High tides and also low tides come and go, as the level of the sea goes up and down. Tides are really all about gravity, and when we’re talking about the daily tides, it’s the moon’s gravity that’s causing them. As Earth rotates, the moon’s gravity pulls on different parts of our planet. Even though the moon only has about 1/100th the mass of Earth, and since it’s so close to us, it has enough gravity to move things around. The moon’s gravity even pulls on the land, however, not enough for anyone to really tell.
When the moon’s gravity pulls on the water in the oceans, however, someone’s bound to notice. Water, being a liquid and all, has a much easier time moving around. It bulges toward the moon, and that bulge follows the moon as Earth turns beneath it. If the moon’s gravity is pulling the oceans toward it, how can the ocean also bulge on the side of Earth away from the moon? It does seem a little weird.
Gravity is the major force causing tides, but inertia is playing a part too. Inertia is matter’s resistance to change. It wants to keep doing whatever it’s doing, whether that’s moving in a straight line or staying still, until another force acts on it. While the water closest to the moon is getting pulled, the water farthest from the moon is staying right where it is. Both sides are experiencing gravity and inertia, but one always overpowers the other.
On the side by the moon, gravity wins. And on the side away from the moon, inertia wins. If the moons lunar pull can change ocean tide why can’t the energy from personal conflict cause cancer?
Lisa Park does not have telekinesis — However if you ignore the black sensors wrapped around her head and watch the pools of water below, it looks as though she’s pulling off some serious Carrie-style mind manipulation.
In Eunoia II, Park controls 48 pools of water using just her brainwaves. The rippling water appears to move through sheer will, but it’s actually the result 14 EEG sensors capturing Park’s emotions and translating them into sound waves.
The music pipes through speakers attached to the bottom of each plate which causes the water to vibrate. On command Park can increase the volume of music or change the intensity of vibrations in the pools of water. Think of it as a direct visualization of what Park is feeling at any given moment.
Eunoia II is a continuation (and expansion) of Eunoia, a similar installation Park created last year while a student at New York University’s ITP program. In the previous iteration of the installation, Park also controlled the five pools of water, each of which had speakers underneath to induce the vibrating. The goal in the original Euonia project was to make her mind as still as possible—any motion you saw in the water was evidence of Park’s mind beginning to wander. Euonia II is all about expressing emotion. The 48 speakers are a nod to the 48 emotions the philosopher Baruch Spinoza described in his book Ethics.
Park’s project isn’t a reflection of all 48 of Spinoza’s emotions. Rather, she focuses on just a few to control the water’s movement. For example, increasing her frustration levels modulates the volume of the music; the more frustrated Park becomes, the more intense the vibration of the water. When Park is calm or meditative, the frequency of the vibration slows down. She pans sound waves around the room by controlling levels of excitement and engagement. In that way, Park is effectively choreographing the movement with her mind.
It’s not a perfect science—water moves unexpectedly as the mind reacts to its environment. But you can imagine that the better Park becomes at controlling her thoughts and feelings, the more complex the instillation has the potential to become.
Eunoia is far from the first project to translate neural feedback into art. We recently featured a project that allowed people to create Pollock-esque paintings with brainwaves by popping a balloon full of paint. Other artists have also harnessed EEG headsets to paint with digital paint brushes, they’ve created knitted clothes based on brainwave patterns and plenty of musicians have created EEG-enabled audio installations. Lisa Park’s work is just another example of this exploration, but it feels intensely visceral compared to most.
In Eunoia II you can practically feel Park’s thoughts radiating from her brain straight to the pools of water. If only all human emotion were this easy to read.
Co-founder of Brandplay, a brand strategy firm, Stacey Kramer also founded Word for Word, a naming and branding consultancy serving national and global companies from big, recognizable names to next year’s newsmaking startups.
In 2009, Kramer found herself confronting a terrifying diagnosis: a CAT scan revealed she had a brain tumor — the size of a golf ball. She told her remarkable, personal story at TED2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKbet4RdSo4
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