-- Repository for SenseNet project files --
Includes:
c++ (for photons) & translated arduino libraries
Ableton & Max files for openCV color tracking and UDP/openOSC communication
Cloud based version (Particle Cloud) for remote photon integration into Max MSP
-- SenseNet --
Sensenet is a concept piece realised as an experiential installation: it is centered around alien agency within art, inspired by the neuroscience theme of how timing affects synchrony in networks. Alien agency is a property in which the artwork acts and behaves in a way outside the creators intent, and correspondingly, Sensenet will create an environment of unknown variables in which the participants are left to explore in a novel and disrupted state of perception. Furthermore, timing in synchrony is a motif that appears across different levels of neuroscience investigation, from simple learning rules at a cellular level to whole-brain oscillatory activity; it is an idea that has captured the imagination of wide audiences, making it an ideal subject for abstraction and artistic exploration.
Three participants enter the environment of Sensenet muted from their own senses; others are welcome to observe the participants in Sensenet. Each participant is equipped with a lightweight suit that is networked to all other suits, such that the senses of one participant are effectively swapped with the other participants; this enables one person to experience a warped perception of their senses. A synchronous stimulus delivered to all three participants (flashing LED lights in the environment) unifies timing across the participants, allowing each of them to synchronise the different, mismatched senses into a unified perception.
Collaborators: Owen Coolidge, Matthew Salaciak, Zahraa Chorghay, Naila Kuhlmann