Thesis Feedback from profs

I talked with the professors, individually, about my thesis, of about generating images using bio-signal data such as brainwave.

I talked with Liubo first. I told him that I will be making generative drawings, and it came from this imagination of what the form to store and exchange, embed emotion would be within the technology of telecommunication and artificial intelligence.
He asked me what the viewers would be looking inside, and what the connection would they be able to find. Would it be the avatar of themselves, or would another existence. If it was an avatar, then what makes me to connect to that creature.
If they were looking at their brain, then to give a situation reasonable.He told me about the movie "avatar" , which made the situation that a person got injured by an accident, and had to embed himself into the avatar, using lots of wires and electronics. He gave an example to make the exhibition space to look like people walking into someone's brain, if they were poking into the brain of someonelse.

Also he asked me why they would have to see it but it was left without any answer. He also said that as an artist, I have to make a statement.

I talked about that it does not necessary have to be brain, but it is just an interface to capture the emotion. I also talked about motion, which can be the interface to convey emotion. He gave me the example to make a setting that people have to lay down still, without any movement, in order to make drawing images to trigger. Otherwise, using lots of crazy motion works would be hard to relate to emotion.

I liked all the ideas, which seemed very psychologically important for me to think.

After that, I talked with Peter Patchen, about generative drawings drawn by human emotion, which can be detected by people's mind, and he asked me of "why" the first, which made me speechless. There is a technology already there, why do I have to do it. We already have spoken language, is that not enough to exchange emotion? Or, if it is because of telecommunication problem within non face to face communication, then maybe I can put biofeedback devices to the keyboard and make the background change according to my emotion.

But the main point I came to realize of why I want to do this was because I wanted to be able to "store" and give, exchange, emotion.

He liked that statement. Store emotion and open it up again. What would the device be? Would you give a drawing? Would u give a USB? or a CD? How would people deal with that emotion? If it was sadness, would they be able to throw it away? or would they be able to crunch it? etc...

What is the most happy moment that you want to store? I said it was the moment getting enough sunlight, giggling with my friends. "sunlight" would be a simple information and "the moment with friends, in Korea" would be a complicated information.

He also said that in this situation, the way to call up the emotion of the viewers is also important. Also, to make that experience meaningful, people should be able to find the connection of their emotion and the generative drawings. If it is just people's emotion triggering, and the drawings just go by itself, then what would the association be within people's emotion and the drawings?
He suggested me to perform as a doctor, wearing a white gown, and let people were the biofeedback devices, and to confess the moment of happiness or sadness. If I make like 20~30 drawings, and show them, then it can also be a way to tell whether people are lying their emotion or not.

I asked of some artists that might be helpful for me, and he recommended me of "Keingold, Lynn Hershmen, Tony Oursler, Duchamp, Clavilux Jr. Thomas Wilfred c.1930(Color Organ),
Gregory Lam-Niemeyer (Gravity, Elevator Installation)"

Anyway, I have to think more and more, how to make the experience meaningful, and how to make delicate desires fulfilling through my work.

It was worth to talk with. I think it was the exact good spot.