Jacob Brawer
Jacob is an experience designer & creative technologist with a deep interest in fostering holistic well-being. He builds multi-sensory environments - utilizing wearable devices and ambient technology to facilitate connection and co-regulation. His installations are are inherently interdisciplinary, sitting at the intersection of: affective neuroscience, BCI, somatics, biosensing, multi-media/LED art and human-centered design.
SELECT WORKSBreath is universal. Whatever your practice is to connect with yourself - meditation, breath work, yoga, journaling, etc. - breath is a critical component to the experience. In this installation, we expand your breath to fill the room.
Room to [Breathe] allows you to visualize your breath by connecting respiration wearable devices to LEDs that animates the room to breath with you.
Featured at Burning Man & Same Same But Different (2024)
ROOM TO [BREATHe]BRAINWAVERAVEA playful reimagining of nightlife culture that’s oriented around connection.
Changing the focus from the DJ and the bar to novel interactive art that unifies the crowd. Inviting a new way to engage with social, musical environments.
Featured at The Faight Collective, Lower Haight SF (2024)
Healing Room @ GRimes RaveA place to seek refuge after a long night on the dance floor, the healing room creates a container for visualizing self-regulation (EEG-based biofeedback) in disregulating environments.
Featured at PWR PLNT BIO/ACC Grimes Rave (2024)
MULTI-SENSORY JournalingA tool that takes an audio-journal entry input and creates a continually updating visualization of the themeatic undertones of your entry and allows you to interact with them by moving your body (using Stable Diffusion & Xbox Kinect via TouchDesigner)
Featured at Health x Wellbeing Hackathon (50Years HQ) (2023)