Biofeedback Art-Research Network

08/10/2025

A visual archive of biofeedback & art:
https://www.cosmos.so/biofeedbackart

07/10/2025

"My final dissertation at university was about the Fluxus art movement, and to my surprise, David [Mayor] had been an active Fluxus artist in the 1970s. Together, we combined inspirations and staged performances with performance artist Zoe Dowlen at the Contemporary Arts Centre in Bordeaux. These included It’s Not Alarm, It’s My Mother and Doing Nothing with Intensity (with Thibaut Cora), performing Yoko Ono’s Tunafish Sandwich, and simply playing brainwave feedback while playing chess."

— full interview with Aiste Noreikaite is out on our website:
https://biofeedbackartresearch.net/blog/biofeedback-journey-of-aiste-noreikaite

02/10/2025

Curated bookshelf for biofeedback+art lovers: https://www.are.na/anastasia-chernysheva/cybersentics-book-club

21/09/2025

Next weekend, check out the performance of Johnny Tomasello at Harvestworks (NYC):

DATES AND TIMES: Saturday September 27th, 2025 @ 2:00 pm FREE Limited Seating LOCATION: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island  Featuring The Glass Clouds Ensemble, Mari Kimura, Johnny Tomasiello Gestures of Nature is an informal concert of new music for ...

16/08/2025

"I would like my work to help foster a deeper awareness of the interconnectedness between humans and the natural world. By combining art and science, I hope to create experiences that spark curiosity, make scientific knowledge more accessible to the general public, and inspire care for often overlooked elements of our ecosystems."

— read the full member interview with Ana Zdravkovic on our website: https://biofeedbackartresearch.net/blog/biofeedback-journey-of-ana-zdravkovic

11/08/2025

It's a wrap! And a proof of concept:
with a bit of guidance, anyone can create a biofeedback music instrument in under 2 hours! All you need is a laptop, some free software like Max/MSP and Arduino, plus an Arduino kit to construct a GSR (galvanic skin response) sensor. The parts, including the Grove GSR and Grove Base Shield V2.0 for the Seeeduino V4.3, will run you about $20-30, and don’t forget a USB! If you're new to the software, the process may take a longer — especially since you'll need to design a sonification tool yourself.

Thanks everyone who joined Barbara Nerness and me this Saturday at Gray Area to discover how biofeedback may be an approach for making for art and music based on physiological processes that keep us alive.

Just like a synthesizer, our bodies rely on electricity and have their own rhythms—think about respiration, heartbeat, and brain activity. How does maintaining that rhythm relate to our well-being? May observing brainwave activity on the screen help you understand how you better understand yourself? Can we expand our sensorium wearing or implanting biosensors?
Does technology shape us, or do we shape technology? What can we learn from observing and listening to the "ecology" of our skin?

What other biofeedback + art practices are you curious about or want to learn more about? Share your thoughts!