(A)-Dialog
17/06/2018
WORLD
A)Dialog is a mixed-media performance that uses brain activity information to generate visual patterns reflecting on the dancer's emotional state. As the performer moves, their emotions are captured and translated into visual patterns, creating a dynamic and captivating experience for the audience.
As the performer moves, internal shifts (fear, tension, elation, calm) ripple outward as real-time projections and soundscapes. The stage becomes a membrane where inner experience is externalized, allowing the audience to witness not just movement, but the affective undercurrents that shape it.
After the performance, the audience is invited to engage directly with the system. They are free to wear the EEG headset themselves and explore how their own emotional states influence the audiovisual environment, shifting from spectator to participant.
This fusion of neuroscience and performance opens new terrain for research into embodied cognition, biofeedback aesthetics, and neuro-expressive interfaces. The work draws on studies of emotion recognition, sensorimotor feedback and machine learning, proposing a framework where the inner state becomes a compositional element amplified, and re-performed through machine mediation.
The project began during the creation lab Les Machines Utopiques at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, where initial experiments explored how neural data could be transposed into performative language. Following this early research phase, the work was further developed and produced during a residency at La Folie Numérique La Villette, where it was presented publicly for the first time.
Credits
Supporting institutions
Ideation La Gaîté Lyrique - Paris - Coordinated by Christian Delécluse
Production Folie numerique - Pairs - Coordinated by Erik Lorré
Exhibition space Folie numerique
Development - InDialog
With the support of the DRAC - Ille de France