Cocoon / MIT Media Lab, Fluid Interfaces Group (US)
Cocoon transplants ongoing research at the MIT Media Lab’s Dream Lab into the electronic arts context. We will perform live experiments that focus on tracking, influencing and extracting content from dreams. We present three custom-built wearable electronics for sleep science which make this interface across levels of consciousness possible: Masca, Essence and Dormio. Our wearables gather eye, heart, brain, breath, muscle and skin biosignals for sleep staging and in turn output smell, audio and electricity to manipulate the dreaming brain. The intersection between signals and stories where we work, between concrete inputs and the algorithms which abstract them in the mind, offer a unique meeting point for scientific regiment and experiential art. The nightly dissolution of our perceptually grounded experience into dreams, and the clear signals associated with them, link science and the imaginary.
Credit: tom mesic
Cocoon / MIT Media Lab, Fluid Interfaces Group (US)
Cocoon transplants ongoing research at the MIT Media Lab’s Dream Lab into the electronic arts context. We will perform live experiments that focus on tracking, influencing and extracting content from dreams. We present three custom-built wearable electronics for sleep science which make this interface across levels of consciousness possible: Masca, Essence and Dormio. Our wearables gather eye, heart, brain, breath, muscle and skin biosignals for sleep staging and in turn output smell, audio and electricity to manipulate the dreaming brain. The intersection between signals and stories where we work, between concrete inputs and the algorithms which abstract them in the mind, offer a unique meeting point for scientific regiment and experiential art. The nightly dissolution of our perceptually grounded experience into dreams, and the clear signals associated with them, link science and the imaginary.
Credit: tom mesic