‘Contours’ is an immersive artwork where a series of tapestries responds to the presence of an interacting audience, by triggering soundscapes when they are touched.
Where: Centre for Creative Collaborations, 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
When: 6pm – 8pm, Thursday 29 May 2014 – FREE
The sound composition is generated in real time through a custom code software and it changes in relation to a constant feed of data relating to the weather of Vienna. The abstract geometric decoration that connects the tapestries’ individual sensors to form giant ones is inspired by Wiener Werkstätte designs from the MAK Collection.
This constantly modulated data-driven soundscape is composed in real time and is reminiscent of a medical research environment; it serves as an acoustic feedback loop that alludes to the relationship between science and the body. They include sound modulation algorithms that are mainly creating realtime granulation and pitch shifting of samples prerecorded from tools usually employed to measure human body such as CT and PET scans, EKG plus various oscillators.
The artwork was commissioned by the MAK Museum of Applied Arts and Contemporary Art in Vienna, as part of ‘Scientific Skin’, which features interactive experiments combining the human body and the latest scientific discoveries. The MAK invited the London based creative laboratory Bare Conductive to team up with Fabio L. Antinori and Alicja Pytlewska in order to develop a large-scale metaphor for the idea of breathing life into a textile skin.
A collaboration between Bare Conductive, Fabio Antinori and Alicja Pytlewska.
Screenprint, capacitive sensing, interactive tapestries, generative soundscape, custom code.
