A rectangular prism or “memory capsule” holds, portrays, and plays back 56 seconds of a woman’s experience in discovering an abstract painting by Anne-Marie Renan.

Hole patterns, string geometries, and light moving along hollowed panels portraying four seconds at a time, all depict the internal, neural experience of the portrayed woman; they are unique to her and to what she lived and felt in that unrepeatable moment.

By capturing and imprinting the unconscious internal reactions of what is believed to be the core of our individual existence, the brain, the piece attempts to record and maintain significant moments in deeper and truer ways.

Media and technique :
- 14 x Individual 12V DC LED-Lit + Hollowed Acrylic Panels on Arduino; intertwined by 1-3mm White/Red Cotton String
- 56 seconds of 15-25Hz PSD Brain Data captured on Emotiv Epoc+ and processed in Python 3.7
- Hole Patterns generated processing Brain Data through Touch Designer

Exhibited :
Fête de la Science, Marseille. October 2021.

Intellectual Collaborators :
Alejandra Zapata (Co-conceptualization and String Work)

Commissions and Sponsorships :
Arts Vivants Aix (Sponsor)
Emotiv (Sponsor)

The Gestures Series collects Digital Performances in Procedural Drawing with a focus on connecting the artistic values of uniqueness, limitedness, and process with digital art.

Each piece in the series can be described as a set of machine-language lines which generate specific, unique and unrepeatable images through a process which is shown and shared. The lines are clearly exhibited, yet include elements which ensure that even through exact replication, re-generating the same performances is basically impossible.

Pieces, housed in plug-and-play USB drives, will count down their exhibited performances until they reach their corresponding limits. When they reach their performance limit, they will be unable to perform again and the pieces will forever remain in a dormant state, signaling they -as any artist would- have reached their limit.

Media and technique :
Procedural Programming on Processing 3.

Commissions and Sponsorships :
Arts Vivants Aix (Sponsor)

Building upon 2019’s Beta Band, this installation uses «Máquina cerebral 4» to present an interactive and brain-based artistic experience which challenges interacteurs to explore and question their reactions to Anne-Marie Renan's abstract art, as her intense work on gesture and color present an ideal device.

Standing between two large paintings hung on opposite sides of the room, the interacteurs are equipped with an EEG headset whilst observing the works.

As they scan and observe the composition and elements of the painting, the machine translates brain impulses related to strong engagement into room-engulfing light and sound projecting the strength of the connection to each piece.

This ephemeral and real-time multi-sensory piece points out the subjectivity of art appreciation while additionally opening further leads for artists: What does each of us find engaging? Does the machine’s reaction shape our response in any way?

Media and technique :
Máquina cerebral 4 by INDI
~80m of 12V + 20Amp DC LEDs over MDF panels + Epoc+ Emotiv MoBI on Touch Designer

Occurrences :
Galerie Anne-Marie Renan @ Aix en Provence. Jan 2021. 70 visitors (limited due to COVID-19 restrictions)

Intellectual Collaborators :
Anne-Marie Renan (Abstract Art Pieces)
Memo Santos (Touch Designer Integration)
Fernando Martínez-García (Signal-Processing Algorithms)

Commissions and Sponsorships :
Arts Vivants Aix
Second Nature + Zinc
Université Aix Marseille NeuroArt Labs (Sponsor)
Emotiv (Sponsor)

For centuries, humans have wondered where our thoughts, feelings and actions come from; the heart, the stomach and the brain have all been viable answers. We now know our nervous system governs our bodies, but we still dwell on the mystery of how it works and what we can do to understand it.

Within this one-night, interactive experience, four machines dubbed << Máquinas Cerebrales 1-4 >> allow visitors to explore together through the chaos, the reactivities, and the controllable power of their own brains.

Conceptualized by Jesús Tamez-Duque and hand-built within the studio, these four brain machines integrate moving robotic lights, cameras, and over 150 meters of LEDs powered by 40 Amps of Direct Current flowing through 12V Car Batteries to turn seemingly miniscule brain signals into accessible projections of neuroscientific concepts.

Media and technique :
Máquinas cerebrales 1-4 by INDI
DC Electronics on Arduino + Muse BCI on Pure Data

Occurrences :
MARCO, Monterrey. April 2019. 700 visitors

Intellectual Collaborators :
L14’s Mike Moreno (software and sound)
L14’s Andrés Ponce (software and sound)
Memo Santos (aesthetics and visuals)

Commissions and Sponsorships :
MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Monterrey
Tecnológico de Monterrey (Sponsor)
Mezcal el Tinieblo (Sponsor)
TAMARYO (Sponsor)

Decades of research have pushed rehabilitation robots forward, but the wait for the perfect device has been long and silent. The perfect motions, increased adaptation, adding brain control… will these things really -mean- more to anyone?

Through this work focused on providing children with disabilities with apparently-ephemeral robotic walks, Jesús Tamez-Duque questions the focus and role of technology development and proposes an exploration of the significance of a single, simple, and imperfect 30-minute stroll for thousands, compared to a lifetime of usage for one.

As they leave their wheelchairs behind and come together with ALICE to stand up and walk on their own power for the first time, visiting children with disabilities and long-awaiting families become part of the questioning and of a statement which they can, themselves, confirm.


Media and technique :
Alice Powered Exoskeleton by INDI
26Nm/12V DC Motors on Arduino over Metal, Plastic and Carbon Fiber Structure

Occurrences :
Hospital Zambrano Hellion, June 2019. 10 visiting children

Intellectual Collaborators :
Ulises Tamez-Duque (medical approach)
Fernando Martínez-García (software)

Commissions and Sponsorships :
Tecnológico de Monterrey (Sponsor)
SolidWorks (Sponsor)
AM Equipment (Sponsor)