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
conference
Ninon Lizé Masclef. (2023). Symbiotic Co-Creation with AI. Ninon Lizé Masclef. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Music Performance
I created with this wearable a series of brainwave music performances. 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.Brainwave music performance at Internet Archive, San Francisco, Nov 2024.
Performance at TEI'23 conference in Copernicus Center, Warsaw, Poland.
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Prototype of music spatialization from brainwave activity in Ableton Live.
The spatialized choir is constituted of audio deepfakes trained on my singing voice.
The spatialized choir is constituted of audio deepfakes trained on my singing voice.
Media
Interview with Dassault Systèmes