imPRINTING transports visitors inside the artist’s brain via a retro-future “thinking cap” allowing us to tune into and discover its many channels and sonic imprints including memories, music, conversations, hopes, fears and dreams.

In this sonic self-portrait, art rebel Beatie Wolfe presents a new format for the digital age: a data-encoded “thinking cap.” Via retro listening stations, plugged into the hat, the audience is able to explore the brain’s many channels, which include music (limbic system), memory (neocortex), collaborations (medial prefrontal lobe), and conversations (Wernicke’s area). The data related to each “brain channel” are ecologically encoded in glass and woven into the cap to be preserved for up to 10,000 years.

Audience

All Ages

Location

Green Wing View Map

Price

Included with Exhibit Halls admission

Language

English

Audience

All Ages

Location

Green Wing View Map

Price

Included with Exhibit Halls admission

Language

English

imPRINTING transports visitors inside the artist’s brain via a retro-future “thinking cap” allowing us to tune into and discover its many channels and sonic imprints including memories, music, conversations, hopes, fears and dreams.

In this sonic self-portrait, art rebel Beatie Wolfe presents a new format for the digital age: a data-encoded “thinking cap.” Via retro listening stations, plugged into the hat, the audience is able to explore the brain’s many channels, which include music (limbic system), memory (neocortex), collaborations (medial prefrontal lobe), and conversations (Wernicke’s area). The data related to each “brain channel” are ecologically encoded in glass and woven into the cap to be preserved for up to 10,000 years.

Imprinting in the Digital Age

Drawing on her dementia and music research work, this installation takes a creative and playful look at the nature of neurology and explores the importance of imprinting in the digital age: a philosophical principle and overarching theme of Wolfe’s work. imPRINTING shows us how via this sonic portrait we can gain a greater understanding of ourselves — and of one another — in the process.

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About the Artist

Beatie Wolfe

Musical weirdo and visionary" (Vice) Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a United Nations role model for innovation, and held a solo exhibition of her ‘world first’ designs at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Named by WIRED magazine as one of "22 people changing the world,” Wolfe is a pioneer at the forefront of new formats that bridge the physical and digital. Wolfe's latest innovations include a visualization of 800,000 years of carbon dioxide data, which premiered at the Nobel Prize Summit; a Brain Installation which was exhibited at the London Design Biennale in Somerset House; and a Big Oil project that just won Prix Ars Electronica’s Golden Nica.

Other recent projects include the world's first bioplastic record, with Michael Stipe and EarthPercent, and a new body of work with Brian Eno. Wolfe is also the cofounder of a groundbreaking research project looking at the power of music for dementia. Learn more: www.beatiewolfe.com