Jacob Brawer

Jacob is an experience designer and creative technologist devoted to holistic well-being and embodied presence.

He creates multisensory environments that foster connection, regulation, and self-awareness — blending biosensing, wearable tech, and ambient design. His work spans interactive installations and facilitated practices like Body Cartography — a guided exploration of the inner landscape through sensation, movement, mapping, and reflection.

Jacob’s work bridges inner awareness and outer experience — weaving somatic practice, biofeedback, brain-computer interfacing, and multimedia design into spaces that invite presence, reflection, and embodied insight. Drawing from the body’s own intelligence, he creates environments where sensation becomes signal, and healing becomes experiential.

SELECT WORKS

Breath is universal. Whatever your practice is to connect with yourself - meditation, breath work, yoga, journaling, etc. - breath is a critical component to the experience. In this installation, we expand your breath to fill the room.

Room to [Breathe] allows you to visualize your breath by connecting respiration wearable devices to LEDs that animates the room to breath with you.

Featured at Burning Man & Same Same But Different (2024)

ROOM TO [BREATHe]
BRAINWAVERAVE

A playful reimagining of nightlife culture that’s oriented around connection.

Changing the focus from the DJ and the bar to novel interactive art that unifies the crowd. Inviting a new way to engage with social, musical environments.

Featured at The Faight Collective, Lower Haight SF (2024)

Healing Room @ GRimes Rave

A place to seek refuge after a long night on the dance floor, the healing room creates a container for visualizing self-regulation (EEG-based biofeedback) in disregulating environments.

Featured at PWR PLNT BIO/ACC Grimes Rave (2024)

MULTI-SENSORY Journaling

A tool that takes an audio-journal entry input and creates a continually updating visualization of the themeatic undertones of your entry and allows you to interact with them by moving your body (using Stable Diffusion & Xbox Kinect via TouchDesigner)

Featured at Health x Wellbeing Hackathon (50Years HQ) (2023)

The Lightboxes are ambient, living sculptures—designed to support stillness, attunement, and shared presence. More than objects, they feel like beings: quiet witnesses that shape space through breath-like rhythms and gentle glow.

Created by AND THE SUN Studio, the Lightboxes invite a subtle kind of meeting—between your own inner light and the soft intelligence of another.

LIGHTBOXES