Tender Rhythms

Interactive Brain-Computer Interface Installation, which creates music and visuals when two people deeply connect with one another.

Visual Arts Building (but park at the Peavine Visitors Parking Lot)

*IMPORTANT: The exhibit is happening at the Emory University Visual Arts Gallery (700 Peavine Creek Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30322), but there are only 2 PARKING spots, so it might be a good idea to park at the <a href="http://arts.emory.edu/plan-your-visit/parking/peavine.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Peavine Guest Parking Lot</a> (29 Eagle Row Atlanta, GA 30322) which is a 10min walk from the gallery. Please be ready to wear a MASK.*We live in a world of divisions – divisions by gender, sex, race, age, ability, ... But then again, we know of rare moments of real and deep connection, beyond binaries, where it seems as if the division between ‘me’ and ‘another’ temporarily disappears. Tender Rhythms proposes that re-imagining a radically different world requires us to shift the focus from divided individuals to those deep intersubjective connections. But how can we give voice to these connections if our language as well as our institutions are obsessed with autonomous individuals, and rigid patriarchal identity constructions and binaries? How can we write or talk about the boundary phenomena in-between these binaries? Unlike us - bounded individuals - these connections do not have bodies to communicate. This is where our installation comes in, formed on the intersection between the humanities, art, science, and technology.Tender Rhythms is a BCI or Brain-Computer Interface Installation, based on recent neuroscientific research which shows that when people deeply connect with each other, their alpha brainwaves synchronize. Our installation invites two participants to sit down in front of each other while wearing EEG-headbands. When connecting, and brainwaves synchronize, our installation will start to make music and projected visuals. Literally giving a voice to the connection between us.Tender Rhythms is a collaboration between music technology Ph.D. Mike Winters and conceptual new media artist The Glad Scientists (a.k.a. Daniel Sabio) and Stephanie Koziej. In August 2020 Dr. Stephanie Koziej graduated with a PhD in Women's, Gender and Sexuality studies from Emory University. This installation forms the artistic chapter of Stephanie's artistic doctoral dissertation, Tender Rhythms. Re-Thinking Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Sociality through the Hysteric’s Desire for Tenderness. The exhibit was made possible by the generous support of Emory University's Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture and Emory's Center for Creativity and Arts "Creativity &amp; Arts Project Grant."

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