Senses Places: soma-tech mixed-reality participatory performance installation/environment

Abstract

We present the latest developments of the art-tech research project Senses Places, a somatic-technological (soma-tech) mixed-reality participatory performance installation/environment, engaging expanded modes of embodied physical-virtual interaction. This ongoing somatic-technological dance/performance collaborative trans-disciplinary approach gathers artists and developer researchers, working remotely and physically in analogical-digital intermedia interfaces and their expanded experience design and choreography. The sensorial expansion and integration sought through human-computer interaction links participants, avatars, images and physical-virtual environments. They constitute different organic-artificial sensorial-expressive channels of visual, audio, tactile, and somatic/kinesthetic shared tuning/engagement/experience. At the core of this long-term intervention lies the common urging desire for more encompassing and empathic embodied interactivity among physical and remote subjects and places. With a cross-cultural somatic and dance practices, Senses Places critically experiments with different informational, communicational and biomedical technologies available, wishing to contribute to understand the world's and humans becoming through what we have been conceiving as posthuman corporealities [1] within a posthuman condition and emerging somatic epistemology [2].