{"id":334,"date":"2008-02-06T12:35:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomideas.net\/?p=334"},"modified":"2008-02-06T12:35:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:35:43","slug":"artistic-bci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Artistic BCI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon hearing first of BCI (brain-computer interface) technology several years ago, my first thought was not &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t this be useful for medical patients?&#8221;, but rather &#8220;this holds an amazing amount of promise in the arts&#8221;. Everyone seems to be thinking about low level spatial movements &#8211; things on the order of controlling limbs with thoughts or &#8211; if they&#8217;re ambitious &#8211; moving pointers across a screen. None of them seem to be thinking thoughts such as &#8220;Can we decode artistic or musical ideas and represent them instantly on a computer?&#8221; Now <i>that<\/i> would be amazing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a significant research challenge, but the idea needs to be present before the research can begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon hearing first of BCI (brain-computer interface) technology several years ago, my first thought was not &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t this be useful for medical patients?&#8221;, but rather &#8220;this holds an amazing amount of promise in the arts&#8221;. Everyone seems to be thinking about low level spatial movements &#8211; things on the order of controlling limbs with thoughts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}