Art Inspired by Neuroscience | EEG and Interactive AV Installation Methods Research 2012-
Lectures Art & Neuroscience Masterclass with Balázs Knakker neuroscientist | Art Inspired by Neuroscience Lecture, Immersive Space | Immersive Mind Conference, LAM, 2024 | 12 HERTZ Exhibition, Lighthouse, Kollab, Budapest, 2024 | LUX_US Exhibition, based on Dream Machine Experiences, Light Art University Course, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department 2022-2024 | EEG and Audiovisual Workshop, University of Pécs, 2019 | Brain Mapping workshop at AVOS, Audiovisual Open Studios, Budapest 2014 | Audiovisual and Interaction with EEG, during Media Design University Course, Metropolitan University Budapest, 2017-2022 | Brain Waves and Audiovisual Art Lecture, Researchers Night, A38, Budapest, 2013 | Brain mapping Lecture, Expanded Vjism - LPM Budapest showcase, AV Open Studios, 2013 | SENSORBREAKERS with Réka Harsányi at The Doctoral School of The Hungarian University of Fine Arts 2011-14
Research at: Hungarian University of Fine Arts Doctoral School 2012-
Exhibitions: 12 HERTZ 2024 curated with Viola Lukács and Gábor Kitzinger and Lighthouse
Artworks in Art Inspired by Neuroscience field: Solar Vibrations 2023, Flicker 2024, The Tools of Experience 20172024, Oasis 2021-23, Luminous Spots 2020-24, Brain Crystal 2013, Artworks in Monochrome Clack group
Immersive Space | Immersive Mind Summer Masterclass 2024
I organized a Summer Masterclass for Light Art Museum Budapest in the summer of 2024. I wrote a concept of how to connect EEG data, datavisualization and immersive space projections. The IMMERSIVE SPACE | IMMERSIVE MIND masterclass based on an interdisciplinary strategy, focusing on innovative forms of contemporary art and complex methodological thinking based on a synthesis of fine art and the latest creative technologies and engineering design. We created a 3-dimensional projected space in a unique, zeppelin-shaped installation, based on data visualisation of the participants’ brain activity. In addition to the organisation we teached together with Balázs Knakker neuroscientist the EEG Lab part.
Places: AQB Nest, Light Art Museum, Capa Center
Detailed description
The program:
DAY 1: IMMERSIVE SPACE | IMMERSIVE MIND CONFERENCE PROGRAM
SPACE SECTION
Takeshi YAMADA (JP): teamLab Interactive immersive experiences
Dr. habil. Zoltán SZEGEDY-MASZÁK DLA (HU), artist: Immersive Spaces in Interactive Art – from a Historical Perspective
Susan KOSTI (AUS/HU), international media artist and multimedia director: Design in Immersive Environments
DATA SECTION
Gábor KITZINGER (HU) media artist: On the making of ‘Fake News Apostles’ with Barabási Lab
Richard VIJGEN (NL), data artist: Visualising the infosphere – online
Heleen BLANKEN (NL) and Tim GROENEBOOM (NL): Digitising Nature
NEURO SECTION
Endre Lehel PAKSI (HU), art historian: MUSEUM OF THE MIND theory introduction PART I. Modernism as neuroscience: a quest for understanding the human brain’s visual data processing in painting after the widespread of photography from the second half of the 19. Century – online
Réka HARSÁNYI DLA (HU), media designer and experimental-video artist: Biofeedback and Audiovisual – Sensor based multimedia projects
Balázs KNAKKER PhD (HU), neurobiologist: The Art of Neuroscience – The Neuroscience of Art
Andrea SZTOJÁNOVITS DLA (HU), artist, researcher: Experiments in Art inspired by Neuroscience with a focus on recreation and chill spaces in artistic practice
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION – Immersive spaces from a museum perspective
Participants: Barnabás BENCSIK (HU), Gianluca del GOBBO (IT), Benedek VARGA (HU), Adorján TÓTH (HU)
DAY 2-7: SPACE LAB | NEURO LAB | DATA LAB
INTENSIVE PRACTICE-BASED MASTERCLASS
DAY 2
SPACE LAB | Takeshi YAMADA: teamLab Masterclass – Behind the scenes
teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.
NEURO LAB | Andrea SZTOJÁNOVITS artist, researcher: Neuro-visualization and Art
– Brain waves and artistic visualization: installation examples, ways.
– Concepts and strategies to use brain data in art through artistic analysis of installations use EEG data and real time neurofeedback
NEURO LAB | Balázs KNAKKER neurobiologist: Introduction to recording, analysing and understanding EEG
– Tools and technologies to record EEG
– What EEG can and cannot tell us
DAY 3-4
On these 2 days, participants will work in 3 groups in each section: NEURO LAB, DATA LAB, SPACE LAB.
NEURO LAB | Section leader: Balázs KNAKKER neurobiologist
Section assistant: Andrea SZTOJÁNOVITS, artist, researcher
– How to use EEG sensors to record brain activity
– EEG sensor installation, testing, recording through visual stimulation.
– Data analysis and cleaning processes
– Overview of methods to transform and decompose EEG for artistic purposes
DATA LAB | Section leader: Gábor KITZINGER (HU), new media artist (using the TouchDesigner software)
– Basic concept of how to turn data into visual
– Methods for data visualization in TouchDesigner
SPACE LAB | Section leader: Viktor VICSEK (HU) light artist
– 3D space and perception
– Technical bases, definition and measurement of the zeppelin-shaped installation
– Optical basics
– Perspective transformations
– Engineering processes and simulation in the virtual space
DAY 5-6
On these 2 days, participants will work on their own data visualization projects.
DATA LAB | Section leader: Gábor KITZINGER (HU), new media artist (using the TouchDesigner software)
Guest teachers: Machiel VELTKAMP (NL)
– Creating data visualization content, from concepts to real
– Conversion of data into control signals and software simulation of the 3D system
SPACE LAB | On Friday late afternoon project testing in the Zeppelin
DAY 7
Project FINAL day
SPACE LAB | Section leader: Gábor KITZINGER (HU), new media artist
– System testing in the zeppelin-shaped installation
– Finalization of the projects
VENUES:
Research background
„Many visual artists gain inspiration from psychology and neuroscience, and quite a few use existing or newly acquired data in their artistic process. Interdisciplinary collectives that bring together artists, scientists, and technologists offer an ideal environment for those who strive to find a way to create artwork that is authentic both from an artistic and a scientific perspective. One such interdisciplinary effort is the ‘12 Hertz‘ [1] initiative, launched in early 2024 in Budapest, Hungary within the Lighthouse collective of light- and new media artists, curated by artists Andrea Sztojánovits, Gábor Kitzinger and curator Viola Lukács. The initiator of the 12 Hertz exhibition, audiovisual artist Andrea Sztojánovits, senior lecturer from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts has been commissioned by Light Art Museum Budapest to curate a one-week masterclass in the summer of 2024. Building on her research on the connection of art and neuroscience, she developed the concept of the ‘IMMERSIVE SPACE | IMMERSIVE MIND’ masterclass centered on the use of electroencephalographic data as a basis of a visual installation set in the unique, zeppelin-shaped immersive projection environment of the museum. She in turn brought EEG researcher Balázs Knakker from the University of Pécs on board to work together on the neuroscientific and neurotechnological part of the course." Balázs Knakker
