michelle huang
NEUROTECH x ART
Building mental mirrors for the world around us
playful education initiatives around mental health via art
SCALING WONDER
I use EEGs to shorten the feedback loops between research and creation through immersive storytelling.
I'm interested in researching how to better represent the "unseen" internal experiences in the external world, so they can be more readily perceived and shared among others as a common language.
This category of research could pave the way for technology in assisting us in greater connection and collective empathy.
Neurotechnology will act as a "seeing tool" to understand mental health in the same way that microscopes have been used for biology. It has the ability to help us understand the human psyche, especially as it relates to digital measurement in neuroscience and consciousness research.
Real-life mood lighting
I created a "thought cube" — an art piece that makes more obvious the link between internal states of mind and the external world.
This cube, which changes based on mental state, represents how much the perception of physical reality warps based on more liminal thoughts and emotions.
Created by programming LEDs to pulse blue when I am relaxed (capturing specific brainwave states streamed via an EEG that I am wearing).
Distorting virtual objects with brainwaves
This is an exploration in the interplay between virtual and physical: manipulating digital objects with physical sensations and emotions.
Created by streaming brainwaves captured from EEG via OSC to my Max software. I process my brainwaves in real-time, so that the more relaxed my state, the faster the object distortions become.