'Neurotheater' Open Lecture

Description

'Neurotheater' open lecture given by Saint Petersburg State University leading research associate Alexander Valjamae PhD will be held on the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theater on August 26 at 5 pm.

The talk will mark the start of the Experimental Interaction Design international summer school, which will take place on August 26-31, 2018.

Contemporary theater is now going through a transformation where the new media art and neurotechnologies allow for collective co-creation with spectators becoming spectActors. Neurotheater is an innovative concept of interactive theater where audience and actors can communicate via brain-neural computer interaction using multimodal sensors and actuators. 

Neurotheater is enabled by brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which make it possible for people to communicate without any physical movement and are primarily aimed at helping users with severe disabilities who otherwise cannot communicate or move. However, thanks to rapid technological development, BCIs are becoming more and more widespread in non-clinical fields such as gaming, astronautical science, and arts. In his 'Neurotheater' open lecture, Alexander Valjamae, PhD and leading research associate at Saint Petersburg State University's Department of Higher Nervous Functions and Psychophysiology, will lift the veil on how these new technologies are used in contemporary theater. 

Please register here to attend. Admission is free. 

Participants

Organizers

• ITMO University Creative Lighting Department
• Tallinn University School of Digital Technologies
• New Media Lab of the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theater
  

Contacts

Tallinn University international summer school

 e-mail: tss@tlu.ee