Barney Haynes and Jennifer Parker created sonicSENSE in 2008 as an expandable and evolving site for art, culture, new technologies, digital media, collaboration, and participation. SonicSENSE uses the creative diversity of computational media and traditional visual art practices to cultivate space for sharing, questioning, and exploring interdisciplinary frameworks, methodologies, and experiences.
Artists, musicians, creative programmers, and scientists have been invited to write software and create new hardware components to leverage the unique qualities of this extensible platform. Engagement with the project is twofold. One is through the interactivity of live-viewer as a means to capture information and create feedback loops for robotics to respond to and react. This type of interactivity suggests a kind of co-dependency between the viewer and the piece, between the body and technology.
Participating universities, galleries, and institutions include the University of California Sant Cruz; California College of the Arts in Oakland/San Francisco, CA; College of Creative Studies, University of California Santa Barbara; Gray Area Arts Foundation, San Francisco; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA; The Lab in San Francisco; ZER01 San Jose; Galerie Califia in Horazdovice, South Bohemia; Školská 28 Galerie; and the Institute of Intermedia in Prague, Czech Republic.
sonicSENSE project website
