Forma Mentis is an immersive experience: a wearable reader picks up how your mind shifts, and turns those changes into a visual work that exists only once.
A non-invasive sensor picks up how your brain activity changes during the experience. What normally stays invisible becomes creative material, and takes part in the birth of a visual work that exists only once.
Explore the technologyA short guided journey. A work born from your own brain activity.
The four steps
A non-invasive reader rests gently on your forehead and behind your ears, picking up how your brain activity changes throughout the experience.
For about two minutes you move through listening, imagination, memory and focus. Each phase stirs the mind in its own way, while the reader follows the changes.
The system reads what has been gathered and turns it into creative parameters. Rhythm, intensity and balance shape the forms, the colours and the composition of the work.
At the end of the journey the work appears on screen, little by little. A single image, born from the way your brain activity moved in that precise moment.
What you are watching is a real demonstration: this work was born from brain activity recorded during a participant's session.
Every work comes from the meeting between the data gathered during the experience and the visual language of Forma Mentis. That is why each result is personal and unrepeatable.
You have moved through sound, images, memory and focus. Now let your work reveal itself, little by little.
Offer your audience an immersive experience that turns each participant's brain activity into a work of art of their own.
Three settings, one promise: no two experiences will ever be the same.
Forma Mentis makes the visitor an active part of the creative process. The experience can be woven into the exhibition route and shaped around the show, the collection and the identity of the venue.
A new way to draw the public in, and to make every visit personal and memorable.
An original experience for corporate events, trade fairs, launches, festivals and private occasions. Each guest follows a personal journey and watches their own brain activity become a visual work that exists only once.
A moment that creates involvement, wonder, and something to take home.
Forma Mentis turns the brain activity recorded during a personal experience into a visual work from which a unique tattoo can grow. The artist keeps full creative freedom, reading the work and adapting it to the body, the style and the story of the person.
Not a design picked from a catalogue, but the starting point of a tattoo born from a real moment.
Reading what normally stays invisible
Electroencephalography, or EEG, is a non-invasive technique that records the brain's electrical activity through sensors placed against the surface of the head.
As it works, the brain produces extremely faint electrical changes, generated by the coordinated activity of nerve cells. The wearable device picks these signals up passively throughout the session, sending nothing back and interfering with nothing.
The signals are then processed to follow several frequency bands, among them alpha, beta, theta, delta and gamma. Forma Mentis uses the changes it finds to derive measures such as focus, calm, energy, complexity and balance, which become part of how the image is generated.
The data is never used to read thoughts, memories or particular emotions, and it offers no medical or diagnostic assessment. It is the trace of brain activity recorded in that precise moment, translated into the visual language of Forma Mentis.
We do not read what you think: we follow how your brain activity changes, and turn that into creative material.
From Milan to London, from Berlin to Madrid: we bring the Forma Mentis experience to the most important cities on the continent.
Whether you want to fully rely on us or take the experience anywhere, we have the tailor-made solution for you.
Every Forma Mentis® event begins from a unique idea: yours.
We take care of everything: from concept to setup, from personalising the visual content to on-site technical management on event day. We design fully bespoke experiences shaped around each client's needs, goals and context — every detail is crafted to deliver an engaging, innovative, high-impact event.
Whether for companies, professionals, schools, institutions, healthcare venues or private events, our team develops made-to-measure solutions, adapting content, technology, activities and format to the client's specific requirements.
With Forma Mentis® there are no standard events: every project is unique, built to create value, stir emotion and leave a lasting impression on every participant.
Buy the complete system: EEG hardware, proprietary software and access to a dedicated online tutorial to learn how to use everything independently. Take the FORMA MENTIS experience wherever you want, whenever you want — with the support you need to get started right away.
Technology, art and knowledge: all in a single kit.
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It is not a name. It is a philosophical statement.
The Romans used forma mentis to describe something deep and elusive — the way a mind thinks, perceives, orients itself in the world. Not intelligence, not memory. The inner architecture of a person. Their unique way of being present.
For centuries this expression lived only in the abstract — a concept one could intuit but never see.
Until today.
Forma Mentis makes visible what has always been invisible. Through the real-time reading of brain activity, it captures your neurological signature — that unrepeatable weave of focus, calm and energy that exists only in you, only in this moment — and turns it into a one-of-a-kind generative artwork.
Your real imprint. Translated into form, colour, movement.
Every artwork is a document of existence.
A self-portrait no brush could ever paint.
Visible proof that you — in that precise instant — were exactly this.
Forma Mentis.
Your mind already has a shape. We make it eternal.
A wearable EEG reader that follows how your brain activity changes during a short guided journey, and turns it into a visual work generated on the spot.
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Yes. We create live installations for private, corporate and cultural events. Write to us through the form and select Event planning.
Every composition is born from the unrepeatable electrical signature of your mind in that precise instant. No two artworks are ever alike.
No. The kit is designed to be worn and started in a few seconds. A full guide is included, and our team is available for support.
FORMA MENTIS requires a computer (Windows 10/11 or macOS 11 or later) with at least 8 GB of RAM, 10 GB of free disk space, a free USB port and Bluetooth 4.2 or higher (LE). A stable internet connection is recommended for software updates. The system also needs to be connected to a screen or video projector for output: maximum logistical flexibility allows it to adapt to any size and placement, even leveraging the client's existing infrastructure (TV, video projector, jumbotron, LED wall and similar). Recommended projectors include: Epson EH-TW840, BenQ TH575i, Epson EF-22N. We are also available to support the client in purchasing the required video equipment (screens, projectors, projection sheets and accessories).
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