The project Expanded Artist Notebooks consists of two audiovisual installations that aim to extend the concept of a notebook or sketchbook into an interactive format where the viewer|actor becomes a co-creator of the audiovisual artwork.
WatER SkeTcheS (2024) is an interactive space designed to connect the participant's head (their brain electrogram) with an audiovisual corpus of water. This interactive space not only invites active participation but also encourages self-exploration by fostering a heightened awareness of oneself and the interdependence between the individual and their environment.
Upon entering the exhibition space, the participant is immersed in a unique sensory experience where their own mind, and primarily their attention, becomes the central resource of the artistic piece. Through advanced EEG technology, each gesture and, most importantly, the participant’s patterns of attention are translated into visual and auditory transformations within the projected body of water, creating a dialogue between the mind and the audiovisual flow. This fusion of physical and digital elements offers a fascinating journey of connection and communication between the individual and their environment. By extension, the installation provides an opportunity to explore relationships between the individual and water ecosystems. Seeing their own attention reflected in the audiovisual aquatic body, the participant is confronted with a reflection on their connection to this element—whose bodies represent both present and future ecological realities that affect us in a bidirectional way.