1. Language of Praise

    Building Synthetic Agency is an entry point into a limitless poetic space of human agency amplified by technologies both material and immaterial.  It functions as one node in the larger Neuroprosthetic Research System, which will be built out from the core functionality developed for this piece. 

    The major influence on this body of work are the early investigations of the body into space by Rebecca Horn, notably her various fan pieces that ranged in scale from head sized to body sized.  These decidedly material engagements sit in contrast to the influence of Stelarc’s technologically mediated yet similarly expanded body. 

    Janine Antoni’s Slumber also serves as a model for long term performance installation work that involves EEG data, however in contrast this work uses that data as a control mechanism.  For this we turn to pioneers in BCI artworks which emerge from audio proejcts like Alvin Lucier’s 1965 Music for Solo Performer, in which alpha waves triggered vibrations in percussion instuments through to interactive works like Mariko Mori’s Brainwave UFO.

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