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News
Cycles is an interactive installation that establishes an intimate relationship between the visitor's physical body and simulated organisms. This installation has been collaboratively realized with scientist-artist Tatsuo Unemi and is currently shown in the "WRO Alternative Now", Exhibition at Pokoyhof Passage, Wroclaw, Poland.
We are very happy to announce that Cycles has received the audience award at WRO2011.
2047 is an interactive choreographic installation that is based on a dance choreography of the same name. This installation has been collaboratively realized with choreogreographer Pablo Ventura and the ISS team and is currently shown in the "Swiss Artists in Labs" Exhibition at Kunstalle Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Summary
The project "Interactive Swarm Space" (ISS) explores the application of swarm simulations for the creation of interactive and immersive spaces. It aims to develop tools and strategies for establishing meaningful relationships between swarm behavior, interaction, perception, as well as musical and artistic expression. The project focuses on issues of multi-modal feedback and audio-visual spatialization which we deem central for a creative engagement with autonomous, self-organized and spatially distributed systems. This project is part of a research direction that explores the possibilities and challenges that artificial autonomous systems pose for artistic practice and performance. We believe that in order to exploit the artistic potential of such systems, novel forms of interactivity, creativity, and aesthetics need to be found. The project builds on research in the fields of New Media and Human Computer Interaction, such as the application of self-organized systems for the creation and synchronization of acoustic and visual feedback and expression, intuitive forms of interaction that attempt to bridge the gap between artificial systems and natural spaces, and differentiated forms of immersion which engage the audience on perceptual, emotional, social and intellectual levels. The project chooses swarm simulations as a flexible and evocative prototype of a self-organized, autonomous artificial system. Our research explores the artistic potential of swarm simulations by emphasizing issues of interaction, immersion and aesthetic expression.
The project is realized as a collaboration between the Intitute for Computer Music and Sound Technology of the Zurich University of the Arts (ICST) and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich (AILab). It is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF, Dore Section).
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