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Fig. 3.4
EEG AR: Things We Have Lost
by John Craig Freeman, Liverpool, 2013, Augmented
reality public art
EmerAgency) consulting (testifying) on public policy encounters, via smart device
in an intelligent environment, avatar. The experiments collected here are traces of
avatar. Who is addressee of konsult? First, it is the egent and her network (self-
addressed, middle voice). Ubimage is not a spectacle, but a distributed gadfly.
EEG AR: Things We Have Lost
, shown in Fig.
3.4
, allows participants to conjure
up virtual objects by simply imagining them into existence using brainwave sensor
technology. As part of the research, development and community engagement of
this project, in 2012 we selected people at random in the streets of Liverpool and
simply asked “What have you lost?” The location was recorded, a virtual lost object
was created based on the response and the objects were then placed back in the
exact GPS coordinates using augmented reality technology, creating a citywide
network of lost things. Through this process a database of lost things was generated,
including pensions, empires, dodo birds, etc. During the experimental phase of the
project, test subjects were outfitted with EEG-reading brainwave sensors and ask to
think deeply about what he or she has lost. Once our software detects a measurable
and consistent pattern, it issues a database call to instantiate a virtual lost object at
random from the database. The virtual object then appears in front of the participant,
viewable on any iPhone or Android device.
3.7
Ordinary Aura
The Socratic Dialogue as a relay for concept avatar clarifies in the hypotyposis
(proportional analogy) that konsult foregrounds not critical reason but perceptual
affect (see also the three registers of Deleuze and Guattari: Science, Philosophy,
