~ 8 Circuit brain oracle ~

~ paper & glue ~

At Sou’Wester Arts Week 2023 @ Cape Disappointment, WA.

The immersive and interactive, brainwave driven installation explored and questioned the possibility of expanding on previously held beliefs about reality through electronic means.

~ coding images ~

~ ADDING SOUND~

(First Max patch)

(Processing)

~ second max patch ~

~ 8 circuit brain oracle installation~

This piece draws on the 8 Circuit Brain model popularized in the West by Timothy Leary in the 1960s, developed to track the evolution of human consciousness.

The model involves 8 conceptual ‘circuits’, evolving from bodily to emotional, cognitive and tribal intelligence (circuits 1 through 4) into experiences of pleasure, meta programming, numinous entities and non-locality (circuits 5-8). The idea is to master the innate intelligence of DNA by metaprogramming the brain.

I created the initial 8 Circuit Brain Oracle deck while enrolled in Antero Alli’s 8 Circuit Brain course, involving physical exercises aimed at reaching and integrating higher states of consciousness.

The 8 Circuit Brain Oracle aims to add the energy of the Divine Feminine to a model that, as Leary stated, is based on “the vital energy (that) is located in the woman (...) as a soft-yielding battery of (cosmic) power.”

The soundscapes for this piece were inspired by the Greek-Armenian philosopher G. I. Gurdjieff, who taught an early iteration of the Eight Circuit Brain model drawing on his Law of Octaves at the beginning of the 20th century.

(X-fade & Manual Circuit Selection)

During the Oracle installation, circuits were selected and deselected as a result of participants’ brainwaves.

Making subconscious selections, querents become aware of the Oracle cards’ effects and sound design on their thought patterns and expanding perspectives of reality.

~ third max patch ~

Lower and Upper brain circuits were clustered & routed to 4 projectors, with brain waves driving percentages of visibility of certain cards and circuits over others.

Participants described the experience as reminiscent of “a ketamine encounter”.