BIOSCOPE A Project by Konic Thtr/Koniclab
Direction:
Rosa Sánchez and Alain Baumann, artists and researchers responsible of Konic Thtr/Koniclab, Association for contemporary creation and new technologies.
With the collaboration of :
- Eugenio Tisselli, associate researcher Sony Computer Science Lab
- Luís Rico, researcher and director of the project e-biolab.
CONCEPT:
BIOSCOPE is an interactive artistic project of transdisciplinary creation conceived as a network-interface, based on an experience of use and application of mobile and locative technology for the information and formation of the users in environmental sensitization.
BIOSCOPE consists of an interactive artistic intervention, which puts into communication a natural or urban environment with a virtual environment through the use of locative media. Environmental measurements made with sensors are sent to the internet via mobile telephones connected to GPS.
The core idea of Bioscope is the study of the relations of interactions that we establish with our immediate physical environment.
DESCRIPTION:
BIOSCOPE starts from the installation of a sensor network in a determined physical space. This sensor network allows the users to interact with this environment along an itinerary, by capturing, classifying and sending the sensor data through the use of mobile telephones. Additional measurements are made directly by the mobile device. This data is sent to a digital ecosystem that will interpret and represent it.
INTERVENTION AND DISSEMINATION FORMATS
We defined the following lines of research in the theoretical, methodological and application fields:
INTERNET
The data visualization takes place on the internet, and therefore the information gathered locally is made accessible to the network. This should provide a space for sharing local environmental information to a wider audience.
EXHIBITION
An artistic intervention taking the shape of an installation or stage piece that puts into communication an urban environment with an exhibition space (theatre, museum, art gallery, arts centre, etc...).
EDUCATIONAL MODULE: BIOSCOPE lb.
BIOSCOPElb is the pedagogical and research space for the Project BIOSCOPE. Two workshops are under development: one will be aimed at the visual arts, and the second one will focus on live arts. Both will focus on the thematic and interests in the environment, and will explore the relation between body and environment.
USABILITY AND IMPACT
BIOSCOPE will develop two levels of usability, related with:
1. ARTISTIC APLICATIONS
BIOSCOPE is providing the ground for the following areas:
- -the development of interactive installations making use of locative media
- -the research process in matter of interactive communication languages in staged proposals and in relation with concepts of mobility, interaction with the audience and augmented stage.
2. PEDAGOGIC APLICATIONS The contributions of BIOSCOPE to the sensitization in matter o environment are based on:
- -the development of educational modules
- -the development of activities of formation and research in the field of ASTS (Art, Science, Technology and Society)
With the support of:
ICIC/Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals, Generalitat de Catalunya
EADC/Entitat Autònoma de Difusió Cultural del Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Producción: Konic Thtr
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