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SUMMARY:The Thought Experiment
DESCRIPTION:The technology that reads electrical signals from the brain has quietly moved out of hospitals and into everyday life. What to do with that data (who holds it\, who benefits from it\, what it reveals about us) remains genuinely unsettled. The Thought Experiment lives inside the gap between what the technology can do and what we have yet to decide it should. \nWho owns what happens inside your mind? The question is no longer hypothetical. \nThe Thought Experiment puts you inside a few possible futures\, each shaped by a different answer to that question. Not as a warning\, but as an experience of what it feels like to live inside each answer\, and to choose which version of that future you want to inhabit. \nThose who observe from outside see something reacting to something invisible. That is its own kind of encounter. \nThe installation uses EEG to translate the neural activity of participants into the environment around them in real time. What you encounter depends on who is inside with you\, and which future you find yourselves inside together. \nCome step inside the question. \nDrop in anytime between 2:00 and 5:00pm. Plan for about 30 minutes\, but stay as long as you like. \nPresented by The Noetic Commons\, artist-researchers working at the intersection of neurotechnology\, experiential futures\, and community. Chrissy Charlton (MS\, Creative Technology and Design\, CU Boulder) and Tyler Grimes (PhD candidate\, Critical Media Practices\, CU Boulder). \nExhibited in the Novack Hub for Creative Citizens\, 2nd Floor\nSimpson Family Makers Building\n145 Hooper Street\nSan Francisco\, CA 94107 \nOpen from 2:00pm to 5:00pm. Limited parking with a four-hour time limit is available along streets adjacent to the CCA campus. Enter CCA’s campus through the main gates. Turn left to access the Simpson Family Makers Building. Once inside\, take the elevator or stairs to the second floor. When you exit the elevator\, turn left. 
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/the-thought-experiment/
LOCATION:California College of the Arts\, Novack Hub for Creative Citizens\, 2nd Floor\, Simpson Family Makers Building \, 145 Hooper Street\, San Francisco\, 94107\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Noetic Commons":MAILTO:chrissy.charlton@gmail.com
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