Lose Yourself: Controlling the Model

Lose Yourself: Controlling the Model is an installation that brings together live EEG, Arabic Sufi music, and Islamic geometric patterns. As participants sit with the work, their biosignals influence the colors and movement of the projected image. With time, they may find that stillness and self-regulation help settle the visual system, giving them a sense of control over it. What they do not initially know is that their biosignal data is also being used to train a model that changes what future participants will experience. At the end, the work reveals what was collected and how their session affected the system. They can then choose to preserve their contribution, delete it, or distort it before passing it on. The work asks what control means when an interaction that feels personal also becomes training data.