[Nettime-bold] ZKM/Performance

[Andrea Buddensieg <buddensieg@zkm.de>]

ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
2003-02-17

  

Darij Kreuh and Davide Grassi : »Brainscore« [2000]
Interactive 3D Performance[in the context of the exhibition FUTURE
CINEMA] 

Sat-Sun, February 22 & 23, 2003
ZKM-Media Theater, 5 pm | admission free 

The Brainscore project by media artists Darij Kreuh and Davide Grassi
deals with the research of communication patterns and the interface
enabling the human body and the global information space to connect. It
is a performance for two operators, in which incorporeal communication
is used as the starting point for creating a controlled communication
system. The system is based on the use of brain waves and eye movement
for performing basic commands while defining a new digital discourse in
virtual space without using the traditional and generally established
ways of communication [thus, socially recognized and conventional
communication codes are abandoned – speech, body gestures etc.]. 

The operators, positioned parallel to each other so that they do not
face each other, establish a communication testing ground, within which
they are trying to create a dialogue with the help of 3D objects. Each
operator is represented, in the space of virtual reality, by a matching
avatar that embodies primitive behavioral characteristics and form, at
least in the initial phase. The operators’ task is to »educate« their
corresponding representation in virtual space by performing a series of
operations and commands, which are set up in direct relationship to the
global net dynamics [macro] and the user’s neuronic net [micro]. 

Visual immersion of the viewer will be enabled with the help of
polarization glasses. They will be able to experience the perception of
computer-generated events as the presence of reality in the spirit of
the perception of the third dimension. 



-- 
Dr. Andrea Buddensieg

Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Leitung
Head of Public Relations

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