soft(n): toward a somaesthetics of touch
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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This paper describes the artistic design concepts for the interactive wearable artworks tendrils and exhale exhibited at ACM Multimedia 2010 Interactive Art Program in Firenze Italy at the at the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi from 25 October through 6 November, 2010. These wearable art works are based in artistic exploration influenced by the somatic turn: an approach to designing for experience using body based practices that highlight the concept of somaesthetics as an approach to the design of expressive interaction. The interactive wearable art installations tendrils and exhale emphasize the experience of self-observation, poetics, materiality, and computational semantics that support sensory input such as touch and breath. In the context of interaction, somaesthetics offers a bridging strategy between embodied practices based in somatics, and the design for an aesthetics of interaction in wearable technology. These artworks illustrate the value of exploring artistic design strategies that employ a somaesthetic approach, and exemplify this approach in the design of a networked, wearable interactive art.