The Intentional Arc


2025

Interactive Installation

EEG, camera, projection, iPad

Dimension variable 



The work explores whether attention can be externalized, spatialized, and shared through computational media. Participants read texts while EEG signals and gaze trajectories are

continuously captured. These cognitive traces are translated into evolving visual and sonic environments that simultaneously influence subsequent perception and concentration.

As cognitive activity becomes materialized within the environment, the installation establishes a recursive system in which human cognition and

computational processes continuously shape one another.



Video:

Produced by Zijie Zou



Reading trace
Archive



Focused state
Adaptive state
Diffused state
Photos by Zijie Zou