The ‘Live Brain-Computer Cinema’ research project was featured in the AramcoWorld magazine’s March / April 2022 issue. Dr Polina Zioga was interviewed by Lee Lawrence for her work on ‘Enheduanna: A Manifesto of Falling’ Live Brain-Computer Cinema Performance, the ‘50-minute mixed-media event [that] broke technological ground’.
In producing Enheduanna: A Manifesto of Falling, which premiered in 2015, Zioga intercut verses from “The Exaltation” with words by Maya Angelou, Virginia Woolf, Theodore Adorno, Pavlina Pamboudi, Marguerite Yourcenar and other writers. The 50-minute mixed-media event broke technological ground […]: As video projections filled a screen, the show’s solo performer and audience members […] wore […] headsets that intermittently picked up brain activity and colored the stage in real time accordingly to the results. […] It was the premiere of a live, brain-computer interface performance, and in it the world’s first author seemed right at home. “The Exaltation,” says Zioga, “is one of these works that is safe to describe as universal and timeless, and therefore contemporary.”
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