Enheduanna – A Manifesto of Falling: first demonstration of a live brain-computer cinema performance with multi-brain BCI interaction for one performer and two audience members

The new commercial-grade Electroencephalography (EEG)-based Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have led to a phenomenal development of applications across health, entertainment and the arts, while an increasing interest in multi-brain interaction has emerged. In the arts, there is already a number of works that involve the interaction of more than one participants with the use of EEG-based BCIs. However, the field of live brain-computer cinema and mixed-media performances is rather new, compared to installations and music performances that involve multi-brain BCIs. In this context, we present the particular challenges involved. We discuss Enheduanna – A Manifesto of Falling, the first demonstration of a live brain-computer cinema performance that enables the real-time brain-activity interaction of one performer and two audience members; and we take a cognitive perspective on the implementation of a new passive multi-brain EEG-based BCI system to realise our creative concept. This article also presents the preliminary results and future work

Do master narratives change among High School Students?: a characterization of how national history is represented

Master narratives frame students’ historical knowledge, possibly hindering access to more historical representations. A detailed analysis of students’ historical narratives about the origins of their own nation is presented in terms of four master narrative characteristics related to the historical subject, national identification, the main theme and the nation concept. The narratives of Argentine 8th and 11th graders were analyzed to establish whether a change toward a more complex historical account occurred. The results show that the past is mostly understood in master narrative terms but in the 11th grade narratives demonstrate a more historical understanding. Only identification appears to be fairly constant across years of history learning. The results suggest that in history education first aiming at a constructivist concept of nation and then using the concept to reflect on the national historical subject and events in the narrative might help produce historical understanding of a national past.This article was written with the support of projects EDU-2010-17725 (DGICYT, Spain) and PICT-2008-1217 (ANPCYT, Argentina), coordinated by the first author. We are grateful for that support

Narration of Cultural Heritage as Antifragile Tool

In our contemporary, multicultural and globalizing society, what can help a fragile territory and community in the protection of its cultural heritage? While walking through a territory, you can realize how it offers itself as a story in continuous elaboration, able to give back ancient and authentic memories, but also to build new ones that can generate opportunities. In this sense, the ancient and spontaneous practice of narration can become an innovative antifragile tool: as an inclusive action for marginal individuals; as a new protection practice for small museums; as an opportunity that facilitates local development processes of depopulated territories, for tourists but also for communities themselves. After a discussion on the topic of narration and its antifragile abilities, we will describe the case of VENTO crossing Casale Monferrato, a small town in the Italian region of Piedmont. VENTO is a project for a cycle route that crosses northern Italy and hopes to mend the identity weave of depopulated territories, generating jobs through the narrative ability of the slow line