Synchronicity: Brain Network 
(Cyberdoktor)
What we at DTI present at TELEPOLIS is intended to represent a new relationship between the human brain and materials. Its concept may go beyond thoughts - for example, the simple things we believe such as "tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life", or our hopes for physical longevity. Because your spiritual activity could be kept as data even if your physical part were to disappear. "Living on the network" could take on a whole new meaning.
Brain waves are under scrutiny by researchers everywhere. Some of the latest reports say that brain waves can be used for controlling equipment if certain types of brain waves can be achieved, or for communication without speech. (These particular technologies are still at too early a stage to have any practical application.)
At the UCLA Medical Center, for example, brain wave data are uploaded to a LAN for reviews of patients' brain waves by the Department of Neurosurgery. In addition, the LAN is connected to the Internet, allowing a review of patients' vital signs and brain wave patterns from anywhere with Net access.
In a future art project, an object glows in a water-filled tank in the center of a room. It moves from time to time, like a living creature. Cables run from the creature to a computer. The computer contains brain wave data which make the creature move. The creature responds to the recorded brain waves as if controlled by a brain. Also, it opens a communication line when another computer detects certain brain waves. The system allows observers to transmit their own brain waves to the creature when they place sensors against their foreheads while touching a monitor. The observers can make the creature move, and initiate a phone line connection without any physical action, if his or her brain waves are controlled properly. If these brain wave data were recorded to the hard disk of the computer, the same action could be repeated over and over.
The above is just a system analyzing and responding to brain waves as electromagnetic waves; it unfortunately doesn't really understand the contents of the brain wave data. We can not see the contents of memory, thought, will and other spiritual activities of the brain at this stage. However, even this might be possible someday.
20th century visual art was not able to totaly free our recognition and aesthetic values from seeing. Many artists - Dadaists, Surrealists, Marcel Duchamp and countless more - have tried to surpass those limitations, but none have succeeded. Most artists haven't recognized that the eye is an unstable optical sensing organ connected to the brain, which is a mechanism making use of electrical and chemical reactions. But, for us, it is not necessary to stick to aesthetic values in the art context because what we are approaching is a totally new shift in cognition. It's totally different.