Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London Conference
July 1, 2022
Jonathan Weinel
Explosions in the Mind: Composing Psychedelic Sound and Visualisations (Weinel, 2021) is a new book exploring more than a decade of the author’s practice-led research composing sound and visualisations based on altered states of consciousness such as hallucinations and experiences of synaesthesia (Figure 1). The book is part of the Palgrave Studies in Sound series, edited by Prof. Mark...
Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London Conference
July 1, 2020
C. Smith
This paper attempts to redefine Double Consciousness (DC) as a framework through a number of emerging application areas, including: i) Living in Virtual Reality, ii) Dream Hacking and iii) DMTx Technology. The following questions will be used to frame the investigation: What are the opportunities that these application areas offer in terms of living in parallel? What are the corresponding...
Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London Conference
July 1, 2018
M. Almena
The main focus of this paper is to explore the re-contextualisation of the concept of transcendence as an altered state of experience within digital art performances. Is there a transcendental art movement in the contemporary digital art scene and does it exist in response to the lack of emotional and spiritual connection in general Western Society? How could we use our contemporary mediums,...
Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London Conference
July 7, 2015
Marios Athanasiou
This presentation explores Omega Point, a digital interactive art installation that works as an electronic visualisation of a new theory of consciousness as a quantum physics phenomenon. Recent discoveries in neuroscience support a twenty-year-old controversial theory of consciousness entitled Orch-OR that states that consciousness does not emerge from complex computational activities inside...
Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London Conference
July 7, 2015
Jonathan Weinel
It has been proposed that among the earliest known artworks produced by humans may have been representations of altered states of consciousness (ASCs). With the advent of modern computer technology that enables the creation of almost any sound or image imaginable, the possibility of representing the subjective visual and aural components of hallucinatory experiences with increased realism...
Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London Conference
July 1, 2014
Jonathan Weinel, Stuart Cunningham, N. Roberts et al.
Psych Dome (Weinel 2013a) is a short interactive piece of visual music first presented in an immersive 'full dome' environment that forms part of the authors' on-going research regarding Altered States of Consciousness (ASC) as a basis for the design of computer-based artworks.