REFLECTING JCC

Reflecting JCC, Brain Research II” (Simó, 2008) is an interactive installation that reflects on philosophical and scientific views of the “self”. By means of a TableTop interface users explore the emotions, feelings and thoughts of a person just by touching the different areas of a brain map. This project presents an original narrative with digital imagery that is projected on four surfaces and that also has a physical counter part, organic objects that appear in the projections are also physically present in the installation to confront users with the reality of the narrative.

In JCC the user explores the mind of a person whose emotions disturb his reasoning. Provided with a map of JCC’s brain, the user establishes connections among his perceptions, thoughts, memories and the external world. The user explores his mind and consciousness, his feelings. At the same time, the user investigates brain function at different levels, some scientific and others more in the realm of the fantastic.

This work offers a reflection on the prejudices that influences our view of mental illness and the person who suffers from it, as well as medical-pharmacological interventions to normalize human behaviour and solve social conflicts.

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Who are we and how do we fit into the rest of the world?
How does human reality relate to the rest of reality?...
What does it mean to be human?
(Searle 2004)

Consciousness is at once the most elusive and most encumbered of intellectual concepts in philosophy and religion,
for the nature of ipsity, the nature of subjectivity, and the nature of memory are all implicated in its description.
(Zoloth 2006)

The self “is essentially a set of [conscious and unconscious] memories”, and as for most scientist the self is also “multifaceted”, that is,
a combination of our genes and experiences (perceptions, memories and emotions).
(LeDoux 2003)

JCC Colaborations:
JCC_MartaMur_Malpertius_ L'Mono_Performers
MartaAyala_Projections_setUp
AlbertoTorcal_Drawings
EnrikeHurtado_Sound
jm_BlackCirclesTexts
EveTramullas_CaveVideo
LucíaSimó_Concepts_Neuroscience_Bioethics
MariMar_Production

Acknowledgments:
LABCOM - Laboratório de Comunicação e Conteúdos Online
LIMI - Laboratório de Instalaçãos Multimédia Interativas
Departamento de Comunicação e Artes
Universidade da Beira Interior