Bloom: The Human Condition
Thesis Faculty:
Clarinda Mac Low, Namreta Kumar, John Sharp, Andrew ZornozaA meditation installation about rooms that remember. An EEG headband, a slow visual journey, and the traces of every visitor who came before.
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love”– Carl Sagan
Bloom is a meditation installation built around the premise that some spaces can retain memory.
Visitors sit at a small table wearing an EEG headband and headphones while moving through a guided sequence of silence, attention, and release. The system integrates EEG data, motion tracking, and audio input to sense presence without requiring performance. The environment responds through subtle changes in light, sound, and visual form, prioritizing restraint and continuity over interaction.
At three points, the installation prompts reflective questions about beauty, relationships, and letting go. Responses are spoken or typed, then gradually integrated into a shared visual field where traces from previous visitors remain visible. Over time, the room accumulates these fragments, shifting reflection from an individual act to a collective one.
The work draws from Char Davies’ Osmose, Brandon Doman’s Strangers Project, the Voyager Golden Record, Juhani Pallasmaa’s The Eyes of the Skin, and Nicolas Bourriaud’s relational aesthetics, alongside personal references such as family memory, kintsugi, and lived conversation.
Built with WebGL, Kinect, and a BrainBit EEG headband, Bloom explores how stillness, when designed as an environment, can function as a medium of shared memory.
