Biography

Johnny Tomasiello is a multidisciplinary artist and composer-researcher living and working in New York. His work employs methodologies across media, and is informed by research into history and technology, neuroscience, and social movements. Drawing on custom-built instruments and software, his work references mechanisms of expression and experience through storytelling, translation and abstraction.

Starting his artistic career as a painter, Tomasiello soon began to focus on the psychophysiological implications of interactive works as stimuli, assisting with, and performing, medical research on heart rate variability biofeedback. It represented a move away from making objects, and towards making processes. It was also the beginning of an exploration of the validity of using the scientific method as an artistic process for him. This evolved into research and artworks that investigate the neurological effects of modulating brainwaves and their corresponding physiological processes through neuro- and bidirectional feedback.

Concerned with maintaining a balance between the mindfulness an experience was meant to inspire, and the meaningfulness of the result, he has continued to refine his work in interactive computer-assisted compositional performance systems and Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) that create, manipulate, and deconstruct audio and visuals, as well as physiological responses. He has lectured on the subject, performed live, and shown in galleries around the world.
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