“Short description:Anti-Apocalypse explores how the embodiment of memory in networked media influences how we re-/co-/create our worlds and our selves. The project creates an immersive digital cinema in which the mind-body of the spectator bares the task of enacting “worlds” as mediated by an EEG brain-computer interface, custom software, and a digital video database composed entirely of appropriated web content re/assembled as animated loops and remixed in real-time by their fluctuating brainwave rhythms. Oscillating between visual perception and mental observation, the viewer navigates a labyrinth of multiple, discontinuous, collective memories, exploring the disorienting and transformative liminal spaces between these virtual records, their material manifestations and psychic traces. Long description: Anti-Apocalypse sets the stage for the collapse of the subject/self by exploiting the visual perceptual system used to re-/construct identity and reality through the accumulation, assimilation, and recollection of images within the dominant framework of time. The project combines digital video, electroencephalograph (EEG) biofeedback, and custom software to create an immersive cinematic experience that can be altered by the viewer’s fluctuating brainwave activity. As participants watch the interactive video unfold in synchronization with their level of in-/attention, they are invited to reflect on contemporary events in an accelerating global crisis; narratives rooted in moral absolutism and collective annihilation; and the underlying forces embodied within the processes through which we co-author our realities. The real-time, interactive experience also prompts questions about the nature of individual autonomy and the increasingly entangled relationships between self and image, self and machine, self and the deterritorializing/reterritorializing forces that re-/produce the self, self and all past events leading up to and shaping the present-future moment.A custom program created in MAX/MSP/Jitter functions like a two channel video mixer set to crossfade indefinitely. While the video stream is perpetual (looping, always already on), the content itself is selected according to the viewer’s brainwave state measured in real time by an electro-encephalograph (EEG) brain-computer interface. As the viewer’s quality of in-/attention shifts in response to the content they are witnessing, they gain or lose access to different parts of the video database, making each “screening” both idiosyncratic and unique.”

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