Institutio Media invites you to take part in the workshop on collaborative experience around brain-to-brain interfaces. Travel and accommodation for participants from the Nordic-Baltic countries are covered by the organizers. For inquiries and registration please send an email to o-o@o-o.lt. The deadline for applications is February 23, 2022.
Workshop: @Alt lab & online, Institutio Media, Vilnius
With artists Mindaugas Gapševičius and Maria Safronova Wahlström
And neuroscientists Ian Erik Stewart, Amelia Young and Cristiàn Ruiz de la Era
10-12 March 2022
Mindaugas Gapševičius and Maria Safronova Wahlström will hold a three-days workshop on making headwear as part of You and I, You and Me project. The headwear will embed electronic circuits that use electricity as a possible form of communication between humans. The workshop will end up as a participatory event with the audience, who will be invited to speculate on possibilities of communication through electricity.
The project You and I, You and Me explores the possibilities of communication through electricity. The project proposes that electricity could help to reveal the imperceptible connections between different actors within the environment. How far could electricity help in understanding the other? Is there a possibility to alter human senses by electric impulses?
Mindaugas Gapševičius (LT/DE) explores the impact of non-human actors on human creativity and the impact of humans on the umwelt. Maria Safronova Wahlström (SE) is interested in social myths, and works with themes such as collective behaviour and linguistic practices that signal our social belonging. Ian Erik Stewart (DE) is a driven Neuroscience Researcher and passionate Science Communicator. Amelia Young (DE) is a neuroscience researcher seeking to connect to the larger community through art and neuroscience. Cristiàn Ruiz de la Era’s (ES/LT) research is focused on Clinical Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Biological Psychiatry.
More information about the project: http://triple-double-u.com/headwear/
Alt lab: http://www.o-o.lt/alt-lab/
Program
Preliminary program @ Alt lab (hands on) & online (public events)
10 March 2022
11:00-13:00 textiles & brain-to-brain interfaces. Maria Safronova & Mindaugas Gapševičius
13:00-18:00 hands on workshop
18:00-20:00 positions on brain. Ian Erik Stewart, Amelia Young & Felix Töpfer, and Cristiàn Ruiz de la Era
11 March 2022
11:00-20:00 hands on workshop
12 March 2022
11:00-18:00 hands on workshop
18:00-20:00 participatory event
Cristian M. Ruiz de Lara, is a translational researcher in the field of clinical neuroscience. With a background in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience, he is interested in how the brain supports emotions and self-related processes, with particular relevance to mental disorders. Combining decision-making theories with neuroscience techniques for a better understanding of brain dysfunctions in psychiatric disorders, especially addictions. Applying neuroimaging and electrophysiology techniques to disentangle interactions between the brain, cognitive functions, and behavior.
Ian Erik Stewart is a neurobiologist and electrophysiologist who studies the electrical activity of the brain related to cognitive and sensory processes in humans and animals. He asks what the electrical signals of populations of neurons can tell us about how we consciously perceive the world and our own selves – what is the bandwidth of consciousness? How well can we see and feel what is actually happening to us and around us? In previous work with EEG, he investigated the attentional limits of visual tracking, and discovered evidence for a reflexive change of attentional focus depending on our perceptive intention.
Felix Töpfer and Amelia Young will research fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy). fNIRS detects changes in brain blood oxygenation (and therefore activation) by picking up differences in how much light is absorbed and reflected back to optical detectors. What makes fNIRS advantageous is its portability, real-time capabilities, and potential for long-term monitoring. Felix Töpfer and Amy Young from NIRx will be sharing about the technology and applications. NIRx has been combining hardware and software into research solutions for near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) for 21 years.