A number of artists are working with system and interface design based on consciousness or the attention of physical awareness. Of particular note is the work of Canadian artist Char Davies whose VR piece, Osmose, utilizes an interface based on breath and balance to navigate through a virtual environment. Kirk Woolford, probably most well designed sensor surface is embedded with grids of electromagnetic field sensors and force sensitive resistor sensors which can detect touch, pressure and the amount of force applied to the surface. Together these sensors lie beneath a white velvet surface upon which is projected images of my own body. The surface yearns for contact and touch. Its rule base is complex and subtle, impossible co decode. Its effect is disturbing, erotic, sensual and subjective. The intention of the w o r k 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 particFigure h Image from Bodymaps:Artifacts of Touch, an interactive cornpu~r ipant and technology installation exhib#~ at Ars Electmnica September 1996, and Wes~rn Front,April 1996. that transgresses rules Here a~st Theda Schiphorst'sbody is projected up0na wh/tevelvet<overedtable. of ownership and
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