TransSynaesthesia (upgrade June 2015)
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Synaesthetic Skin (upgrade 05.19.2015)
Synaesthetic Skin is the first part of the project that I had planned at first; TransSynesthesia was my idea to connect human senses with digital things and others living beings like bacteria, but by the time, to complete all the parts is too complicate for me, for this I decided to develop now a project that can be the first part of the original idea, and the platform to develop it.
The idea now is to send a synaesthetic input to an object that can react.
The input is human voice, telling letters of the alphabet, names and numbers;
The elaboration is to map this voice with a color and a movement, in according to the synaesthesia of the user (each person can map his own synesthesia)
The output is a color (through light) and a movement, in an object.
The “object” is a skin, made of small cells that can be opened like petals of flowers, unfolding a pattern, and each one with a small led.
Here some sketch … just to give an idea … but I´m working on the final pattern and on the system
– the skin made of “cells”
– the cells can be opened or closed, and each of them have a light
– the skin changes color in according with the voice, and the “petals” can be opened or closed
TransSynesthesia (first and whole idea)
My idea is to develop a project through whose is possible establish a communication between human senses, living beings, atoms and bits.
The concept comes from a few thoughts about the relationship between the atomic and taxonomic processes of the “human doing”, and about how are the things that we make and how we make them.
With this experiment, I want to try to create something multidimensional, able to change itself through communication, between the human senses, the digital world, matter and the dynamism of others living beings.
For now, I don’t know clearly how to realize this project and how it will work, because for me it’s something new, but on this first step I will try to tell how I imagine it could be; the Fab Academy seems to me an excellent opportunity to develop my idea, although I’m sure that during the course, many things will be different from how I can imagine them now.
I am thinking about a machine that, at first gets information from a human being, after maps and processes them, and then is able to send those information to any others living beings, which will react in according to these data, changing themselves and, potentially, doing things.
In order to realize my project I thought to using the human synesthesia, a machine that I will design and fabricate, and “other living organisms” capable to change or grow very fast, as bacteria or micro organisms.
The brains of synesthetic people has many connections through which the senses are closely related to each other, so, in different way for each person, they can “see” the colors of numbers, letters, words and sounds, they can “listen” the taste of colors or “see” their forms … things that a no synesthetic person isn’t able to feel; synesthesia, therefore, can be considered as a dimension that exist, but only for certain people, and in any case is different for each of them.
In this case I thought the synesthetic input has to be very simple, such as a sound which can be the name of a letter or a number, pronounced by the person.
The machine must be capable to receive inputs and map them, in according of the synesthesia of the person (for example the 3 is red, 6 is blue) putting in this way human senses and bits in communication; the machine also must be able to send data to the other living beings, so that they react to receive them (for example taking the color of the number pronounced), establishing a communication between bits and the others living beings.
I imagine that in the end, these “other beings” can take on the color of the “3” or of the “A” and possibly organize themselves according to different patterns linked with such data by changing shape, and why not (perhaps I am a dreamer) also making things.
Putting in communication together bits and atoms (a machine) with living beings, even if for me is totally new, is something that already exists at different levels; doing that this is linked to some immaterial and changeable entity, as the feelings produced by the experience synesthetic human, gives to the project a quantic connotation, because the “thing” in question, although it arises from the communication between different entities and could work permanently, totally changes with changing the person who is invited to give the inputs.
TransSynesthesia
The name TransSynesthesia wants mean going beyond the personal human synesthesia, reaching other living beings and the digital world, but comes also from “transformation” and “transmission”.
Currently I haven’t found examples of projects similar to what I imagine, maybe because I like to think that, in this case, the machine and its product are the same thing, and that this “thing” is made up of sensations, bits and atoms and life. Anyway, there are references that, taken separately, can help me to define the steps of the work that I’ll try to develop; my research is just beginning, so the sources that I have for now are just the essential bases.
Synesthesia
http://cbc.ucsd.edu/index.html
http://cbc.ucsd.edu/interviews.html
http://www.amazon.com/Brief-Tour-Human-Consciousness-Impostor/dp/0131872788/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
How to make a machine
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/media-arts-and-sciences/mas-863-how-to-make-almost-anything-fall-2002/
Architecture and living beings
http://geneticarchitectures.weebly.com/research_group.html
http://boiteaoutils.blogspot.mx/2009/09/swarm-interview-of-francois-roche.html
Communication and alphabets
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=40859
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-SAyhDVrUHD5uvvDE
http://www.amazon.com/Cultura-Pensamiento-Escritura-Spanish-Edition/dp/8474325242
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