olaf mooij: braincar

the 'braincar' by olaf mooij
image © gé hirdes


'braincar' is a mobile sculpture created by rotterdam artist olaf mooij, featuring a large brain-like extrusion on the back
of a modified used car. by day, the vehicle captures and stores images and video from its travels. by night, this footage is remixed,
projected from within the brain sculpture and visible from the outside.

mooij's body of work involves the alteration of motor vehicles, in pieces that express the nearly psychological connection
between drivers and their cars, or that convert vehicles into a kind of mobile sculpture architecture, as in 'DJ mobile'
or the sofa-like 'chesterfield car'. with 'braincar', mooij questioned what it would be like if instead the car itself
could experience with a kind of consciousness its own passage through spacetime.



video of the 'braincar' 'dreaming' at night



3/4 rear view
image © olaf mooij



night view
image © olaf mooij



view of the 'brain' at night
image © uwe weber



additional night view
image © uwe weber



the car on the highway
image © eric fecken



design process: 'braincar' collage



design process: 'braincar' model



design process: computer renderings



building the 'braincar'



shaping the brain



view of vehicle almost completed