Discrete Terrain: Windows on Five Emotions
Eva Lee

Detail of multi-channel digital video installation
5min 29sec, dimensions approx 6ft high x 18ft wide, 2007

VIDEO (excerpt, 2min 5sec)

"What does your emotional landscape look like? This work invites you to view the inner world of twelve individuals who participated in a study on the brain basis of emotions. Using data from EEG readings of the twelve subjects during five emotional states (anger, joy, fear, sadness, and disgust), artist Eva Lee and composer Manly Romero have created a visual and auditory journey through the discrete terrain of subjective experience." --Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Research conducted by Dr. James Coan, Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Virginia. Sound by Manly Romero.

Made possible in part by the support of The MacDowell Colony.

Aldrich Undercover, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, November 21, 2008, 7-9pm

Colloquium, presenting Discrete Terrain, Bard College. Thursday, December 4th, 2008, 4pm.

"All Over the Map," Kohler Arts Center. February 15-May 10, 2009.

"Aesthetics and Function of Visualization in Art and Science," panel discussion, Bard College. Friday, October 10, 2008, 5-8:30pm.

WICN, 90.5 FM, Inquiry, Sunday, August 10, 9:30-10pm.
Interview by radio host Mark Lynch to discuss the making of and inspiration for Discrete Terrain, recently on view at the DeCordova Museum. Click here to listen online.