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The first iteration of the project was an exploration of the urban geography of Victoria, BC with an eye to its potentially (magnetic) attractive qualities -- and a documentation of the exploration. What results is both benign (in the sense that we are literally "sticking our heads" to various urban objects) and volatile (in the sense that there is some uncertainty as to the results of prolonged magnetic exposure). The second iteration of the project was a repeat performance in Calgary, AB where we increased both the number and intensity of the magnets and the duration of the wandering. Most recently we have turned to video for time-based documentations of the actions, constraining activity by using perimeter fences as the magnetic surfaces for interaction.

and then it made us wonder more...

Doug Jarvis wondered what would happen if he put magnets on his head and watched disaster movies. Do magnets amplify sympathetic response? Does the disaster video cause the brain to disregard the impact of the magnets? Or, does the brainwave monitor somehow know what's going on -- and strangely lets the machines be sympathetic too?

Jackson 2bears wondered if he could think Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata into existence -- not because it wasn't already there but because there is something at stake in the question of whether we can remember it at all. Thinking into the brainwave sensors -- activated by magnets -- conjuring the virtual keyboard that plays his mind out loud.

Ted Hiebert wondered how many magnets you'd have to put together to get them to stick through a human head. A few of them together stick through a hand, so it makes sense that the magnetic field could be extended -- risking either a magnetic wipe for the mind or a moment of magnetically induced transcendence.