This installation transports visitors inside the artist’s brain via a retro-future “thinking cap,” allowing them to tune into and discover its many channels and sonic imprints including conversations, collaborations, music, memory, hopes, fears and dreams.

In this ‘sonic self-portrait’, “musical weirdo and visionary” Beatie Wolfe presents a new format for the digital age: a data-encoded “Thinking Cap” tailored by renowned fashion designer Mr Fish as a counterpart to their award-winning, wearable Album Jacket.

Via retro listening stations plugged into the hat, the audience will be able to listen to and explore the brain’s many channels which include music (occipital lobe), conversations (temporal lobe), collaborations (frontal lobe), memory (hippocampus), fears and philosophy (cerebral cortex). The data related to each “brain channel” has been encoded in glass and woven into the cap using ecological technology designed to preserve data for up to 10,000 years.

Drawing on Wolfe’s dementia and music research work, this installation takes a creative and playful look at the nature of neurology and explores the importance of imprinting in the digital age – a philosophical principle and overarching theme of Wolfe’s work. ‘imPRINTING’ shows the audience the possibilities of gaining a greater understanding of ourselves and of one another in the process.