The Stream Project is made up of Karen Wood, a dance practitioner/artistic researcher/educator based in Manchester where she performs, teaches and advocates for dance 
 in the region. With a doctorate in dance, Karen regularly teaches in higher education and is involved in dance research and practice. For her Masters degree at Laban, she explored neurofeedback and dance. This has evolved into the Stream Project, which has been awarded funding from Arts Council England and other institutions. Other team members include
Genevieve Say, an independent dance artist, performer and choreographer based in
Manchester; Lee Grey, a theatre technician and lighting designer; Tony Steffart who has been working with the Stream Project as a neuroscience and technological consultant and Gavin
Wayte, a musician who composes music for the concert hall and opera stage as well as for nontraditional contexts, combining dance, physical theatre, text and visual technologies with music.
Still from Wired.
Through this dynamic team, The Stream
Project brings together cutting-edge neuro-technology with contemporary dance performance, culminating in a multi-media explosion of dance, art and science. It focuses on bringing scientific exploration into a creative environment, taking full advantage of the visual and auditory possibilities already being used within the field. Wired is an exciting collaboration between dance performance, neuroscience, sound and lighting, culminating in a live-feed multimedia performance.
The project team are particularly

interested in brainwave data which uses electroencephalography (EEG), and how a performer can respond physically to the live feedback of that data either sonically or visually. In their initial piece, Wired , they used the dancer’s heart rate and respiratory volume as well as EEG to produce the sound score to which the dancer responded with improvised performance. The team worked to covert EEG and HR into movement, sound and light. The dancer’s physiology created the sound score of the work-in-progress to date. The project welcomed Dr Gavin
Wayte onto the team who composed a piece of music, which is stimulated by the dancer’s physiological data. Through the incorporation of a program coder and lighting designer, the team developed a live feedback system that reflected the dancers physiology within the moment-by-moment lighting state. This meant that all elements of the performance were created either directly, or as a response to the dancers physiological data recorded during the performance. This created a visually and sonically intriguing loop of responses.
Since this Code Creative Residency at MMU School of Art, the Stream Project have worked on
Wired:2, a slightly different performance piece. Wired:2 is an instillation piece designed for gallery spaces, and was premiered at FACT Liverpool in association with TILO in June 2014.
The performance took place on a screen rather than being a live performance, and the movement was dictated by the physiology of the viewer rather than the dancer herself. There are two fundamental differences between Wired and Wired:2. Firstly, Wired:2 used recorded footage of the dancer (Genevieve) rather than a live experience. Secondly, it is the heart rate of the viewer that changes the way in which Genevieve dances, rather than the brainwave data from Genevieve herself. The Stream Project brought on board Tim from Make Strange to create a sensor that a viewer could hold to monitor their heart rate.
This was a really exciting development for both The Stream Project team, as it put the viewer at the centre of the experience, turning their body into the choreographer/ director, and also for FACT, who have worked on the TILO project to foster this kind of public interaction in the gallery space.

The initial design for the sensor.
Wired:2 was launched at FACT on the 3 rd of June on the TILO screen located in the FACT foyer, and culminated in a live performance piece
( video link to be added when completed ).