Beyond Human Perception allows the audience to visualize and compare reactions of both humans and plants to a common stimulus – live music – by erasing boundaries of communication and understanding between these living forms, as well as by highlighting the immediate reactions of plants to the changes in their surroundings. The installation is the result of several sessions of recording human brain activity with EEG waves, as well as the electrical oscillations occurring in plants, measured by a sensor developed by the artists, able to detect immediate changes in plants.

The data obtained from humans and plants may be compared using mathematics, i.e., the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm. This data can also be displayed graphically, thanks to an algorithm developed by the artists, which allows the audience to see the data depicted in the shape of little spheres that move within the geometric shape of a torus. Each little sphere represents a piece of data collected. The graphic representation of human and plant data can be viewed simultaneously in a video, allowing the audience to discern patterns by comparing the reactions of both living beings to live music.

Beyond Human Perception is composed of two synchronized videos, displayed facing each other. One video features the concert for plants and humans, while the other displays the visualization of the data of both living forms’ responses during the performance.