Where
The Governor's Library (Room 105)Old Government House
Cost
FreeIn the future, what forms of symbiosis will humanity develop with technology?
Dilate is an interactive wearable that responds to human data: dilating, pulsating and expanding while on a human body. As our connection to devices increases, both intellectually and bodily, the effects of this relationship are still unforeseeable. As technology and research into organic materials continue to develop our tools, static objects will become more like sentient lifeforms; drawing a split worldview between machine and organism, assembly and growth.
Dilate explores this idea through a wearable device that feeds off human data; dilating, pulsating and expanding from this information through inflatable actuators on the wearable's surface. It aims to provide audiences with the opportunity to experience activating this breathing wearable firsthand, allowing audiences to explore their emotional response to this relationship.
Bookings
Drop-in, no bookings required
Suitability
Duration
Approximately 10 minutes
Acknowledgements
QUT Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy
Peter Lloyd, Ruth Hawkins, Steven O'Hanlon Rose, Joash Teo, Jessica Greentree, Reina Takeuchi, and Daniel Kit Wei Tan
