Overview

Synapse was a collaborative work with Joshua Cui Daquan and Rikas Shen Xiaoyan. Rikas was in charge of the sensors, while Joshua was responsible for taking video documentations. And I wrote the code for the visualisation in Processing, coordinating with Rikas' output datas.

Our concepts were very simple: what if we are sensitive and 'nervous' enough to hear every subtle things around us? We started with the daily habitual movements like blinking and sweating. We make those movements from time to time, usually without consciousness, however, they are still essential parts in our life. We decided to create an interactive system to 'enlarge' the subtle things which we have taken for granted. Moisture sensors were placed to feel the sweating, and players were made to wear the Neurosky brainwave sensor so that datas would be collected every time they blink.