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* * A b o u t

* * C o n t e x t

* * I n t e r f a c e

* * S o u n d s c a p e

* * E x h i b i t i o n

* * T e a m
 

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
 
 
 
C o n t e x t :

The artwork focuses on the development of a textile system that enables people to experience an immersive physical environment by using analogies of the human skin and nervous system. More specifically, the somatosensory system (outer skin, nervous system, brain) is being examined in the context of a responsive artwork, and is translated into a design system (haptic qualities, textile structure, programming).
Strings' textile membrane simulates a ‘living’ spatial organism that enables individuals to experience ways in which their expressive body is affected (literally and metaphorically touched) by the space that surrounds it and vice versa. Its tactile and responsive nature encourages individuals to creatively engage with the piece through their senses and bodily responses, at the same time enhancing their understanding of their affective engagement with their surroundings. The bidirectionality of responses between one's body & the textile membrane is inherent in the structure of the textile itself, as it not only presents a range of textural qualities to evoke bodily responses but is also able of capturing & feeding them back to its ‘organism’.