participatory art of the new technology kind.

Indian artist Raghava KK is working to morph art into a participatory platform that can break bias -- and he's doing it with an EEG headset.

Speaking at Wired 2012 and introduced by Lakshmi Pratury, who creates an ecosystem for youth through INKtalks, Raghava KK explained that he himself is not bias-free -- that would be an almost impossible ask. But, he is trying to introduce as many biases as possible into his work and give the audience the power to change those biases.

"The truth is I'm an Indian -- I'm bloody biased, but I want my work to be biased with as many perspectives as possible."
This, he believes, can be possible if we change our perceptions of art as a one-way directive, with a piece of work dictating the message and ther viewer merely interpreting it. Why not bring the viewer into the artwork, giving them the opportunity to change it from within, he asks.

His latest project with Sean Stevens is where the work he did with the flamenco dancers and the children's narratives came together. Donning an EEG headset on stage at Wired 2012, Raghava KK demonstrated how, with his mind, he could control an image of a woman's face. Hooked up to a computer his alpha, beta and gamma waves were processed live and morphed the woman's expression. This, Raghava KK believes, represents a future where viewers in a gallery become part of the art, and the art, part of them.

"A lot of my work is about trying to bring my art to life," he said. "My dream is that art becomes completely participatory. I want everyone to participate in art because I think creativity is about empathy -- artists are going to use technology to work with people to participate in their art."

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/25/raghava-kk-artist