Neural Mediation: Instrument of Perception as Spectacle, Narrative, and Method
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- The Madness of Methods: Emerging Arts Research Practices
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- Neural Mediation: Instrument of Perception as Spectacle, Narrative, and Method
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Panel: The Madness of Methods: Emerging Arts Research Practices
Drawing upon theoretical works in cognitive science, affect theory, and science fiction, I will analyze contemporary and historic representations of neural instrumentation throughout a variety of media formats, including a personal interactive animation project. I will contextualize these representations of perceptual inquiry across interdisciplinary frameworks, highlighting suggested fantasies associated with each form. I will show how uses of body-based sensors present the corporeal and cognitive systems as narrative spectacle. As perceptual tools and methods are appropriated from the sciences, new arenas of hybrid design research practice are established.
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