China Blue Wong

MindDraw by China Blue in collaboration with Christopher Konopka and neuroscientist Seth Horowitz is a pioneering real-time interactive viewer participation work that enables people to create beautiful brain based images. Through the usage of an EEG data sensor brain waves are converted into stunning constantly fluxing images and sound. To engage the work, the participant  sits near the projection and simply dons the brainwave sensor headset. With the headset in place MindDraw enables the user to look into their own mind and see their internal world reflected in dynamic externalized patterns. And, although the brain wave frequencies monitor the conditions of attention, awareness, relaxation, sleep, and cognition, MindDraw shows how all of these elements emerge and interact in an intricate dance. 

With  MindDraw we are extracting one of nature’s most complex patterns, this is more than just a simple light and sound summation of brainwave frequencies but the epiphenomenon of the mind. 

MindDraw by China Blue is a pioneering real-time interactive viewer participation work that enables people to create beautiful brain based images.

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These simple-easy to use music applications were designed by Christian Cooley as stand-alone and completely programmed in Max/MSP. 

He has been designing Max/MSP patches for a while, and he wanted to share them with musicians over the Internet. Needless to say not all musicians are familiar with Max/MSP, therefore he decided to make a couple of stand-alones and give the opportunity to those who are unfamiliar with Max/MSP programming to play with friendly looking applications.

The main challenge was to make the patches with a professional ‘look’. So he spent time designing the interfaces and creating the applications as friendly as possible.

If the purpose of Max/MSP programmers is to share their patches, Christian Cooley wants to encourage them to take a little time and think about the look of their work in Max. He believes that interface design potentially helps to increase downloads of patches and applications. Consequently making the patches ‘prettier’ will definitely attract people to the Max/MSP world.

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