Embedded Performance Systems

The field of miniature self organizing sensor networks has been accelerated by new research from Intel and Berkley Labs. It is theorized that in the near future thousands, if not millions of small wireless networked sensor nodes, such as bluetooth cellular telephones, will be permiating consumer products as well as being embedded into our everyday environments.

The possibilities afforded by these new technologies creates a vast reservaur of potential for art creation. Most notably art designed for physical locations outside of the traditional museum or gallery environment. Additionaly it opens up the possibility for temporal, performative works to be integrated into, ever pervasive, computer networking systems and allow for more interconnectedness between a time based work of art and the timeless world of cyberspace.

This project is a collaborative effort between DxArts and Computer Science and Engineering graduate students to develop custom hardware and software tools for the performing arts.

As a first step in this research and development project, I will be investigating two aspects critical to it's completion: The physical hardware components that are relevant to this application as well as the needs, desires and dreams of the creative communities that could create with this new pallete of technical tools. I'll be interviewing several professionals from the fields of Electroacoustic music, Dance, Theater, Electical Engineering, Computer Science and the Fine Arts.

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