{"id":3679,"date":"2016-10-17T21:57:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T01:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artthescience.com\/magazine\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2019-09-09T11:31:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T15:31:21","slug":"creators-luciana-haill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artthescience.com\/magazine\/2016\/10\/17\/creators-luciana-haill\/","title":{"rendered":"CREATORS – Luciana Haill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Name: <\/strong>Luciana Haill<\/a><\/p>\n

Which came first in your life, the science or the art?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The art and a passionate fascination with human biology from an early age. My curiosity was fuelled by books at home about ESP (extrasensory perception) and the paranormal. I experienced a timeless absorption in my ability to manifest thoughts through drawings (way before any formal art education), mark making or reading. I later trained in fine art at Ravensbourne in the UK, and completed the first degree in Interactive Fine Art led by Roy Ascott.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Which sciences relate to your art practice?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Neuroscience, parapsychology, psychology, lucid dreaming, cybernetics and artificial intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

What materials do you use to create your artworks?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Primary tools are portable brainwave (EEG) monitors, specifically the IBVA BrainMachine that sends the signal from the EEG amplifier (worn in a camera bag) via Bluetooth to the laptop where the specialized software allows for amazing interactions on a computer with various software suites (<\/span>MIDI, MaxMSP, realtime sound control, FUGIO, Logic, Ableton)\u00a0<\/span>for generative compositions and interactive installations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Secondary tools are Brion Gysin\u2019s Dreamachine for inspiration and meditation and PandoraStar stroboscope with its software for user programmable customizations.\u00a0I also like analog signal generators to control scientific strobes. And I really love my rOtring pen set – their architectural fineness, reliability and the ink is permanent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Artwork\/Exhibition you are most proud of:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“Flickering Phrontisterion” :<\/b>\u00a0(Dream Machine\u2019s percipient EEG sonified)<\/span><\/p>\n

A Syncretic artwork first shown in 2014 at The Kinetica Art Fair in London. In this\u00a0interactive, participatory artwork the brainwaves of participants are monitored whilst experiencing a classic kinetic\u00a0sculpture spinning atop a record player known as a “Dream Machine”, invoking the phenomena Flicker (8-10 hz cycles) via neurofeedback. The resulting increased hypnagogic and hypnopompic brainwaves of Alpha and Theta are fed-back to the participant as changes in the generative sonification.\u00a0Emergent sonic guides and voices recede, new ideas come to the fore, in\u00a0a secluded space, eyes closed, reclined in an air-pumped dentist chair, they float back down, where time disappeared \u2013\u00a0 experiencing reverie, increased Theta waves. Written and verbal visitor feedback elicited by my assistant, present in the\u00a0installation describes increased relaxation, refreshed creativity, journeys, and non linear thinking (and never, ever actually asleep!)<\/span><\/p>\n