MIND OVER MATTER
Keeping the world in balance using collective brainwaves.
This art installation combines peoples brainwaves.
The better people keep their focus together, the cleaner and purer the world becomes.
If they lose their focus, the world spins out of control into a world full of pollution, plastic waste, and other environmental issues.
Design legend David Carson and interactive artist Thijs Biersteker present their collaborative installation Mind over Matter. The installation showcases Carson’s first interactive artwork in his long career. Controlled by your brainwaves, the installation demonstrates that if we keep our focus on the right things in life, the world does not spin out of control.
Our world today is more fragile than ever. Something we have a hard time putting our mind to. David Carson and Thijs Biersteker show you what happens when we lose focus on the most important thing in life, our ecosystem. Driven by collective brain waves with the use of EEG’s, the audience controls a giant spherical installation. When they maintain a calm, meditative state of mind the world stays in balance. However, when one person loses focus the planet spurs out of control into a collage of waste explosions, floods and pollution clouds.
Mind over Matter explores how we can overcome challenges by focusing collectively on one thing. It symbolises the materialisation of our thinking and empowers people to believe in their ability to change something in this world for good, as long as they keep their focus on it. The interactive art experience immerses the audience in their materialised collective state of mind, and allows them to co-create the piece together with the artists.
Real time brainwaves controlling the artwork
Carson’s new collage art style has been put in motion using randomised algorithms. Driven by the brainwave data, of theta and beta waves, well known for reading the meditative state of mind, the piece has a direct response to the brain activity of the spectators. The analog designs are woven together in an elegant pattern.
“The combination of some of my new work, done by hand, takes on a refreshingly new dimension and meaning when combined with this state-of-the-art technology. Both makers enjoy working with our hands, and I think our passion for what we do comes through in this collaboration. While it’s fascinating to watch other brainwaves on the screen in front of you, nothing I know of is quite like the experience of actually putting on the headset and seeing the results of your brainwaves.”
Commissioned by
ADCN
Collaboration
David Carson
Technical production
Daniel Schotsborg, Bas Van Oerle , Thijs Biersteker
Production
Marlies Olbertijn, NewWerktheater
Film
Roland Pupupin, Martin v/d Veen
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