SubThemes::Body,Embody+Perform
Our own bodies form lenses of experience, perception, cognition and disruption. How can we exploit the body itself in renegotiating physical habit, cultural experience and embodied texts in the context of embodied innovation, and disruptive technology through the lens of embodiment? What are the key drivers of innovation as it is situated within and upon the body and what are the consequences – social, political, biological, creative, performative, in cyborgs and in fashion? How can we see movement as a driver of knowledge and innovation? What is physical movement now?
SubThemes::Social Spaces: Design,Arcitecture+Cities
Our social spaces are the backdrops of everyday experience in contemporary design, urban architectures and cityscapes. We are knit together within the complex framework of our cities, through technological and social networks, patterns of habit and use and by our interactions with objects and people both near to us and half a globe away. Our lives are more entwined than ever, but the networks that hold us together can become fragile. When networks govern both global trade and our relationships with our thermostats, where is the tension between innovation and disruption?
daviesBezzant
ISEA2015
http://daviesbezzant.wix.com/collaborate2014
PROPOSAL: ARTWORK
Thematic Statement:
daviesBezzant is an artist collaborative that seeks to mobilize the poetical potential of DIY sensor technologies integrated with textile thinking to investigate/explore the body's occupation/actuation of space and place. This is the first collaborative endeavor Angela Davies and Janet Bezzant have taken together, each having worked as solo practitioner or as other collaboratives in past works. Each has a track record as a practicing artist/educator, each having realized large-scale installation/performance productions.
Our Proposal for the 'Artworks' submission ISEA2015Vancouver is currently in the early stages of exploration, being at a speculative stage of development. However, our ultimate aim is to present an interactive public art intervention from the development of this new partnership and mutual research path. Our shared interests in sensor technology, textile sensibilities are inherent drivers of this exploration - framed by critical concerns for the place making relationship the body has to space and the disruption of perception attendant upon its technological mediation.
Project Description:
Our proposal is both inspired by and bridges the two sub-thematics of Body,Embody+Perform and Social Spaces: Design,Arcitecture+Cities. Initial intentions are to 'actuate' a haptic, sensory space, to orchestrate a performative emergence through material manipulation and collective participation.
We envision working within a public location, to observe public pattern of use. We want to integrate/intervene a viewing space within this event to work with the disruption of outside and inside: visual (dis)orientation of the Camera Obscura projection; thus manipulating and layering a perspective of place and time.
Data in various forms will be collected and observed for ways of intervening, disrupting/enhancing that space in an interactive feedback loop. For example, observing living structures could be used as stimuli for interactive engagement, by constructing electroluminescent thread-work to illuminate fragile structures of growth, essentially lacing light networks.
One intervention will divert and affect a pattern, thus feeding back into further intervening forms. The outcome will form an emergent architectural structure.
Process:
Locating site/s. [OUTSIDE] Looking for a site that provides certain characteristics and potentials to engage a public audience in the building and interaction of fabricated form finding using conductive/electro-luminesent thread. Site/participants to provide the logic for generative form finding; for example, botanical environment, patterns of growth, light patterns, frequencies, pathways.
Site Set up: 3 days - 10th-13th August 2015
Built space [INSIDE] construction of interior space within the outside location, becomes the camera and screen within which the constructed space is projected and viewed. Viewer experience inside would be of an ever changing and moving image.
Duration of install: 4 days 14th-18th August 2015
Budget
Funding to be applied for – Arts Council England
Flights £900.00 x 2 £1800
Accommodation duration of install 8 nights x £1600
Subsistence – duration of install - 8x£50 £400.00
Miscellaneous site travel - £200
Transport & Accommodation total - £4000 ($6000)
Materials
(ideally sourced and shipped locally)
Conductive threads: 10 spools $250
LEDs - $25:00
And/or
ElWire: 330ft spools $313 (http://www.elwirepros.com) x 10 $3130
Fixings/connectors/inverters–$200
power supplies - $200 (http://elwirecraft.co.uk/el-products/12v-drivers/)
Micro fasteners – $75:00
Fabric $200
wood supplies (building materials for the construction of an enclosed wooden frame space with walls) - $500:00
Misc toolkit - $100
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Material total: $4,680
Equipment
Projection: HD Projector(s): To hire $200
Video [live feed] camera - GoPro $500
Lights $200/ hire
* we will be able to work on our own laptops
* we may want to explore the remote feeding of live stream video to other spaces/screens
Equipment total - $900
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All amounts approximate $8763
Logstics
Site specifics and scale
Camera Obscura - approx 3m square cube
Interactive thread-work - approx 5 x 3 m
Technical support for install and support with technology
**We would be interested in collaborating with a group of students to realize this project.
This is an image from workshop I participated in with AASchool at Hooke Park led by Jeroen van Ameijde . It was a team effort (I was on the other team) - but this process and thinking is in principle is what I would be interested in developing
This was my workshop
Lace Light (2013) Film of layered silk installation with LEDs, Arduino micro-processing
Eglwyseg (2013) Interactive Silk Lace Installation
Arduino micro-processing, PIR motion sensor and motors to ignite movement on interaction.