Alechemists – Radical Atoms https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en Ars Electronica Festival 2016 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:26:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Trāṭaka https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/tra%e1%b9%adaka/ Thu, 11 Aug 2016 10:41:12 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=1399 Alessio Chierico
Trāṭaka is an interactive installation based on a brain-computer interface. Trāṭaka is a Sanskrit term meaning “to gaze” and it refers to a meditation technique for concentrating one’s attention on a flame.]]> Alessio Chierico

Trāṭaka is an interactive installation based on a brain-computer interface. Trāṭaka is a Sanskrit term meaning “to gaze” and it refers to a meditation technique for concentrating one’s attention on a flame.
The work is composed by a brain-computer interface that detects the brain waves and defines parameters such as the level of attention. Wearing this device, the user is invited to concentrate their attention on a flame in front of them. The level of attention detected by this system, controls an air flow under the flame: a higher level corresponds to a faster air flow. The interaction process is aimed at user engagement to increase their attention in order to put the flame out. This will happen when the highest level of attention is reached: the air flow becomes strong enough to extinguish the flame.

This installation aims to create a context where users are motivated to explore their concentration abilities, with a “calm” interaction materialized by the movements of the flame.

]]> Implant https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/implant/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:34:59 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=1314 Eric Dyer
Implant is an imaginary medical device that fits into a blood vessel, neuron, etc. It is super-enlarged, making the viewer feel microscopic. With a genetic retinal disease in his family’s DNA, Dyer has closely followed developments in gene therapy, including the insertion of healthy genes into the body using viruses.]]>

Eric Dyer

Implant is an imaginary medical device that fits into a blood vessel, neuron, etc. It is super-enlarged, making the viewer feel microscopic. With a genetic retinal disease in his family’s DNA, Dyer has closely followed developments in gene therapy, including the insertion of healthy genes into the body using viruses. With Implant he plays with the paradoxical threat and promise of bleeding-edge, anatomically invasive and potentially rampant medical practices. Viewers explore the cylindrical spinning sculpture with hand-held strobe lights, discovering thousands of colorful, fluffy, and sinister nanobots performing unknown tasks and a spiral of organic-synthetic gears inside the tube.

Imaging Research Center, University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, USA
Creative Capital

This project is presented in the framework of the European Digital Art and Science Network and co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.

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