VART3510 - AkE Internship :: Intention Statement

VART3510 - AkE Internship :: Intention Statement

1. What you hope to gain from your experience at your host organisation

2. Your schedule at the organisation

3. The tasks or special project you have been assigned to

4. Information about the host organisation and why you selected this organisation in relation to your own career ambitions

I aim to learn and work within the framework of scientific research whilst exploring the potential for audio as a basis for academic study. I also aim to work toward a publishable paper of my findings. I will be developing skills that can be applied to development of gestural interfaces and installation artworks, exploring the articulation of raw brainwave data with hydraulic kinetic gestures. 

I have booked AkE Lab every Tuesday from 9:00am - 1:30pm for the duration of my Internship. In this time I will be developing the necessary software to undertake the research project and consequentially observing and recording the results of a small selection of participants. I have arranged a sample group of RMIT sound students to participate in the study which I will be balancing with a control group of non sound focused volunteers.

I will be conducting a volunteer based research study into brainwave entrainment via specific audio cues. I will also be experimenting with the use of specific audio stimuli as a modulation source for realtime EEG data driven gestures of the Thruxim Motion System based at AkE Lab, RMIT University Melbourne. The study will be supervised by Darrin Verhagen, but will be entirely self directed. I will be journaling the development process with preparatory research, technical notes and personal reflection.

AkE (pronounced "ache") is a multidisciplinary research, teaching and learning laboratory using motion simulators and 4D cinema seating to explore relationships between sound, movement and vision.  AkE Lab presented an opportunity to work on an academic research project on campus at RMIT. This opens exciting pathways at a postgraduate level.