Mind the Brain!

From the Delimitation Series: Me and My Brain!

Location based VR Installation

Let your mind go live!

Our brain. A miracle of precision, networks, control centers, chaos, poetry, structure, sounds and colors. Our brain is the almighty tool of individual and collective narration. We offer the individual human being and a group of participants access to their own brain. Science and art go hand in hand to make it possible to enter the cathedral of my own soul with the latest technology. Based on scientific brain models - generated through supercomputing - as well as especially developed patterns of interaction, we experience a visual spectacle of our neuronal world.

We are in the universe of the beginning and the end. We interact with our brain. Or it interacts with us. Where does free will come from? Is the fictitious only fictional? Or is there no separation between reality and fiction in the brain?

 After the personal experience of a stroke, we went on a path to discover the secrets of the brain and its incredible powers together with neurologists and artists. While art can draw insight from science; the poetic side of the brain also offers amazing insights to modern neuroscience. Together, we want to make it possible for everyone to leave the normal structures of narration in order to make the richness inherent in all of us stand out.

 For the first time, people will wander in their brains in wonder, interact and experience the almighty power of their own narration. A unique, magical approach to the essence of man.

Oliver Czeslik and Kathrin Brunner, 2021

Mind the Brain! Details:

• DOF VR Experience

• Oculus (Rift S) & Windows Mixed Reality

• Neuroreactive Interaction via BrainAssistant Software (optional)

• Innovative Interaction & Camera Systems

• Duration: 25-35 mins
  (variable, depending on interaction)

• Binaural Sound available

Funded by

Impressions from Me & My Brain Open Labs

Partners

Human Brain Project 3DPLI Group at Forschungszentrum Jülich brainboost Neurofeedback Bauhaus Universität Weimar awaike GmbH

Exhibits

Me & My Brain has been developed in a series of Open Labs together with the public.