Design Exhibition Mindful Data Audiovisual Project: Real-Time AV from Biometric Signals
Design Exhibition Mindful Data Audiovisual Project: Real-Time AV from Biometric Signals
Step into a hybrid performance-installation where your body becomes the instrument. MDAP (Mindful Data Audiovisual Project) transforms real-time biometric data—brainwaves, heartbeat, breath, and movement—into immersive audiovisual experiences.
The event begins with a short talk introducing the project’s concept: how technology can be used mindfully to foster a deeper connection between body, data, and perception. This is followed by a live performance by the artist using their own biometric signals.
After the performance, audience members are invited to participate by connecting to the system and experiencing their own data translated into dynamic sound and visuals. The duration of the interactive segment may vary depending on the number of participants.
More than a tech demo, MDAP is an invitation to reimagine our relationship with technology as a symbiotic, embodied practice. It embodies Design for Impact by merging design, science, and art to reveal the inner beauty of physiological data.
About the Host
MDAP
Eng. Mario D. Alvarado (MDAP) explores hybrid projects that combine experimental practices with biofeedback sensors, musical composition, and audiovisual performance. He is a musician, composer, and creative programmer who combines technology and art to generate music using body movement, brain waves, heart rate, and breathing. Through various software algorithms and biofeedback sensors, he uses the human body and its biological processes to create audiovisual pieces, inviting the user to explore themselves as a composer and creator, resulting in a wide range of effects on the participant, which include sound therapy, mindfulness, and psychomotor exploration. MDAP has toured Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States; one of its most recent presentations was at the LA Design Festival, Mutek Mexico, and in Venice, Italy, at the opening of Pavilion 0/4 “Beyond Code and Time” organized by Mediations Biennale and World Design Capital.
