Kissing Data Symphony

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Kissing Data Symphony
Sat. 3. 7. 16:0017:00

EEG Performance by Karen Lancel (NL) & Hermen Maat (NL)

Can a kiss be translated into bio-feedback data? How does your kiss feel in E.E.G. data? Artists’ duo and researchers Lancel/Maat critically investigate social/sensory connections, privacy, empathy, vulnerability and trust when mediated by Multi Brain Computer Interfaces (Multi BCI).

During internationally shown performance-installations, people are invited to experience a shared kiss, as an intimately co-created, reflexive data-scape. Acts of kissing are re-orchestrated for a poetic, digital synesthetic ritual. In live kissing experiments with Multi BCI E.E.G. headsets, visitors are invited as Kissers or Observers. During kissing, their brain waves are measured. Real-time, their streaming E.E.G. data encircle them in a floor projection. Simultaneously, the Observers brain waves are measured, their neurons mirroring activity of intimate kissing movements, resonating in their imagination. Both Kissers’ and Observers’ data intimately co-create an immersive visual, reflexive data scape, translated to an algorithm for a soundscape – a ‘Kissing Data Symphony’.

Kissing Data encourages shared agency to explore, co-create and co-interpret intimate BCI data, to share dialogue and reflection on ethical design concepts. In this poetic, Multi BCI mediated social synthesis, each unique E.E.G. data soundscape is saved to be downloaded and appropriated by all visitors. A selection of data-visualizations is printed as a ‘Portrait of a Shared Kiss’. In 2019, the work was awarded the prize of the Global AI Art Competition (GAAC), Tsinghua University, China.

Karen Lancel

Artists and researchers Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat (Lancel/Maat, based in Amsterdam) are considered pioneers exploring the tension between embodied presence, intimacy and alienation, social cohesion and isolation, privacy and trust in posthuman bio(techno)logical entanglement with (non-)human others. In internationally presented performances and installations in public space, they explore a sensitive, ethical AI design approach, based on social and embodied co-dependency in shared reflection and dialogue. 

 

Hermen Maat

Artists and researchers Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat (Lancel/Maat, based in Amsterdam) are considered pioneers exploring the tension between embodied presence, intimacy and alienation, social cohesion and isolation, privacy and trust in posthuman bio(techno)logical entanglement with (non-)human others. In internationally presented performances and installations in public space, they explore a sensitive, ethical AI design approach, based on social and embodied co-dependency in shared reflection and dialogue.

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