Comprising data paintings, augmented data sculptures and light projections, Refik Anadol’s “Melting Memories” (2018) debuts new advances in technology that enable visitors to experience aesthetic interpretations of motor movements inside a human brain. Each work grows out of the artist’s impressive experiments with the advanced technology tools provided by the Neuroscape Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco. Anadol gathers data on the neural mechanisms of cognitive control from an EEG (electroencephalogram) that measures changes in brain wave activity and provides evidence of how the brain functions over time. These data sets constitute the building blocks for the unique algorithms that the artist uses to create the multi-dimensional visual structures on display. This installation was presented during AURORA 2018 in downtown Dallas.
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