{"id":1178,"date":"2005-01-23T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/23\/installation-application-embryonic\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:45","slug":"installation-application-embryonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/23\/installation-application-embryonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Installation? Application? — Embryonic Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, the Times had an article<\/a> (found via Boing Boing<\/a>) on something called the Dream Machine<\/a>. It’s basically a slow strobe. “[S]cientists . . . noted in experiments that light flickering at 8 to 12 flashes a second against a subject’s closed eyelids seemed to slow the electrical pulse rate of the subject’s brain to a state of semiconsciousness known as the alpha state and produce rich dreamlike imagery.” Furthermore, I have it on good authority that playing pieces with a 10Hz difference between the right and left ear has similar FX. 10Hz is the sleepy Hz.<\/p>\n

There is some issue with using this phenomenon, at least with light. “Dr. Robert Fisher, the director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Stanford, said that 1 in 10,000 people is likely to have a seizure in reaction to the its stroboscopic light, and that children are about twice as susceptible.” Ok, so it’s somewhat dangerous. This is why you can’t buy a dream machine (except hand-made), even though it’s supposed to be dern cool.
\nOk, so what do you do artistically with a phenomenon which will harm 0.01% of the population? You can’t just put it up in a gallery, that’s for sure. So, you could do a small installation wiht lots of warning and posted no access for children, maybe. Or a web application. Or what? hmmmm.
\nI do want to try to slip ideas at people while they’re suseptible. Hacking Humans<\/em>. I promise it will be good stuff, “Love they Neighbor,” etc. Although I’m sure Focus on the Family would object. “Pledging to love your neighbor is a way of accepting alternative lifestyles and homosexuality! What if your neighbor were gay, for example!” Said Lou Dobbs.
\nTags: Installation<\/a>, Dreams<\/a>, 10Hz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, the Times had an article (found via Boing Boing) on something called the Dream Machine. It’s basically a slow strobe. “[S]cientists . . . noted in experiments that light flickering at 8 to 12 flashes a second against a subject’s closed eyelids seemed to slow the electrical pulse rate of the subject’s brain to … Continue reading Installation? Application? — Embryonic Idea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}