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with Matthias Oostrik, Than van Nispen (HKU), Suzan Tunca (ICK Amsterdam)

In Harmonic Dissonance: Synchroni(cit)y two dancers explore “meaningful coincidences” (Jung) between bodies and minds. Can we become “one” with another person? Are we “one” with ourselves? Through the choreography of Pieter Scholten and Emio Greco, we question notions like the mind-body duality and the “dual utopia” of togetherness. more | video

with Matthias Oostrik, Arnoud Traa, ICK Amsterdam

In Harmonic Dissonance, groups of visitors are guided through an ever-evolving social network generated by their brainwave and motion synchrony. By challenging its audience to either obey or disregard the patterns of light flowing through space, Harmonic Dissonance explores the friction between social interdependence and individual agency. More

MindHive is a community neuroscience platform for:

• students & teachers who seek authentic research experiences,

• scientists who seek to address their research questions outside of the lab,

• community-based organizations who seek to carry out grassroots research for policy change

MindHive aims to contribute a healthy science ecosystem, engaging users in the full range of scientific inquiry, that is, the making of science. MindHive is funded by the National Science Foundation

with Matthias Oostrik, Peter Burr, Diederik Schoorl, Pandelis Diamantides

Enclosed by an intimate capsule and immersed in an audiovisual environment that responds and reflects their shared brain activity, two visitors can directly experience and manipulate their internal efforts to approach or distance themselves from each other. During the experience, greater brainwave synchronization is reflected in greater vividness and more coherent and recognizable audiovisual patterns, while lack of synchronization strays towards dark audio-visual chaos: a faint ringing in the ears and static in the retinas. More

with Brain Vision, Phoebe Chen, Dana Bevilacqua, Matthias Oostrik

In Ondas, we collaborate with rap artist Residente in his search for common ground with various musicians with whom he doesn’t have anything in common at first sight. Brainwave synchrony between Residente and the collaborators are translated into sound patterns which will be incorporated into the album’s tracks.

The first EEG session was recorded with Brain Vision in April 2019 with the Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny. The song Bellacoso was released in the summer of 2019.

my favorite clip of the session | full teaser | press release

I use a real-world ‘hyperscanning’ neuroscience approach to investigate how our brains and bodies support naturalistic learning.

With Lauren Silbert, Jennifer Silbert, Matthias Oostrik, Oliver Hess, Amanda Parkes

Compatibility Racer is a competitive, interactive brain-robotics installation in which brainwave synchronization is translated into the speed of a cart: the more in sync participants' brains, the faster the cart moves along a track. More

with David Poeppel, Dana Bevilacqua, Lu Wan, Mingzhou Ding, Lisa Kaggen, Ido Davidesco & Matthias Oostrik

Mutual Brainwaves Lab is a simple, scaled-down neurofeedback interactive that tracks and visualizes brain-to-brain synchronization as two heads merging in and out of each other. Compared to the other projects, the emphasis is tilted toward the educational potential of visualizing brainwave synchrony in real-time: the playful environment is intended as a family-friendly neuroscience educational tool, with an emphasis on raising awareness about the scientific process, and the state of neuroscience research more broadly. More 

Measuring the Magic of Mutual Gaze restages Marina Abramovic' durational performance piece The Artist is Present (MoMA, 2010) as an interactive art installation/neuroscience experiment investigating the relationship between human connectedness and brainwave synchronization. During the experience, two participants sit opposite each other and engage in mutual gaze for 30 minutes while their EEG signal is recorded and visualized in real time. Whenever the participants' brainwaves oscillate in synchrony, this is shown through a lightning animation connecting the two model brains. [click on image for more info]