SENSible Program
Cinema of Tomorrow: the Narrative controlled by the Brain?
Cinéma de demain: la narration dirigée par la pensée?
 

Description | Il ne reste que quelques places ! Complet ! Free entry
Monday November 5 // 18:30-19:30 // GDM venue (PITOËFF 2)
 
Over the last decade there has been increasing use of immersive technologies as research tools in cognitive science and neuroscience. This round table discussion aims to present and question different projects that blur the line between scientific experiment and cinematographic storytelling, through the use of interfaces such as virtual reality and brain-reading headsets that measure personality traits and emotions.

The discussion will be preceded and followed by two screenings of The MOMENT, the first short film controlled by the human mind.

With :
 
Richard Ramchurn (director of The MOMENT, UK)
Richard Ramchurn is currently completing a PhD in Brain Controlled Cinema at the Mixed Reality Lab. Founder of creative agency AlbinoMosquito, he is a practicing artist working across film and digital technologies. His work explores creating content that affectively adapts to viewers in real time. His new brain-controlled film The MOMENT explores real-time narrative recombination and passive interaction and is currently touring internationally.
braincontrolledmovie.co.uk
 
João Rodrigues (EPFL, PT/CH)
João Rodrigues is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he studies the impact of stress on human behaviour. He is a published author in the area of brain connectivity, neurofeedback and sport sciences, aiming at both the methodological challenges and clinical applications. His current research methodologies combine virtual reality environments with machine learning techniques to study the links between personality, behavior, brain activity and physiology.

 
Miriam Reiner (BrainVu, I)
Miriam Reiner is the director of the Virtual Reality and Neurocognition lab and studies neural mechanisms of human enhancement in VR/AR, and brain computer interfaces. She recently developed a method to extract brain/emotional responses from eye-dynamics from distance. She was appointed as an associate professor at the Technion, visiting professor at Stanford,  NTU, UNC at Chappel Hill and served as an expert on EU committees e.g. started ’Presence’ in the EU. In 2016 she founded BrainVu based on her IP, which was recently acquired by Mantis-Vision. Miriam is now the Vice President for Innovation at Mantis-vision. 
 https://www.brainvu.com
 
Moderation: Matthieu Hoffstetter (Vice Editor-in-Chief at Bilan, CH)
 
Round table in English, with simultaneous translation in French
http://www.srgssr.ch/fr/
https://prohelvetia.ch/fr/
http://www.bak.admin.ch/index.html?lang=fr
http://www.mediadesk.ch/a-propos-industrie-film-europe/
http://www.swissperform.ch/nc/fr/page-daccueil.html
http://www.ville-geneve.ch/
http://www.bilan.ch