Posts Tagged ‘performance’

Bindu Point: Telecommunication with the Mythic Present

By Joshua Madara on January 8, 2010 | Categories: Blog | Tags: , | No Comments

The “Bindu Point” project applies technology in the creation of a hyper-dimensional performance environment. Camera input to motion detection software feeds a generative parenting algorithm which outputs a layered stream of synthesized drones in response to the movement of the performer. Performer, musician and the system itself form an organic feedback loop, both triggering input and responding to the resulting audio and video output.

The Einstein’s Brain Project

By Joshua Madara on May 19, 2009 | Categories: Blog | Tags: , | No Comments

[…] is a collaborative, immersive, virtual, and augmented reality work that explores the notion of the brain as a real and metaphoric interface between bodies and worlds in flux, and that examines the idea of the world as a construct sustained through the neurological processes contained within the brain. It suggests that the world is not some reality outside ourselves, but that it is the result of an interior process that makes and sustains our body image and its relationship to a world, and that the investigation of virtual reality, its potential use as a perceptual filter, and its accompanying social space is an exploration of the new constructions of consciousness and the consequent technological colonization of the body.

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Consciousness can be explained as the maintenance of an ongoing descriptive recursion which we call the "I." It enables us to converse our linguistic operational coherence and our adaptation in the domain of language. » Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding