Interactive NeuroKnitting: Knitting with Your Brain
Varvara Guljajeva and Canet Sola, Mar (2023)
Abstract
Interactive NeuroKnitting: Knitting with Your Brain stems from our previous work about knitting and brain data. A self-made circular knitting machine Circular Knitic is activated on the user’s EEG data in real-time. It means that knitting happens only when a spectator wears BCI (brain-computer interface). The audience’s meditation and attention levels are translated to the knitting machine’s speed and pattern. Hence, the autonomous knitting machine is turned into a brain-data-driven mechanism that enables the audience to experience their brain activity through the knitting process, leaving the pattern in the garment behind. The growing collective brainknitting installation is accompanied by the on-screen personal EEG data visualization overlaying AI-generated videos. A multimodal EEG data experience enables the viewers to understand their brain activity in novel and artistic ways.
Venue: Proceedings of VINCI 2023, Guangzhou, China.