Version 1.1 of the Tobii Eyetracker Extension for Presentation - 31.07.2009

Version 1.1. of the Tobii Eyetracker Extension for Presentation can be downloaded from the Download-Page.

Brainloop and VisionSpace at the WIRED NextFest - Follow Up - 2007-09-24

: Markus Rapp performing live

The presentation of Brainloop at the WIRED NextFest in Los Angeles was a big success.

Many visitors stopped by at our booth during live performances to get more detailed information about Brainloop and how it works.

Brainloop and VisionSpace at the WIRED NextFest - 2007-07-27

Aksioma has been invited to present its media perfomance Brainloop at the WIRED NextFest together with VisionSpace.

The WIRED NextFest will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from September 13th to September 16th 2007 and is one of the worlds largest events in the area of future technologies. This year it focuses on The Future of Communication, Design, Education, Entertainment, Exploration, Green, Health, Play, Robots, Security, and Transportation.

Aksioma presents Brainloop - Follow Up - 2006-12-16

: Brainloop in action

The presentation of Brainloop within the VisionSpace was a real success. All visitors were enthusiastic about the presentation and the concept of the media performance by Janez Janša and his collegues.

Aksioma presents Brainloop - 2006-12-14

The 14th of December 2006, Aksioma will present the media performance Brainloop, its latest production realized in collaboration with the Institute for Knowledge Discovery, Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Graz University of Technology (TUG) and the Department of Information Design, FH JOANNEUM - University of Applied Sciences, Graz.

Brainloop is an interactive performance platform that utilizes a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system which allows a subject to operate devices merely by imagining specific motor commands. These mentally visualized commands may be seen as the rehearsal of a motor act without the overt motor output; a neural synapse occurs but the actual movement is blocked at the corticospinal level. Motor imagery such as “move left hand”, “move right hand” or “move feet” become non-muscular communication and control signals that convey messages and commands to the external world. In Brainloop, the subject, Markus Rapp, is able – without physically moving – to investigate urban areas and rural landscapes as he globe-trots around virtual Google Earth. Through motor imagery, he selects locations, camera angles and positions and records these image sequences in a virtual world. In the second half of the performance, he plays back the sequence and uses Brainloop to compose a custom soundtrack by selecting, manipulating and re-locating audio recordings in real time into the physical space.

The work results from a multi-year collaboration between Slovenian media artists and Austrian scientists. Its author is the Slovenian media artist Janez Janša, which in the past has been focusing on similar topics realizing the project Brainscore - incorporeal communication together with the artist Darij Kreuh. Responsible for the BCI application is Reinhold Scherer from the BCI-Lab of the TUG.

More information about Brainloop can be found here.

VisionSpace goes online - 2005-04-30

During the last weeks two students of the Information Design degree programme (Thomas Radeke and Christian Lepenik) at the FH JOANNEUM implemented the website for the VisionSpace project. During development of the website the focus was laid on accessibility and on compliance with web-standards.

The VisionSpace project of the FH JOANNEUM - Supported by FFG within the FHplus programme