ensemble
Ensemble 2006-2007
is an interactive suite of jewellery for up to ten people in a gallery environment. It explores the issue of user control of personal information in social interactions, and highlights ways in which self-determination may take place through the medium of sound. A short recorded narrative about the intimate experience of owning and wearing jewellery is hidden in a soundscape until the jewellery in the installation is played with in a particular way by visitors.
Bringing contemporary craft to the project as a methodology means treating the technology as an expressive design material just like the plastics and metals more usually found at the jeweller’s workbench, allowing me to make use of the constraints and opportunities presented by the Speckled Computing nodes enabling the interaction. A handling exhibition of experimental work with a wide range of forms and materials informed the placement of the sensors in the final pieces.
The public installation took place in March 2007 at the Scottish Book Trust in Edinburgh, with a lite version shown in July 2007 at the New Craft Future Voices conference in Dundee.
hear the soundscape
hear the narrative (large file size):
Hiromi Morita
The project was made possible by an AHRC Arts and Science Fellowship at Edinburgh Napier University, and was realised in collaboration with the Research Consortium for Speckled Computing and Vangelis Lympouridis, interaction and sound design.
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lime shell neckpiece
photo: Mike Byrne, Faction Photography
