Sensate Skeptic
Installation at PMA | Collaboration with Ryan Henirksen
Sensate Skeptic emerged through a study of kinematic systems and an interest in choreographing an object beyond its traditionally static state. By programming the behavior of the object, we allow it to become reactive and responsive to its environment while also engraining it with the sensate characteristics of human emotional response.
The object was programmed using an Arduino Uno and through the utilization of reactive sensors was able to actively respond to changing stimuli. Utilizing ultrasonic motion sensors and a vibration motor, the object would begin to shake nervously when detecting motion in its proximity. Its hairs, constructed from fiber optics, would flash at varying intensities to suggest the object’s “mood”.
