NINON LIZÉ MASCLEF
Media Artist & Research Scientist
2022-2023
A brain-computer interface that turns emotional states into colourful lights. The mask reveals and augments the feelings of the wearer.
role
Concept, design, EEG data collection and analysis, electronics
press
exhibitions
Internet Archive, XEBEC Hall, Deutsches Museum, MakerFaire Sardinia, 3DExperience Munich, Copernicus Center, Zentrum für Lehrkräftebildung Hamburg, Showroom technologique Paris-Saclay, MIT Media Lab
conference
Ninon Lizé Masclef. (2023). Symbiotic Co-Creation with AI. In AI & HCI Workshop at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Ninon Lizé Masclef and Anne Asensio. (2023). 'Art & Science' Talk Panel at CATIA World Summit. ZHL. Hamburg, Germany.
Ninon Lizé Masclef. (2023). Strange Loops : Augmenting Feelings. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2023.
prize
Top 100 French Inventors 2024 by Le Point Magazine, SolidWorks Fabricademy scholarship ($8000)
keywords
brain-computer interface, affective computing, 3D printing, wearable, hacking, music performance
Strange loops is a brain-computer interface that turns emotional states into colorful lights. Inspired by electric fields from the brain amplified by EEG, the mask reveals and augments the feelings of the wearer. By externalizing the inner world, it creates a language of the imperceptible. In this respect, it investigates how wearable technology can create new forms of nonverbal communication.
Strange Loops was selected by a jury including Yann LeCun (Meta AI), Alain Aspect (Nobel Prize in Physics), Gaël Varoquaux (Inria), Stanislas Dehaene (Neurospin) and Armand Joulin (DeepMind) as one of the top 100 French inventions of 2024, as reported in Le Point magazine.
Built in 3 months, this mask was my final project for Fabricademy, Textile and Technology Academy, a 6-month intensive postgraduate program at the intersection of digital fabrication, textiles and biology. I received a scholarship from Dassault Systemes Solidworks to attend Fabricademy 2021-22 at FABLAB DIGISCOPE | LISN | UPSACLAY | Université Paris-Saclay. Following the success of this art project, I became the first Artist-in-Residence at the 3DExperience Lab, Dassault Systèmes France's startup accelerator.
Strange Loops was selected by a jury including Yann LeCun (Meta AI), Alain Aspect (Nobel Prize in Physics), Gaël Varoquaux (Inria), Stanislas Dehaene (Neurospin) and Armand Joulin (DeepMind) as one of the top 100 French inventions of 2024, as reported in Le Point magazine.
Built in 3 months, this mask was my final project for Fabricademy, Textile and Technology Academy, a 6-month intensive postgraduate program at the intersection of digital fabrication, textiles and biology. I received a scholarship from Dassault Systemes Solidworks to attend Fabricademy 2021-22 at FABLAB DIGISCOPE | LISN | UPSACLAY | Université Paris-Saclay. Following the success of this art project, I became the first Artist-in-Residence at the 3DExperience Lab, Dassault Systèmes France's startup accelerator.
ENS Paris Saclay, Feb 2022.
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Brainwave Music Performance
Wearing this neurotech I performed live brainwave music performances accross 3 continents, notably at Internet Archive and Deutsches Museum. During the performance, emotional states are inferred from EEG signals using machine learning algorithms that modulate generative music. The self becomes visible through this feedback process, emphasizing emotional states that structure the topology of the self (G. Simondon, 2020). Additionally, in a 8-channel version of this performance motor imagery decoded from brain activity spatializes sound on stage.
Performance at TEI'23 conference in Copernicus Center, Warsaw, Poland. Feb 2023.
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