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Cerebral Sync - Week 13/13

On Thinking, Remembering, and Teaching in a Post-Pandemic Mindscape

Cerebral Sync - Week 12/13

“Every voice has a personality, even when crafted by code.”

Cerebral Sync 11/13

“Spectatorship is not silence — it is absorption, pattern recognition, and the first gesture toward curiosity.”

Cerebral Sync - Week 10/13

“Life itself is noisy; our job is to find clarity amidst the static.”

Our Daily Brain

As the whole concept of Creativity in vitro (also) revolves around the figure of the brain, I thought it would be good to surf on the momentum we created and read a book that has been...

Cerebral Sync - Week 9/13

“A gallery shows what was decided. A studio shows what is still undecidable.”

Cerebral Sync - Week 8/13

In our latest session, we (Lina & Padilha) dove into the growing ecosystem of EEG data from our helmet experiments. The meeting served as both a checkpoint and a compass—looking a...

Cerebral Sync - Week 6/13

“What does it mean to imagine with machines — or outside the body at all?”

Reimagining EEG Data for Collective Listening

EEG Data Sharing and Analysis Platforms

A neural void or how customs broke my brain

April bled into May and my brain still isn’t wired in.

Cerebral Sync - Week 5/13

Customs can block imagination—but only temporarily.

The Design of Errors

This week, we crossed paths and axes with Evaldo Fernandes de Freitas Neto — an interface alchemist, a draftsman of the unforeseen, a conductor of microfractures. Evaldo is Lead Produ...

Cerebral Sync - Week 4/13

“To map language is to trace invisible architectures — not of thought alone, but of the electric pulse that precedes it.”

Cerebral Sync - Week 3/13

“To translate brainwaves into images is not just decoding — it’s dreaming in another language.” — notebook excerpt, speculative interface study

Cerebral Sync - Week 2/13

“What does it mean to imagine with machines — or outside the body at all?”— field note from the lab

Field Note – On the Shape of a Digital Codex (with Lídia Ganhito)

Cerebral Sync - Week 1/13

[Live Lab] Architectures for Chaos

Synthetic Creativity and the Voices Within

“Our machines whisper in voices we’ve lent them; they speak from places we imagine, but perhaps they dream from places unknown.”

On the Generosity of Signals - Conversation with Dr. João Ricardo Sato

“Perhaps clarity is less about more electrodes and more about less noise.”– João Sato

Exploring the Convergence of Art and Neuroscience with Will and Karol

In our latest Creativity in vitro meeting, Eduardo Padilha and I had the pleasure of sharing our current project phase with two professionals who navigate the interstices of art, neur...

We Have no Pain in the Brain

Today we had a really interesting meeting with Dr. Marc Dusseiller, a Swiss researcher, lecturer and workshhopologist, to pick his brain (still not literally speaking) about the phase...

A Linguist Who Codes - Notes from a Conversation with Leandro Rafael Perez

Leandro Rafael Pérez is a rare kind of hybrid: a linguist by training, a reader at heart, and now a data scientist by craft. He comes from the world of letters, but never fully left i...

The Design of Errors

This week, we crossed paths and axes with Evaldo Fernandes de Freitas Neto — an interface alchemist, a draftsman of the unforeseen, a conductor of microfractures. Evaldo is Lead Produ...

Field Note on Navigating Knowledge with GraphRAG · with Gabriel Frontera

Codex Entry 047 · April 2025Participants: Lina Lopes, Eduardo Padilha, Gabriel FronteraConnected by: Pedro Terra

Field Note – On the Shape of a Digital Codex (with Lídia Ganhito)

Field Interference #01 – With Gratitude to Rodrigo Mota

“Creativity demands increasing our entropy time to time.”— Rodrigo Mota

How Do We Navigate BioArt?

A Navigation Tool

Bioart Means What?

Tracking Vocabulary Drift Across the World Using Google Alerts, Python, and OpenAI

Microbial Intimacies - From Petri Dishes to the MIT Wall

In 2019, I was deep into my obsession with fungi and mycelium. I wanted to explore their potential — materially, symbolically — but I needed more lab fluency. More protocol. More micr...

My Baby, the Machine, and Me

mm3 creativity

“How are we ever going to really come to terms with all this complexity?”

BrainFlow on macOS (Apple Silicon) with OpenBCI – Deep Dive Report

1. Origin and Background of BrainFlow

Foundations of Neurotechnology - Reading the Brain’s Grammar

When stepping into the field of neurotechnology, the first friction isn’t the hardware—it’s the language. What is the vocabulary of this space? How does one learn to listen to a brain?

When Numbers Dream of Becoming Waves

“What is a complex number if not a mathematical attempt to capture the invisible?”

Tiny Caps to Dress Mini Brains

When deep diving into the literature and references for the Residency project, I came across an article by the MIT Technology Review on tiny caps to measure electrical activity in “mi...

Neuroscience of Language Processing - Brain Regions, Lateralization, and Networks

Introduction

Revivification

Right after being selected for the CloudWalk artistic residency, I came across a serendipitous post in LinkedIn. Yes, the business-oriented platform that is definitely not famous for ...

Artworks Where Brainwaves Speak in Light, Sound and Fabric

Intro

Creative Neurotechnology - Choosing Your EEG in 2025

From Aliens to Chatty Bots - A Short History of Our Fictions

We gave machines our voice, and started looking for a soul.

Field Note on Navigating Knowledge with GraphRAG · with Gabriel Frontera

Codex Entry 047 · April 2025Participants: Lina Lopes, Eduardo Padilha, Gabriel FronteraConnected by: Pedro Terra

Bioart Means What?

Tracking Vocabulary Drift Across the World Using Google Alerts, Python, and OpenAI

EEG-Based Art Projects by South American Artists (2005–2025)

Introduction

Revivification

Right after being selected for the CloudWalk artistic residency, I came across a serendipitous post in LinkedIn. Yes, the business-oriented platform that is definitely not famous for ...

Artworks Where Brainwaves Speak in Light, Sound and Fabric

Intro

Synthetic Creativity and the Voices Within

“Our machines whisper in voices we’ve lent them; they speak from places we imagine, but perhaps they dream from places unknown.”

Inception Synaptic Garden - a First Encounter with MCP and TouchDesigner

What if your imagination could run continuously, generating images in real time, and other people could interfere—whispering thoughts, injecting metaphors, remixing your neural garden?

On the Boat of Touch Designer

A short summary

Proxy Organ #002 — The Phantom Potentiometer

Protocolo ComfyUI

On our ongoing exploration of Creativity in Vitro, where the boundaries between biological imagination and artificial cognition blur under the microscope, we opened a new window—this ...

Demo Day - A reflection on learning, signals, and collective minds at work

When the Brain Whispers, the Machine Listens

The First Upload

Part I — Data, Memory, and Toquinho

The Headset, the Customs, and the Airport Bathroom

aka: how to solder your way through bureaucracy and burn-out

What if I’m just a memory of the machine’s eye?

There’s something I rarely articulate, but maybe it’s time.

I Was Bored. Then I Gave My Memories to a Machine.

In 2024, something cracked open.

From First Cuts to Radical Futures

There’s something poetic about going back to where it all started—especially when “where” is a laser cutter in a FabLab.

The Headset, the Customs, and the Airport Bathroom

aka: how to solder your way through bureaucracy and burn-out