Digital artist Luciana Haill is ‘Head of Augmented Consciousness’ (ASC), formerly Head of Neurofeedback in The Institute of Unnecessary Research. She works with Neurotechnologies to sample human brains’ electrical oscillations (EEG) emitted during Altered States of Consciousness (ASC). Her presentations of this information as interactive telematic art and sensory environments, often in conjunction with changes in thinking, emotions, and behaviors invoke desired physiological changes.
Altered states of consciousness can occur passively through daydreaming or reverie upon awakening. Luciana’s experience of viral meningitis and fever as a teenager led her to fascination with imaging the intangible in the brain. Dominating her work are science art projects exploring lucid dreaming, hypnosis and forms of meditation.
(excerpt of video with Luciana Haill in Raymond Scott documentary – ‘not such a nutty idea after all !’ )
- Cyber Sleep (a very discrete state of consciousness, Lucid Dreaming training with sleep analysis and EEG) : 2007 -2009
- Augmented Consciousness : 2008-2010
- Analogue Oneironism (EEG + Dream Machine) : 2009- 2010
- Phantom Self : 2010
Luciana has also created two sound works for The Bio-Tracking Project in collaboration with Anna Dumitriu and visited STEIM in The Netherlands together.
Arts Council of England - Lottery funded
