SIRO

A Mirror of THE Mind

TO BE RELEASED 2021

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Siro is an interactive installation that renders the participant’s brain-activity data into three-dimensional abstract visual and atmospherically surrounding audio. It is a partially guided tour for a single participant.

How a person may feel and react to an external mirror image of his/her mind remains a question. I see it not only as a mission for neuroscientists but can also be approached from an artistic point of view. I want to explore with Siro the usually invisible connections between the conceptual inner world and the physical outer world while only using the brain-activity data as a metaphor to “the mind” and a controllable tool for interaction. Just like a well-written science-fiction that doesn’t represent the scientific facts but makes the readers imagine. With Siro, I want to create for the participant an artistic journey with a scientific background.

Siro One-pager
Siro Design Document

 
 

Siro Teaser

 

Siro Current Visual (November 2019)

This is the current visual design of Siro recorded from a volunteer’s session.
To have Siro giving the sense of a natural organism, we turned it monochromatic
and fine-tuned the sensitivity of the data reception of each channel.

 
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The logic behind the linkages between the EEG channels and the different visual aspects (September 2019)

 

Sample Five Channels (August 2019)

All five channels are connected.

 

(June 2019)

Beta channel is connected to colour. Delta Channel is connected to shape.

 

Alpha - Speed (May 2019)

The first data streaming from the Muse 2 headset to the computer.
We connected the Alpha channel to the speed of the moving image.
Recorded from a volunteer’s session.

 

Choosing Puffersphere Pro + Customized Screen for projection solution (May 2019)

 
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Choosing Muse 2 EEG headset to work with (April 2019)

 
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Installation Set-up Design (April 2019)

 
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Concept Walk-through (March 2019)

 
Second Concept drawing (February 2019)A Monolithic being does not have to be in the Monolith shape. Siro transforms its shape to fit the vision of a drop of water captured in the middle of the air.

Second Concept drawing (February 2019)

A Monolithic being does not have to be in the Monolith shape. Siro transforms
its shape to fit the vision of a drop of water captured in the middle of the air.

 
First Concept drawing (January 2019)Influenced by movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, Siro began as a Monolith elevated from a pond of water.

First Concept drawing (January 2019)

Influenced by movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, Siro began as a Monolith elevated from a pond of water.