LEIKHEN

Claudia Robles-Angel

LEIKHEN , 2018

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Interactive immersive installation -Panoramic video, surround sound, touch sensors, tactile transducers, TENS and brainwaves.

Created for and during an artist in residence at the Immersive Lab (IL). The IL is a space developed Daniel Bisig and Jan C. Schacher at the ICST Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology, Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK)

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Description

Inspired by the composite plant of lichen (from Greek: leikhen), which is the result of a hybrid partnership between a fungus and an alga. The installation is therefore a reflection upon the interaction and mutualistic relationship between two organisms, and how this union impacts on their behaviours inside a created audiovisual immersive space.

The installation consists basically of two types of participants: the central figure or host, sitting in the middle of the panoramic video space, whose brainwaves’ values are collected via a BCI interface in order to influence the sonic environment; the second type of participant is represented by the guest(s), visitors who, by touching the screens, influence the host’s emotional states through to the tactile transducers that are attached to the chair where the host is seated and consequently, also the audiovisual environment.

Keywords

aesthetics
- acoustic
- affective
- immersive
- interactive
- real-time
genres
- installations
  - interactive installations
- sound art
  - sound installations
subjects
- Art and Science
  - neuroscience
- Arts and Visual Culture
  - projections
- Body and Psychology
  - affect
  - bodies (animal components)
  - breathing
  - emotion
  - feelings
  - perception
  - self awareness
- Nature and Environment
  - atmosphere
  - environment
  - Nature
- Technology and Innovation
  - intelligent environment
technology
- hardware
  - cameras
  - touch screens
  - video (analog)
- interfaces
  - body sensors
    - brainwave sensors /brain-computer-interfaces
  - interactive media
    - tangible user interfaces (TUI)
- software
  - software interfaces
  - video (digital)

Technology & Material

Display

panoramic video made by four video screens arranged in a cylindrical form with a diameter of approximately 4 meters and a 10.3 meters long screen with a height of 1.5 meters.

Hardware

four infrared cameras behind the screens operated by a camera-based system (OpenCV in OpenFrameworks). System developed by Daniel Bisig and Jan C. Schacher at the ICST Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology, Zurich Universi-ty of the Arts (ZhdK)

Interface

- BCI (Brain Computer Interface)

- TENS (Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation)

- Touch Sensors. The touch screen sensors at the IL consist of a tracking system composed by four infrared cameras behind the screens operated by a camera-based system (OpenCV in OpenFrameworks), which surveys the whole panoramic screen (Schacher & Bisig, 2017, p. 247).

Software

MAX

Sound

16 audio channels and 2 subwoofers

Exhibitions & Events

ISEA 2019: Lux Aeterna

2019

Immersive Lab - LEIKHEN

2018

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