Brainloop
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Brainloop is an interactive performance platform that
utilizes a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system which allows a subject
to operate devices merely by imagining specific motor commands. These
mentally visualized commands may be seen as the rehearsal of a motor
act without the overt motor output; a neural synapse occurs but the
actual movement is blocked at the corticospinal level. Motor imagery
such as "move left hand", "move right hand" or "move feet" become
non-muscular communication and control signals that convey messages
and commands to the external world. In Brainloop the performer is
able - without physically moving - to investigate urban areas and
rural landscapes as he globe-trots around virtual Google Earth. Through
motor imagery, he selects locations, camera angles and positions and
records these image sequences in a virtual world. In the second half
of the performance, he plays back the sequence and uses Brainloop
to compose a custom soundtrack by selecting, manipulating and re-locating
audio recordings in real time into the physical space. 
"The Self-Paced Graz Brain-Computer Interface: Methods and Applications" [ENG]  Reinhold Scherer, Alois Schloegl, Felix Lee, Horst Bischof, Janez Janša and Gert Pfurtscheller Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, vol. 2007 Article ID 79826, 9 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/79826 Hindawi Publishing Corporation Brainloop author: Janez Janša | programmer: Suncica Hermansson | PD programmer: Seppo Gründler | sound designers: Brane Zorman, Seppo Gründler | BCI performer: Markus Rapp | BCI supervisor: Reinhold Scherer
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