- Title
- Augmenting a human-plant-data assemblage: the contact projects
- Creator
- Wright, Rewa; Howden, Simon
- Relation
- Conference: xCoAx 2020. Proceedings of the Eight Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (Graz, Austria 08-10 July, 2020) p. 268-284
- Publisher
- Universidade do Porto
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Through the Contact Projects an iterative series of three artworks (Contact Zone, Contact/Sense and Signaletic Flow 2.0) we experiment with performance techniques within the medium of head-mounted Mixed Reality (MR). Combining gestural, computer vision, tactile and sonic instruments with physical bodies (human and plant) the concept is to generate a different mode of MR from the dominant paradigms being advanced by industrial and commercial interests. This research investigates potential for multimodal performance in MR using a bespoke technical set-up that combines the HTC Vive (with Leap Motion headmounted), the MIDI Sprout interface, Logic X, Touch Designer and Unity 3D. Playing with experimental physical techniques for affectively cocomposing with expressive conjunctions of augmented materials (both digital and organic), we perform through processual strategies such as: modulating augmented data in real-time; sonifying bio-electrical signals from plants; choreographing hand micro-gestures to weave tactile and signaletic connections with plants and digital augments; and, passing augments through the Leap Motion interface in a head mounted configuration, while sending plant signals to Touch Designer. We propose a new method, technique, and practices for performing with MR environments and various interface technologies, informed by embodiment and electro acoustics, and underscored by new materialism and critical posthumanism.
- Subject
- mixed reality; software assemblages; plant-human ecology; augmented reality; embodiment; critical posthumanism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1426395
- Identifier
- uon:38409
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789897462665
- Language
- eng
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