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Developing an "Antigenous" Art Installation Based on a Touchless Endosystem Interface

Paulo C. Teles, and Aidan Boyle

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Antigenous is an immersive interactive installation model where the full-body gestures of the audience-participant, generate, interact with and modify the sonic expressions and the post-image impressions emanating from the interaction processes itself. The work is a metaphoric representation of the antigenous reaction caused by a foreign body invading an organism - the installation is composed of a touchless interface based on sensorial receptor technology. The receptors act as a reagent to the intruders' presence and actions, and the system's antibodies, comprised of melodic and verbal sonoric elements create a dialogue that transit between chaotic and harmonious synchronization, evoking sonoric elements based on a sensorial pre-human, human and post-human repertoire. As an endo-instrument which is "played" without any physical contact, a systemic dialogue is created between contemporary electronic music, distorted environmental sounds and people's active gestures, momentarily catapulting the interactors into the simultaneous roles of composer, musician and performer.

Citation

Paulo C. Teles, and Aidan Boyle. 2008. Developing an "Antigenous" Art Installation Based on a Touchless Endosystem Interface. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179637 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2008_Teles,
author = {Teles, Paulo C. and Boyle, Aidan},
title = {Developing an "Antigenous" Art Installation Based on a Touchless Endosystem Interface},
pages = {269--272},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2008},
address = {Genoa, Italy},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179637},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2008/nime2008_269.pdf},
keywords = {nime08},
abstract = {Antigenous is an immersive interactive installation model where the full-body gestures of the audience-participant, generate, interact with and modify the sonic expressions and the post-image impressions emanating from the interaction processes itself. The work is a metaphoric representation of the antigenous reaction caused by a foreign body invading an organism - the installation is composed of a touchless interface based on sensorial receptor technology. The receptors act as a reagent to the intruders' presence and actions, and the system's antibodies, comprised of melodic and verbal sonoric elements create a dialogue that transit between chaotic and harmonious synchronization, evoking sonoric elements based on a sensorial pre-human, human and post-human repertoire. As an endo-instrument which is "played" without any physical contact, a systemic dialogue is created between contemporary electronic music, distorted environmental sounds and people's active gestures, momentarily catapulting the interactors into the simultaneous roles of composer, musician and performer.}
}