I attended Nina Sobell’s talk on the intermingling of the functions of the brain and how the internet is able to create art through this sort of means. Elements of non-verbal communication heavily influenced Sobell’s interpretation of the world and the way she implicated her work and designs. Energy is also a common theme in her ideas as she works towards optimizing what can not be seen into works of tangibility. This association relates a visual application to the unconscious and works as an electronic medium via brain wave drawings. These brain wave drawings render EEG interfaces through electrical impulse by the brain in which two people can see physical and mental images and create a single composite brain wave. In doing this, the aim was to view physcophilosphical aspects of the brain. This work was also meant to connect the physical and cyberworld.
“BrainWave Drawings”
Moreover, Sobells’s ongoing desire to visualize her surroundings and make more intimate connections led her to inner workings of meditation, memory, dream and fantasy. Participants were asked to write about a memory and a dream they had just experienced. Their voices served as a database and mixed with their heartbeats. The brainwaves of EEG were shown and their meditations were written and accounted for. People made one minute drawings per four minutes before a solar eclipse; the drawings were found to match up respectively. This experience of viewing the eclipse was profound in that people became closely connected as a result. This could indicate that they even felt the emotions during their viewing and expressed it though the similar images they composed. In all, the interactions between humans were better understood.
“Seance: Meditation”
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(1 Attendance Screenshot + 2 Images from Event + 3 Sources)
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Sobell, N. (2022). BrainWave Drawings. Zoom. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
Sobell, N. (2022). Seance: Meditation. Zoom. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
Sobell, N. (n.d.). HISTORY: BRAIN WAVE DRAWINGS. About: Brain wave drawings. Retrieved June 8, 2022, from http://www.ninasobell.com/ninasobell/history_brainwavedrawings.html
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