Feel alive — Feeling

Day Three & The second part

Ran Zhou
Ran Zhou
Sep 2, 2018 · 3 min read

Idea

An installation designed to trigger people’s feelings of everything around them and themselves will be created in this part of the project.

I want to visualize the feelings of the person. So maybe detecting the brainwave is a good way to achieve it.

  • External feeling

Including sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. These senses can become active with some external stimulations.

  • Internal feeling

Meditation can be a good way to achieve internal feeling. Here is a sample of meditation below (begin in 4:50).

People are able to reach the inner peace and get the internal feelings of their body by following the voice guidance. In the guidance, it always ask people to lie down on the floor, concentrate on their breathe and try to relax one specific part of their bodies in one time. Finally, reaching an entirely release physically and mentally. During this process, people will have deep feelings of their bodies and spirits.


Rules

Visitor will lie on the human shape on the floor wearing a EEG headset. Headset can detect the brainwave. He will listen to the meditation guidance to calm down. He begin to take his awareness to each part of his body following the guidance from toes to head. When he concentrates on one part of the body, take the foot for example; there will appear a specific pattern around the foot, and the pattern will move in specific rhythm according to the brainwave of the visitor.

On the ceiling, there is a large mirror. So the visitor himself can see the pattern around his body in the mirror. There is also a camera which will record the entire process. And the visitor can watch the video when he comes back from the “Surviving Space”.

After meditation, visitor will get some external stimulation like sound, smell, touch and sight. The change of his brainwave due to the stimulation will be reflected in the rhythm of the pattern on the floor.

Reference

Patterns from the internet
Projects from TeamLab

Modeling


Technology

Wireless EEG headset

I will use the wireless EEG headset to detect the fluctuation of the brainwave.

The patterns will be created by processing or open framework. Each part of the body and breathe will have their own pattern.

The pattern will be projected to the floor from the ceiling.

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