| Title: |
| Wave
UFO |
| Artist(s): |
| Mariko Mori
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| Brief description of the work: |
| Immersive
interactive installation that visualised participants' brain waves
as graphhic symbols and colours |
| Materials, dimensions, duration: |
| 11
m long pod with ElectroEncephaloGraphic sensors projection facility
for light and image display |
| Location (venue & dates, public/ private):
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The work was custom-built in Turin in an automobile factory, premiered
at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, March 2003
and exhibited at the Public Art Fund in New York May 8 - August
8, 2003
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| Audience information (size, mode of participation): |
| Three viewers
at a time watch a projection on the ceiling. Each viewer is wearing
electrodes, which gather brainwave data. This information is transformed
into visual imagery and projected onto the screen. |
| Other information (reviews, collaborators, funders): |
| Wave UFO was
also shown at the Venice Art Biennale |
| Floorplan, scheme:
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| Visual/ audio-visual reference: |
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| Key theme(s): |
| Intense engagement
with a body; observing externalised internal processes; immersive
play |
| Further context: |
| The display shows
"six undulating bio-amorphous cells that represent the left and
right lobes of each of the three participants' brains. A waving line
moves in correspondence with blinks and other facial movements. The
forms change shape and color in response to three types of brainwaves.
Alpha (blue) waves indicate wakeful relaxation, Beta (pink) waves
indicate alertness or agitation, and Theta (yellow) waves indicate
a dreamlike state. Two cells coming together demonstrate "coherence"
between the two lobes of the brain. Mental functions such as thinking
in other languages or doing math problems immediately transform the
characteristics of the graphics." (Mori online) |
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