A brief, poor quality live clip of Freezepop performing their new song Brain Power at an awesome show last night. It has little to do with brain science, it’s about ideas, but I’m posting it just ‘cos they’re so kewl!! Maybe they’ll write a song about neuroscience?

They did write a song about some psychology behind being a stalker, Stakeout, with a fun Flash video here.

Tags: webcast brain art freezepop psychology

title Empathic Painting: Interactive stylization using observed emotional state
description Video demonstrating empathetic art. Abstract: “We present the “empathic painting” – an interactive painterly rendering whose appearance adapts in real time to reflect the perceived emotional state of the viewer. The empathic painting is an experiment into the feasibility of using high level control parameters (namely, emotional state) to replace the plethora of low-level constraints users must typically set to affect the output of artistic rendering algorithms. … The result is a digital canvas capable of smoothly varying its painterly style at approximately 4 frames per second, providing a novel user interactive experience using only commodity hardware.” Download free full text PDF.
producer Department of Computer Science, University of Bath
featuring unidentified woman interacting with a painting
format XviD
date 2006
length 00:00:43
link http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~vision/empaint/
direct video link http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jpc/pubs/empaint_xvid.avi

Tags: webcast brain art sci-art mood