Cerebral interaction and painting

The research focuses on combination of novel technology and traditional art. In this paper, a novel interactive art installation (IAI) using user's thought to interact with a digital Chinese ink painting is introduced. Meanwhile, the final purpose of this research is to establish a link between novel technology and traditional arts and further to bring out traditional art philosophy by taking the advantages of novel technology. Finally, this research aims to help people understand not only the visual expression of an art, but also its philosophy and spirit through different kinds of interaction. Based on this, the theory research focuses on four parts: traditional art philosophy, artistic and cognitive psychology, traditional art, novel technology. Meanwhile, for practice, a Chinese style IAI experiment including brain waves control technology is introduced to help people better understand the purpose of this research.