Project Number

192

Title

Mind Garden

Description

Bio-feedback interactive art installation.

Contact

Paras Kaul

Affiliation

University of California, Santa Barbara

Address

Paras West Productions 
11714 Goshen Avenue, #204 
Los Angeles, California 90049

E-mail

parasw@well.com

WWW

http://www.leonardo.net/virtualdesign

Year

1997

Reference

SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings

Project Details

"Mind Garden is a three-dimensional audio, visual, and neurolinguistic journey through a fractal garden environment." 
 
"Using MindSet, a state-of-the-art interactive brainwave software, human brainwaves activate fractal forms, sounds, and words as objects in this VRML world. Results are viewable on the World Wide Web at the Mind Garden Web site: http://www.leonardo.net/virtualdesign" 
 
The project combines technologies associated with EEG, digital brainwave analysis, system design, the World Wide Web, and the synthesis of digital audio, visual, and linguistic media.

Sight

graphics workstation

Sound

amplified sound

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

EEG monitoring equipment, analysis software

Emergence

2 - Prototype, Components, Testing

Intent

2 - Technique (paradigm, human)

Primary

207 - bio-feedback / bio-control

Secondary

307 - art / commentary

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 


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