sensors, muscles, circles
Collaborator：Yuuki Takada ayafuji, Keita Sumiya, Hanna Saito, Shin Hanagata, Seitaro Kokubo
Our work is based on the idea that the origin of any organism emerges because meaningless noises are piled and entangled complexly. To express this idea through our work, we designed the following process.
1. Two participants face each other across a clear glass panel. Each holds a pen and draws lines on the glass.
2. Wobbles while the one’s drawing are converted to values of a tilt sensor in the tip of the pen. And, it puts out as electronic muscle stimuli to the other.
3. This stimuli make the other’s muscle contract, and generate new wobbles of the other that will be converted to new sensor values.
4. This feedback loop as above causes that the movements of the arms leave participants’ wills gradually and start to draw complex lines on the glass, autonomously.
This work asks the audience to think “what a boundary between life and non-life is” by demonstrating how complex movements can emerge from the interaction among simple ”sensors (wobbles by drawing),” ”motors (muscle),” and the human body (media).
Collaborator：Yuuki Takada ayafuji, Keita Sumiya, Hanna Saito, Shin Hanagata, Seitaro Kokubo
Communication is an interaction system in which sender and receiver exchange information. In communication, the boundary between self and others is seemingly self-evident, but in reality, the boundary is considered to be continuously redefined through interaction. In this work, as a device for experiencing the indefiniteness of boundaries, we created the system ≪S/O≫ (≪O/S≫), which enables two participants to send and receive gestures remotely by manipulating each other’s bodies using myoelectric stimulation.