Pesquisa sobre design de interação em grupo

Remote Pulse

"Remote Pulse" is an interactive installation consisting of two identical pulse-sensing stations that are interconnected over the internet. When a person places their hands on one station automatically the person on the other station feels their pulse, as the plates vibrate in sync with the heartbeat of the remote person, and vice versa. The piece was originally presented as part of Lozano-Hemmer’s "Border Tuner" installation across the US-Mexico border, with one station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and the other in El Paso, Texas.

The piece exists in two formats: outdoor plinth version and indoor wall-mounted version.

Credits

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Remote Pulse", 2019.

Shown here: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Border Tuner / Sintonizador Fronterizo, Bowie High- School / Parque Chamizal, El Paso / Ciudad Juárez, Texas / Chihuahua, United States / México, 2019.

Photo by: Monica Lozano.

 

The Public in West Bromwich, UK

The idea behind the project is to create a repository for the dreams, memories, rumours, secrets and stories that local residents choose to share. Drawers, various sizes at various heights, contain virtual on-screen flowerbeds, populated with flowers of different shapes, sizes and colours. Each flower is created from the sounds of a story left behind by a visitor. People can listen to stories left behind by others, or contribute their own to the flowerbed of their choice. Each flower created is unique, based on the visitor's ’Data Body’ (generated by the backend system powering the entire gallery) — algorithmic conversion of everything from the sound and shape of their voice to the way they spell their name.

You see before you a collection of drawers, various sizes, various heights. You get closer, tentatively open a drawer — inside is a colourful screen showing an illustrated flowerbed. A voice implores you “tell me a secret!”... You lean in towards the drawer and whisper... Your secret tickles the virtual flowers like shared pollen - as it is added to the flowerbed, a new bud starts growing and some of the other flowers release the secrets they enclose - you hear the secrets of other visitors, secrets from strangers, secrets about things you had never even thought about. As they trail off, you close the drawer. You hear whispering noises from another drawer nearby but as soon as you open it they stop and again a voice implores you to “tell me a secret!”... You notice that the flowers in this drawer are quite different from the first drawer — the very shape and size of the virtual flowers has been determined by the voices of previous secrets.

 

 

Make Out

Shadow Box 8

"Make Out" is the eight piece in the Shadow Box series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows thousands of internet videos of couples looking at each other: as soon as someone stands in front of the display his or her silhouette is shown and all the couples within it begin to kiss. The massive array of make- out sessions continues for as long as someone is in front of the work, --as he or she moves away all the kissing ends.

The collector can choose what proportion of the videos are man-woman, woman-woman or man-man. The default state is the statistically faithful proportion of the videos that are online: 50 per cent woman-woman, 30 per cent man-man and 20 per cent man- woman.Periodically, the display shows all videos in the database simultaneously. The piece exists also as a large projection or as an installation with plasma screens. In these, the detected presence of passers-by triggers a wave of kissing in huge arrays of up to 8,000 simultaneous video clips.