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FeralAIRs - Antoni Rayzhekov

Our first FeralAIR of 2019 is a long time Smith. Congratulations to Antoni Rayzhekov and his project BOREOUT.

BOREOUT is a brain-controlled participatory visual installation in which the visitor is invited to unveil a secret image only when a high level of disengagement is detected in his/her brain activity by a computer system. In other words: If the visitor is bored enough, the secret image will be assembled into its original form by the machine and can be seen.  As a consequence of such an experience the visitor's engagement and interest might increase, which will eventually cause the image to go back out of “focus”. As a result it is possible the image to oscillate between focused and unfocused state driven by the visitor's tendency to either boredom or attention. The machine will provide a new secret image for every new visitor. The project “BOREOUT” examines a novel way of technology employment in cognitive based art practice, known as Affective Computing.

The term “boreout” is  a neologism, coined by Peter Werder and Philippe Rothlin in 2007,describing a condition related to Boredom Burnout Syndrome occurring in the absence of meaningful tasks, rather than the presence of stress. Boreout consists of three elements: boredom, lack of challenge, and lack of interest. [Wikipedia] 

Antoni Rayzhekov is an interdisciplinary artist working in the field of music, theatre and digital arts born in Sofia, Bulgaria and currently living in Vienna, Austria. He has a master degree in theatre directing and bachelor in drama acting at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts "Krastyo Sarafov" (Sofia, Bulgaria). He studied jazz improvisation at the Vienna Konservatorium / jazz department (Austria) and computer programming at LearningTree (London, UK) and was an IT consultant for the United Nations Office, Vienna. He is a co-founder of the Vienna-based New Media label THIS.PLAY[2013], focused on interactive technologies and art, and a associate lecturer since 2012 in the Media and Digital Technologies (Interactive Media / Experimental Media) at the University for Applied Science (St. Pölten, Austria) and since 2016, a guest lecturer at the National Academy of Art (Digital Arts MA program / "Performative Media") - Sofia, Bulgaria. He is a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude [2015-2017] - Stuttgart, Germany and Akademie Hallein [2014] - Hallein, Austria. For his works, he obtained awards, fellowships and grants from ProHelvetia, Soros Foundation, ComputerSpace, Ministry of culture - Bulgaria, BKA - Austria, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Akademie Hallein, among others. more

FeralAIR was enabled by Feral labs network.  Feral Lab Network is a network of temporary dislocated hubs for research in art, technology and communities.  Feral Lab Network partners: Zavod Projekt Atol (ZPA), PIFcamp, Finnish Society of Bioart,  Radiona.org, CATCH, Makery.info and us Schmiede.

Feral Labs Network is a project enabled by Creative Europe.