Generating Music and Generative Art from Brain activity

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel computational system that creates generative art from brain activity using a BCI, integrating visual, auditory, olfactory, and kinesthetic elements to reflect users' mental states.

Contribution

It introduces an innovative multimodal generative art system that translates brain signals into complex artistic expressions with autonomous and interactive features.

Findings

Reliable BCI data transmission demonstrated

Generated artworks effectively represent mental states

Multimodal components enhance artistic expression

Abstract

Nowadays, technological advances have influenced all human activities, creating new dynamics and ways of communication. In this context, some artists have incorporated these advances in their creative process, giving rise to unique aesthetic expressions referred to in the literature as Generative Art, which is characterized by assigning part of the creative process to a system that acts with certain autonomy (Galanter, 2003). This research work introduces a computational system for creating generative art using a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) which portrays the user's brain activity in a digital artwork. In this way, the user takes an active role in the creative process. In aims of showing that the proposed system materializes in an artistic piece the user's mental states by means of a visual and sound representation, several tests are carried out to ensure the reliability of the BCI device sent data. The generated artwork uses brain signals and concepts of geometry, color and spatial location to give complexity to the autonomous construction. As an added value, the visual and auditory production is accompanied by an olfactory and kinesthetic component which complements the art pieces providing a multimodal communication character.