Connectome is an interactive AV installation which is controlled by the movement of the spectators. The installation is based on neuroscientific research of the connectome: the complete map of all neural connections in our brain.

Neuroscientific research into the connectome aims at mapping all neural connections in our brain. Scientists suspect that what makes you you, finds its source in the connections between your neurons. This means that our essence as human beings is situated in ever-changing connections, leaving our ‘being’ in constant flux.

Connectome consists of three hemispheres containing rotating hemispheres that are a speaker on one side and a controlled LED on the other. Both the light and sound can be directed outwards as well as inwards. The audience is placed in this spatial organism, like the way our brain moves and distorts. Connectome is a fluctuating between people’s conscious and unconscious choices.

The highly sensitive character plays with the controllability of the experience of people and, therefore, the stimulation and experience of their own changeable nature. 

In Connectome, one experiences not only their own influence and relationship to the installation but also that of one’s fellow visitor who, by making contact with another object, forms the experience together.