Since I bought my first Mac in 1993, all I ever wanted to do was make digital art. Long before there was ever even a market for it I was fascinated with how far digital art could go. At the NFT Goat Pop up digital art show here in Toronto, I found out just how far.
After venturing into the basement and down a small unassuming corridor, I met the BrainBlots Team. Yasmeen, Andrew and Ali are a trio of young, stylish U of T students with a diverse range of interests from art to neuroscience to philosophy and everything in between. Before I knew just what was happening, I was putting on an EEG headset and watching my thoughts come to life right before my eyes.
I was asked to focus on a thought or a person. I chose my wife NFT Nat, who happened to be with me. We both had digital and physical art pieces in the art show that night. But nothing like this. I simply cleared my mind and thought about her. And then magically a rorschach-like symmetrical interpretation of my brain was projected on the wall in front of me.
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