A public mental beacon for the excitement and fascinations felt throughout the night.

Participants have the chance to broadcast their inner brain wave activity into the night sky of Santa Monica. created "The Amazing Mental Scope", an installation that uses a Neurosky EEG headset to project this experience into a spectacular lighting display at the end of the Santa Monica Pier at the dusk to dawn light and technology art festival.

A new and emerging generation of EEG (Electroencephalography) devices is beginning to help shed light on the brain's unknown regions. With the NeuroSky EEG headset, a device that measures the electrical activity in the brain, infranatural has been able to use the advances in technology for "brain" health spas and video games to externalize the delicate palette of inner emotions through real-time analysis of alpha and beta waves within the brain.

Users are outfitted with the headset and positioned to look out at the pulse of the night's activity as it unfolds on the pier. The Amazing Mental Scope captures reactions to the sensorial environment, and transform these reactions into an emotive light sculpture, in essence creating a public mental beacon for the excitement and fascinations felt throughout the night.

By Didier Hess & Lutyens