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Brainbar is a bar which serves you the drink you deserve. According to your state of mind at the time of ordering the drink, your brainwaves determine the metabolism between the machine and your own body. 

Brainbar is a mechanical bar that mixes drinks according to the visitor's brainwaves. The bar reads the brain frequencies (EEG or electroencephalogram) in the alpha and beta wavelength. These wavelengths are generally considered to be synonymous with the states of relaxation and activity in the mind. Thus the BrainBar serves the drink most suited for you, at the moment of measurement. BrainBar can be seen as a mediator or manipulator designed to give a party its perfect state of enhanced socialising, carefully adjusting the drinks served so that every guest stays within acceptable parameters for a “good” behaviour or, if the settings allow, a “bad” behaviour. By the use of alcohol and medical herb essences, the bar can emotionally equalize or polarize the group of guests. This can be seen as a sociological experiment exploring how much a person is prepared to submit to external forces and how far the person can allow a machine to intrude on the body.

The guest places the headband with biosensors on the forehead and then places the glass in the cylinder on the bar’s front side, to begin the reading. The biosensors then measure the state of the guest’s brain activity levels –shown with a flashing red light. The bar then administers the proper fluids for the guest’s psyche from the eight bottles and when the lamp flashes green the guest is allowed to remove the glass and enjoy the drink. The person can then join the party, confident that the fluids reacting with the internal metabolism are going to enhance the experience of that particular social event.

As a confirmation on the measurement of the subject's state of mind, the guest also receives a receipt: for the payment of the drink.

A visitor using brainbar. Photo: Smart studio. brainbar05.jpg (0.7 MB)	Brainbar. Photo: Loove Broms brainbar220073.tif (7.3 MB)	Brainbar. Photo: Smart studio. brainbar_close.jpg (0.3 MB)
Brainbar. Photo: Smart studio. brainbar_2.jpg (0.4 MB)	Brainbar at doga, Oslo. Photo: Fredrik Petersson. brainbar1486.jpg (963 kB)	Brainbar (detail). Photo: Pernilla Edholm. oslo16.jpg

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KEYWORDS
metabolism · integrity · immaterial currency

PEOPLE
Thomas Broomé · Ingvar Sjöberg

LINKS
brainbar project

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