Fish-to-Brain Interfaces, Antony Hall, Ljubljana
Contents
Enki workshop proposal / outline
Participants become experimental subjects investigating general issues around extra-perception, electro-physiology and ‘body as electrical image’ key concepts in Enki project.
Presentation on Enki
Activity: Demonstration of electrical organ discharge activity using phones as sound source for generating electrical field. Participants wear amp and loop to create electrical field to transmit like the fish, and using pickup coils to attempt to navigate and communicate without using visual perception.
Enki Activity: Interconnection to Enki experiment to test and explain electrical image concept.
extra perceptual systems in animals
Electro physiology activity: Using charts to map electrical levels on skin and body. Perhaps these can become part of the exhibition?
Discuss experiment results and ethics
Body image and perception activity: Perceptual experiments to show that self-perception, more specifically, the location of the ‘self’ is plastic and not concrete. Rubber hand experiment, and drawing exercises.
Material preps
GSR sensors? (contact Marc - salami sensor) 2-4 x Velman 12v 18w amplifiers £8-12 each – or make our own using Lm chips but that a whole workshop on its own. 1x roll of Electrical cable 2-4 x Mini guitar am style amplifiers £15 2x Pickup coils £12each
Printing large A3 charts to map volt meter measurements of skin votage and polarity. Discuss if this is noise or actual measurements.
