The Creative Mind – DRACLE

Human creativity is not just the result of a cognitive encapsulated process, but is an online process that link together thoughts, emotions and sensory events in a complex fashion. Thanks to this property, that is to the development of mental reflection, we can always (or almost always) create a context in which to give sense to the world. Art and science are clear examples. Scientific research is clearly interested in mechanisms of translating the imagination, the pure thinking into something useful to a community in a social and economic sense. In particular, the contemporary cognitive science, which is slowly abandoning its traditional stand-alone paradigms, is increasingly taking the shape of an open range where it possible to exercise a fruitful cross-fertilization between different disciplines (from computer science to psychology, from art to anthropology and mathematics) that more and more speak a similar language. This new frontier is what we call the paradigm of extended cognition. The performance, presented and discussed in this paper, is aimed at artists, scholars and experts interested in the whole world of creativity and the related psychological and neuro-cognitive mechanisms. The paper aims at explaining the possible benefits deriving from the contamination of Art and Science in order to understand how the mind and brain shape our experience through the dynamics of conscious and unconscious creativity mechanisms. We aim to contaminate the traditional academic thinking with the suggestions coming from the world of contemporary art and particularly, the installation aims to introduce a discussion on the critical issue of the creativity mediated by technology and, as a counterpart, the creative mood of technology.

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Raffaella Folgieri

Ludovico Dei Cas

Dario Dei Cas

Maria Elide Vanutelli

Claudio Lucchiari

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 290-295

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[0001]Department of Philosophy

Università degli Studi di Milano

Via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan, Italy

[0002]Cdl Public Management

Università degli Studi di Milano

Via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan, Italy

[0003]Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”

Via San Vittore 21, Milan, Italy

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.59

SO-VID: 7205eda6-c955-4a40-acb6-d3ff29ddec74

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] B. Z. AllisonE. W. WolpawJ. R Wolpaw 2007 Brain-computer interface systems: progress and prospects, Expert Rev Med Devices 4 4 463 474

[2] A. BanziR. Folgieri 2012 EEG-Based BCI Data Analysis on Visual-Perceptual Priming in the Context of a Museum of Fine Arts, in DMS 75 78

[3] N. P. BechterevaZ. V. Nagornova 2007 Changes in EEG coherence during tests for nonverbal (Figurative) creativity. Human Physiology 33 5 515 523

[4] M. A. Boden 2004 The Creative Mind: Myths and mechanisms. Psychology Press

[5] E. CaloreR. FolgieriD. GadiaD. Marini 2012 Analysis of brain activity and response during monoscopic and stereoscopic visualization, in IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging (pp. 82880M-82880M). International Society for Optics and Photonics

[6] J. L. Casti 1995 Complexification. London Abacus

[7] A. DietrichR. Kanso 2010 A review of EEG, ERP, and neuroimaging studies of creativity and insight. Psychological Bulletin 136 5 822 848

[8] T. EgnerJ. H. Gruzelier 2001 Learned selfregulation of EEG frequency components affects attention and event-related brain potentials in humans. Neuroreport 12 18 4155 4159

[9] T. EgnerJ. H. Gruzelier 2004 The temporal dynamics of electroencephalographic responses to alpha/theta neurofeedback training in healthy subjects. Journal of Neurotherapy 8 1 43 57

[10] T. EgnerJ. H. Gruzelier 2017 EEG Biofeedback of low beta band components: frequency-specific effects on variables of attention and event-related brain potentials. Clinical Neurophysiology 115 1 131 139

[11] A. FinkM. Benedek 2014 EEG alpha power and creative ideation. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 44 111 123

[12] R. FolgieriM. G. BergomiS. Castellani 2014 EEG-based brain-computer interface for emotional involvement in games through music, in Digital Da Vinci 205 236 Springer New York

[13] R. FolgieriL. Dei CasF. SoaveC. Lucchiari 2012 Art in the Neuroscience era. How the brain understands and creates art in: EVA 2016 Florence. Firenze 11 - 12 May 2016 Firenze University Press

[14] R. FolgieriC. LucchiariM. GranatoD. Grechi 2014 Brain, Technology and Creativity. BrainArt: A BCI-Based Entertainment Tool to Enact Creativity and Create Drawing from Cerebral Rhythms. In Digital Da Vinci 65 97 Springer New York

[15] R. FolgieriC. LucchiariD. Marini 2013 Analysis of brain activity and response to colour stimuli during learning tasks: an EEG study. IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging. International Society for Optics and Photonics California, US, 86520I-86520I

[16] R. FolgieriR. Zampolini 2014 BCI promises in emotional involvement in music and games. Computers in Entertainment (CIE) 12 1 4

[17] R. FolgieriM. Zichella 2012 A BCI-based application in music: Conscious playing of single notes by brainwaves. Computers in Entertainment (CIE) 10 1 1

[18] M. GriersonC. Kiefer 2011 Better brain interfacing for the masses: progress in event-related potential detection using commercial brain computer interfaces, in: CHI ‘11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ‘11). ACM New York, NY, USA

[19] J. H. GruzelierT. Egner 2004 Physiological self-regulation: biofeedback and neurofeedback. Musical Excellence 197 219

[20] A. GyurakM. S. GoodkindJ. H. KramerB. L. MillerR. W. Levenson 2012 Executive functions and the down-regulation and up-regulation of emotion. Cognition & emotion 26 1 103 118

[21] P. N. JuslinJ. A. Sloboda 2010 Handbook of music and emotion: theory, research, applications Oxford Oxford University Press

[22] J. LeDoux 2012 Rethinking the emotional brain. Neuron 73 4 653 676

[23] V. S. RamachandranW. Hirstein 1999 The science of art: A neurological theory of aesthetic experience. Journal of consciousness Studies 6 6-7 15 51

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