Fish-to-Brain Interfaces, Antony Hall, Ljubljana
Contents
Mentor
Antony Hall
Antony Hall (UK), who loves to do Tabletop Experiments, works on various projects and participated at the Hackteria Lab - Dock18 - 6-9 April 2010.
Assistants
tba
Target audience
students high-school / university, geeks, emerging artists, hackers, educators
Date & Time
11:00 - 16:00
24. November, 2012
Registration
limited place to particpate, max 12 people.
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.
Electro perception
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.
'Brain hacking'
Basics of 'bio-feedback' and optical brain machines and 'audio entrainment' - Electro physiology; Using charts to map electrical levels on skin and body - Exploring GSR response and linking this to optical brain machine
'Self' perception. Seeing is believing
Low-fi. Humans are primarily visual in their thinking to such an extent the human mind can easily be tricked using just this sence. Experiments have shown that we can be tricked into thinking we are actually outside our own bodies. We will explore simple perceptual experiments show that self-perception, more specifically, the location of the ‘self’ is plastic and not concrete. Where do we locate our selves? This question is interesting when considering the Electric fish extended electro physical body. How can humans adapt to extra perceptual modifications.
- Rubber hand experiment can be done with any fake hand. More interestingly you can make your own hands from clay or fill rubber gloves with material. This allows us to question practically are the limits of our own perceptual systems; What can we trick our own minds into physically believing?
- Drawing exercises can tell us a lot about how we physically perceive our selves.
Discuss experiment results and ethics
Material preps
- GSR sensors? Are we ok to use salami sensor kit for this? I use sound output to go direct to sound to light circuit - aka bio feedback brain machine
-need foil for sensor? -velco
- 4 x Velman 12v 18w amplifiers £8-12 each – [i will bring these]
- 1x roll of Electrical cable, [use for making loop]
- 2x Pickup coils £12each (we'll get some...)
bag of Clay for making new hands Rubber gloves, latex gloves,
Printing large A3 charts to map volt meter measurements of skin votage and polarity.
