Gravity and Resistance project

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Specific of three sensors of this work.

---The sensing of gravity is achieve by an encoder that reads the shift of a participant's standing position. Their inclination and weight shift create the gravity force and rotation force in the dynamic field; again, in resistance to the counter power, they affect the horizontal line of light as well as the three dimensional sound environment.

---The sensing of sound monitors of the participants themselves by way of a sensor attached to the ear; the achieved sound feeds back to the space as a three dimensional audio environment.

--As for the sensing of position, two cameras detect the shifting position of a participant's head in terms other coordinate axis in three-dimensional space.

---The horizontal line of light (by RGB-LED) is installed on the top and bottom ends of a participant’s body. The space of "Gravity and Resistance" is made visible via the slit. This can be seen as an index of the body balance as well as a horizontal extension of the body itself.

The spatial expression of "Gravity and Resistance" is rendered consistently by the real time calculation of the dynamics that continues with no interruption (even while no participants are experiencing the space). The effects are totally unknown except for the beginning and ending. According to the participants who "happen to be there for three minutes in the virtual space where the dynamic movements continue." The on-going dynamic movements (sensing of sound, position, gravity and LED light) are composed of the counter powers (pulling) around gravity, involving the participants as the third terms. Gravity is not materialized without the reaction force.

Installation design

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