Project Number
- 173
Title
- Bodymaps: Artifacts of Touch (The Sensuality and Anarchy of Touch)
Description
- Interactive sound and video art installation.
Contact
- Thecla Schiphorst
Affiliation
- Digital EARTH
Address
- 1128 Rose Street
- Vancouver, British Columbia
- V5L 4K8 Canada
- Vancouver, British Columbia
- thecla@cs.sfu.ca
WWW
Year
- 1997
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "Bodymaps: Artifacts of Touch is a computer interactive sound and video installation."
- "The piece uses a specially designed sensor surface embedded with 15 electric field sensors which operate very much like 15 theramins, and 8 force-sensitive resistor sensors, which detect touch, pressure, and the amount of force applied to the surface. These sensors lie beneath a white velvet surface upon which are projected images of the artist's body."
- "The surface yearns for contact and touch. It's rule base is complex and subtle, impossible to decode. The intent of the work is to subvert the visual/objective relationship between the object and the eye, between click and drag, between analysis and power, to create a relationship between participant and technology that transgresses rules of ownership and objectivity,..."
Sight
- portrait projection
Sound
Touch
- sensor driven velvet surface
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 103 - sense cue (vis,aud,tac/ff/mo,olf,tast)
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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