this week, we re revisiting the tech that we ve seen used in and around the world of art. and the first question i have is, what is lara thinking right now? do i like it? does it make me feel happy, sad? ammie s gone to town to test the newest, oldest cameras we ve seen for a while. paul heads to florence to see how tech is revealing a 17th century artwork. and we re on the stage helping musicians get used to what it feels like to get a standing ovation, or a slow clap. how did it do that? the v&a london, home to 145 galleries of works from across the globe, spanning 5,000 years of art. museums like this are always looking at new ways to engage audiences. one idea here to see how our brains react to what we re seeing. we often talk about how art makes us feel or what it gets us thinking about. well, today it s time for a way of quantifying that. so we re just going to put this on your head here. 0k. just goes behind your ears. this muse headset, which would more commonly be
the v&a london, home to 145 galleries of works from across the globe, spanning 5,000 years of art. museums like this are always looking at new ways to engage audiences. one idea here to see how our brains react to what we re seeing. we often talk about how art makes us feel or what it gets us thinking about. well, today it s time for a way of quantifying that. so we re just going to put this on your head here. 0k. just goes behind your ears. this muse headset, which would more commonly be used as a meditation device, has been repurposed to translate brain activity into a real time 3d visualisation. and this has four eeg sensors. that s right, four sensors that are on your forehead and picking up the electromagnetic activity off your brain. 0k. and what does that mean its going to learn from me? it s going to take this raw data right off your headset. 0ur set up processes it in lots of different ways, which kind of indicate sort of what your brain s doing when you re looking
from across the globe, spanning 5,000 years of art. museums like this are always looking at new ways to engage audiences. one idea here to see how our brains react to what we re seeing. we often talk about how art makes us feel or what it gets us thinking about. well, today it s time for a way of quantifying that. so we re just going to put this on your head here. 0k. just goes behind your ears. this muse headset, which would more commonly be used as a meditation device, has been repurposed to translate brain activity into a real time 3d visualisation. and this has four eeg sensors. that s right, four sensors that are on your forehead and picking up the electromagnetic activity off your brain. 0k. and what does that mean it s going to learn from me? it s going to take this raw data right off your headset. 0ur set up processes it in lots of different ways, which kind of indicate sort of what your brain s doing when you re looking at the art. when the brain recognises - somet
things seem to have got a little bit more excitable at this point. what does that mean? yeah, these golden highlights that are coming in are something that we ve put into the system, and they re triggered by recognition, when you see something that you recognise. 0h, that ll be the point that i saw the ladies for the first time that looked like a blur initially. exactly. and then some other things are happening, like we ve isolated the beta range in your brainwave spectrum, and that s what s making the ribbons get fatter. and then we ve got two. and what does that mean? it probably means you re concentrating. it s sort of, the beta range in your, in the brainwave spectrum is conscious thought. what have you learned so far from people using this? the biggest variation is from one person to another. huge differences between the way one person takes in a piece of art and another, particularly people, neurodiverse people. people with things like adhd have a very different reaction to art.
and that s due to sort of problem solving. you re trying to make sense of what you re seeing. this was when i was looking at the degas. things seem to have got a little bit more excitable at this point. what does that mean? yeah, these golden highlights that are coming in are something that we ve put into the system, and they re triggered by recognition, when you see something that you recognise. 0h, that ll be the point that i saw the ladies for the first time that looked like a blur initially. exactly. and then some other things are happening, like we ve isolated the beta range in your brainwave spectrum, and that s what s making the ribbons get fatter. and then we ve got two. and what does that mean? it probably means you re concentrating. it s sort of, the beta range in your, in the brainwave spectrum is conscious thought. what have you learned so far from people using this? the biggest variation is from one person to another. huge differences between the way one person takes in a