Conscious Space, Sonia Cillari, NL
One of the key ways in which humans communicate is through how we regulate the distance between ourselves and our surroundings. This distance allows us to communicate.
Conscious Space 01 is a responsive environment which focuses on the conscious and unconscious interrelations between two bodies. The piece focuses on interaction, movement and the presence of another, while simultaneously attempting to capture and map our emotional responses. This is achieved through the body of the ‘performer’ acting as an antenna, while the ‘participants’ presence, proximity and touch are ‘read’ by the sensors embedded within the pieces structure.
Credits
Sonia CillariAbout the Creator
Italian media artist and architect, lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work involves the creation of sensorial and perceptual mechanisms in immersive and augmented environments. Her artistic investigation examines how patterns of consciousness, perception and identity emerge in such settings.
Over the last years she has been specifically interested in a field of research concerning the ‘Body as Interface’.
She was artist in residence at V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2004), Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2004-2005), STEIM: Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music and Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Amsterdam 2006).
Her interactive installations, are at the intersection of architecture and performance art and have been exhibited and presented internationally. She received the Excellence Prize at Japan Media Arts Festival (Tokyo, Japan 2007) and the Honorable Mentions at Prix Ars Electronica: Interactive Art (Linz, Austria 2007) and VIDA 9.0: Art & Artificial Life International Competition (Madrid, Spain 2006).
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