The Great Light In Mind
Interactive Installation | 2019
Interactive Installation | 2019
The original intention of this work was to understand the meditation experience of Buddhist Zen scholars and to simulate a realistic, visual, multi-sensory experience of meditation for the average person.
The background and research was about the benefits of meditation on the negative psychology of contemporary people, such as restlessness and anxiety, and then extended to the changes in brain waves caused by meditation, as different states of thought will have different brain waveforms, and in meditation the brain waves are in theta value. This part of the research was the theoretical support for the use of the brainwave detector in the later stages of the project; later, after understanding meditation, contact with meditators and questionnaire research, I summarised four factors that are important for meditation from the meditator's perspective: body, eyes, hearing and smell, i.e. touch, sight, hearing and smell. This led to my idea for the whole interactive device: 1. The device is in the shape of a stable triangle, so that the body and mind can be more stable in such a structure - "touch" 2. The incense and meditation music are "olfactory" and "auditory". Considering that the whole installation, together with the appearance of the meditation, is axisymmetrical, I put the incense and sound into the two yin and yang boxes to integrate the whole in appearance and to emphasise the concept of "yin and yang" in the pursuit of balance.
The background and research was about the benefits of meditation on the negative psychology of contemporary people, such as restlessness and anxiety, and then extended to the changes in brain waves caused by meditation, as different states of thought will have different brain waveforms, and in meditation the brain waves are in theta value. This part of the research was the theoretical support for the use of the brainwave detector in the later stages of the project; later, after understanding meditation, contact with meditators and questionnaire research, I summarised four factors that are important for meditation from the meditator's perspective: body, eyes, hearing and smell, i.e. touch, sight, hearing and smell. This led to my idea for the whole interactive device: 1. The device is in the shape of a stable triangle, so that the body and mind can be more stable in such a structure - "touch" 2. The incense and meditation music are "olfactory" and "auditory". Considering that the whole installation, together with the appearance of the meditation, is axisymmetrical, I put the incense and sound into the two yin and yang boxes to integrate the whole in appearance and to emphasise the concept of "yin and yang" in the pursuit of balance.
这个作品的初衷是想要通过了解佛学禅学者的冥想体验，去模拟出让普通人都能感受的真实的、可视化、多感官体验的冥想过程。
背景和调研里是关于冥想对于当代人浮躁、焦虑等负面心理的种种好处，然后延伸到冥想对于脑波的改变，人的不同思维状态会有不同的脑波波形，而在冥想是脑波是呈theta值，这部分调研为项目后期使用到“脑波检测仪”作理论支持；之后在对禅修的了解以及与禅修者的接触、问卷调研后，总结了从禅修者的角度来看对于冥想比较重要的四个影响因素：身、眼、听、嗅，即触觉、视觉、听觉、嗅觉。由此而出我对做这整个交互装置的想法与构思：1.这个装置整体呈稳定的三角形立体状，体验者在这样的架构里身心都能够更加稳定下来——“触觉”2.体验者戴上脑波检测仪，脑波会控制装置的灯光——“视觉” 3.熏香和冥想禅修乐是“嗅觉”和“听觉”上的引导，考虑到整个装置加上体验者冥想的外观，都是一个整体轴对称式，所以我把熏香和声音放进这两个阴阳盒，在外观上融入整体并且“阴阳”也强调了追求平衡的概念。
背景和调研里是关于冥想对于当代人浮躁、焦虑等负面心理的种种好处，然后延伸到冥想对于脑波的改变，人的不同思维状态会有不同的脑波波形，而在冥想是脑波是呈theta值，这部分调研为项目后期使用到“脑波检测仪”作理论支持；之后在对禅修的了解以及与禅修者的接触、问卷调研后，总结了从禅修者的角度来看对于冥想比较重要的四个影响因素：身、眼、听、嗅，即触觉、视觉、听觉、嗅觉。由此而出我对做这整个交互装置的想法与构思：1.这个装置整体呈稳定的三角形立体状，体验者在这样的架构里身心都能够更加稳定下来——“触觉”2.体验者戴上脑波检测仪，脑波会控制装置的灯光——“视觉” 3.熏香和冥想禅修乐是“嗅觉”和“听觉”上的引导，考虑到整个装置加上体验者冥想的外观，都是一个整体轴对称式，所以我把熏香和声音放进这两个阴阳盒，在外观上融入整体并且“阴阳”也强调了追求平衡的概念。
