The Mutual Wave Machine is an interactive neurofeedback installation that embodies the elusive notion of ‘being on the same wavelength’ with another person through brainwave synchronization. Enclosed by an intimate capsule and immersed in an audiovisual environment that responds and reflects their shared brain activity, two visitors can directly experience and manipulate their internal efforts to approach each other, or distance themselves from each other.  

During the experience, greater brainwave synchronization is reflected in greater vividness and more coherent and recognizable audiovisual patterns, while lack of synchronization strays towards dark audio-visual chaos: a faint ringing in the ears and static in the retinas. The audience can hear and observe the internal dance unfold through the semi-translucent shell of the Machine.

collaborators

Suzanne Dikker 
Matthias Oostrik
Peter Burr
Diederik Schoorl
Pandelis Diamantides 
Marina Abramovic Institute

selected exhibitions

October 2017. Mutual Wave Machine. OPUS 1 Festival Merriweather MD
May-July 2017. Mutual Wave Machine. Pioneer Works Brooklyn
September 2016. Mutual Wave Machine. FORMS Festival. Toronto
June 2016. Mutual Wave Machine. 3LD Art & Technology Center. New York City
April 2016. Mutual Wave Machine. Innovation Expo. Amsterdam
March-April 2016. Mutual Wave Machine. AS ONE exhibition, Benaki Museum. Athens
March 2016. Mutual Wave Machine. Cultural Sundays & Utrecht University Lustrum. The Netherlands
November 2015. Mutual Wave Machine. EUREKA ! National Science Agenda. The Netherlands
August 2015. Mutual Wave Machine. Lowlands Science. Lowlands Festival. The Netherlands