What amazing works of art the brain can create!
The human brain is a truly amazing thing! It conducts electricity through its neurons and neurotransmitters, and those electrical signals are detected as thoughts, feelings, emotions, sights, sounds, scents, and so much more!
To Lia Chavez, New York City-based American artist, the brain is a tool for art…
The artist connects a brainwave sensor to her head, detecting the brain waves that mean her brain is thinking, feeling, and hearing. She sits deep in meditation for hours on end, allowing the brain wave sensor to create the art for her. The brainwave sensor is connected to a strobe light, which flashes brightly when the artist is deep in meditation. The intense flashing light appears like a lightning storm, and it is the artistic expression of a brain deep in a meditative state.
Of course, during the lesser, intermediate states of meditation, the light doesn’t flash as brightly–indicating that the brain waves are far weaker than when in deep meditation. However, thanks to her skill at meditating, she can easily reach a fully meditative state in under a minute. The meditation triggers visions of storm systems and stroboscopic lights in her own mind, and thanks to modern technology, those visions can be shared with the world.
The visual performance artist is known for her creative work, and the latest masterpiece is no exception. The visceral experience is possible thanks to the technology created by Rehab Studio, which designed the code that detected the brainwave patterns sent by the sensor and turned those patterns into the visual expression of light. Thanks to the code, the strength and frequency of brainwave signals are controlled, interpreted, and transformed into the light show that truly expresses how Lia’s brain is functioning while in a deep meditative state.
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For her next project, Lia Chavez plans to find out just what happens to the brain at the moment when the creative spark of an idea is born. Science has yet to understand how the brain can create something out of nothing, but thanks to the brain wave sensors and the monitoring technology dreamed up by these artists and tech companies, it will soon be possible to discover the way the brain works. Connected to an EEG machine that monitors the electrical currents running through the brain, it may be possible to see what the spark of a new idea looks like–quite literally!
Lia Chavez isn’t alone in using her brain to create art. Ion Popian, a Romanian-born artist, has turned brain maps into 3D models, to be used in his latest art exhibit, “Mental Fabrications”. A brainwave sensor detects his brain signals, and customized technology turns them into 3D models that look similar to landscapes.
Angela Palmer, a British artist, has also turned the science of the brain into art, etching MRI and CT scans of her brain into glass and put on display. She considers these glass etchings to be a sort of “internal self portrait of her mind”.
The brain is a fascinating organ that science still has yet to understand. There is so much about the human brain that is still unknown, but thanks to these artists, we can discover a little bit more about our fascinating minds!
