OP_ERA: Sonic Dimension

OP_ERA is an immersive and interactive interface designed for multisensorial experimentation of space concepts. Conceived as a virtual reality environment, this project focuses on research and development of scientific and artistic models of space, human-machine interfaces specially designed for environments where a human agent and artificial engine are symbiotically interconnected, and alternative ways of spatial perception and cognition. OP_ERA brings up an old problem of human-machine interfaces. How and through what kind of interfaces one system may best interact with another? Or throug what kind of interfaces may we enter a data world without being disturbed ba unnatural (weird) devices? Inspired by such questions the project is beeing developed since 1999. OP_ERA stands for a world, shaped as a set of interconnected logical dimensions. The dimensions were conceived to generate spatial cognition through multisensoral experimentation of space models that evolve in relation to human body.

OP_ERA: Sonic Dimension is an immersive virtual reality installation designed as a music box. Entering into the enclosure, the open cube is filled with hundreds of visually indentical violin-like strings. Using Pythagorean principles, the installation lets you embody one of physic´s most complex phenomena.

(D. Kutschat)