Neuroflowers is an interactive biofeedback-based art piece.
With Neuroflowers, the internal becomes external. Participants have the option to control the behavior of robotic flowers, either with their brain or heart.
By wearing an EEG headset, which reads electrical currents from the surface of the head, we can determine different mental states, which then guide the behavior of illumino-kinetic magic flowers.
The mind becomes tangible, shareable. Calming or focusing your thoughts changes the blossoming state and color of the flowers. Your mental state is able to create visible changes in the physical world.
By placing one's hands on the embedded electrodes in the hand grips of a hand-grip heart rate monitor, we can use ECG to measure a person’s heart rate by registering the small electrical signals carried across the surface of a person’s skin each time his or her heart contracts. These signals cause the flowers to pulse with different colors and to bloom.
Your heart rate becomes visible and visceral as you are able to control the speed with which the flower pulses with light, whose color and level of saturation reflect the speed of one's pulse and HRV (heart rate variability).
Neuroflowers is a project by Ashley Newton, which she received funding for during the winter of 2014-215 from the Market Street Prototyping Festival to create a temporary public art installation on Market Street in San Francisco.
The robotic flowers used in the neuroflowers project were developed by Ashley Newton and Sean Steven, as part of the Sustainable Magic project.
We will be turning the magic robot flowers into a Kickstarter later this year, so please join the Sustainable Magic email list to be kept up to date, and like the Facebook page.
By wearing an EEG headset, which reads electrical currents from the surface of the head, we can determine different mental states, which then guide the behavior of illumino-kinetic magic flowers.
The mind becomes tangible, shareable. Calming or focusing your thoughts changes the blossoming state and color of the flowers. Your mental state is able to create visible changes in the physical world.
By placing one's hands on the embedded electrodes in the hand grips of a hand-grip heart rate monitor, we can use ECG to measure a person’s heart rate by registering the small electrical signals carried across the surface of a person’s skin each time his or her heart contracts. These signals cause the flowers to pulse with different colors and to bloom.
Your heart rate becomes visible and visceral as you are able to control the speed with which the flower pulses with light, whose color and level of saturation reflect the speed of one's pulse and HRV (heart rate variability).
Neuroflowers is a project by Ashley Newton, which she received funding for during the winter of 2014-215 from the Market Street Prototyping Festival to create a temporary public art installation on Market Street in San Francisco.
The robotic flowers used in the neuroflowers project were developed by Ashley Newton and Sean Steven, as part of the Sustainable Magic project.
We will be turning the magic robot flowers into a Kickstarter later this year, so please join the Sustainable Magic email list to be kept up to date, and like the Facebook page.