Last September, I reached out to one of the artists mentioned by Dr. Sara Diamond, during her visit to Singapore for the ArtxTech Canada @SG event.  His name is Maxime Michaud and he is from Canada. When I found his website online, I decided to contact him if there would be any chance that I could ask him a view questions about his work. A few days had passed before I finally got his reply. Surprisingly he was eager to help me out. Even offered to come to Singapore if there is the opportunity. We then emailed back and forth for a bit to discuss the best option for him to share his work. However, I pitched the idea to my lecturer and I still haven't got any response. Nevertheless, I still asked him a view questions to help me clarify my curiosity. Attached below is the email I sent to Maxime, including the questions I'm curious about. Within days, he replied to me that he will try to answer my questions within the next two weeks. He also offered to shar...

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 p...

One of the terms I learned during the Art x Tech Canada @ SG seminar was Brainwave Arts . It is a type of art that uses human's brainwave as a key player on an art installation. And I think it fits the description of the project/topic I'm choosing. When you google brainwave art, there are several well-known projects made by artists. However, brainwave arts are still not as common as other types of arts. This is because: to do brainwave arts, the artists need to have an interest or knowledge or the urge to learn some part of science as well. Mostly, brainwave arts lean towards types of arts that plays with human's emotions or thinking, since the brain is where we control everything. Brainwave arts are considered more fluid and indefinite as well since everyone's mind will think differently, even when presented the same object. One of the coolest brainwave arts I came across is: Making a song with repurposed brainwaves , by the creator of the show Sense8 on Netflix....

On the 22nd of September, 2019, Art x Tech Canada  did a seminar in Singapore's The Arts House. The seminar was free, and our class went there to listen to experts from Canada talk about the art world meets digital technology.  The event took quite some time. It started at 2pm, followed by opening remarks and a keynote address about the whole event by Dr. Sara Diamond, president and vice-chancellor of Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD University). Then before the actual seminar starts, we all had a coffee break together. The first part of the seminar took about an hour, followed by a rapid question and answer for the rest 20 minutes. It was about 'Creating a Digital Arts Ecosystem', and the speakers (Roch Michel – Media Creative Director of GSM Project, Henry Faber – President of the Toronto Media Arts Centre Boards, Kezia Toh – Senior Manager of DigiMuse from National Heritage Board Singapore, and Eric Lefebvre – Director of Devel...