The Cluster 觸簇

Art Installation design

2018

If an object can sense human behavior, what reaction will it give to you? If an inanimate being exists as a humanoid, what kind of existence would it be? 如果物件能夠感知人的行為，它會給你什麼樣的回應？如果一個非生命作為一個類生命的存在，它會是個怎麼樣的存在？

The device uses the conductive cloth developed by Far Eastern New Century to study the possibilites of this material and apply it to the sensations of touch and pressure of objects.

Many individuals from a group whereas each of them is an independent existence, but mutually influencinge each other in the group. The device receives human touch and give reaction to explore the interaction from human to objects, and thus objects to environment. Each individual reacts to the intervention while maintaining its balance within the system.

此裝置使用遠東新世紀所開發的導電布，研究此材料的可能性，將導電布應用於物件對於觸壓的感測。此裝置之個體(布)的造型，透過研究布於平面分割並依有規則的圖樣結合形成結構之可能性，找出能夠因受力而變形之結構型態，來作為此裝置個體(布)所展現的樣貌，並透過數位製造工具雷射切割將其完成。

多個個體組成群體，個體與個體為獨立的存在，但在群體中又彼此相互影響；這個裝置接收人們的觸壓並給予回應，探討人與物件、物件與環境的互動模式；每個個體既對介入回饋，同時又保持群體系統內的平衡。

Dimensions | Dimensions Variable, a unit 40 × 40 × 45 cm
Material | cloths, conductive cloths, stepper motor, LED, string, acrylic sheet, Arduino

Exhibition

2023 【 Don’t BeMO 與你心電感應】－東海大學美術研究所11th實習策展，Tunghai University Art Center 東海大學藝術中心（人文大樓1F）
2018 13th Digital Art Festival Taipei 台北數位藝術節「超機體」, Songshan Cultural & Creative Park, Taipei 台北松菸
2018 Taipei Maker Faire, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei 台北華山
2018 8th Annual YZU Art & Design depart. graduation exhibition 元智大學藝術與設計學系畢業展「沌沌」, Songshan Cultural & Creative Park, Taipei 台北松菸

Award

13th K.T. Creativity Award 李國鼎科技藝術獎互動科技藝術組, 技術創新獎
14th Asakura Naomi Memorial Award 朝倉直巳教授紀念創作獎, 初審入圍
2018 元智大學創客競賽藝術設計組, 佳作

Operation

Touch the edge areas of the main object (cloths) to start the interaction.

If the outside world doesn’t intervene (do not touch/press the sensing areas of the cloths), each group would act as a cycle in its own set of systems. However, when the system is involved (the edge of cloths is touched/pressed), the main object which have no action will start acting.