Interactive Video Installation of Phenomenological Landscape Using a Custom Sensitive Fabric Map as Human Interface

Abstract

This paper illustrates the process of a geo-spatial interactive artwork that involves the invention of a fabric sensor for a map to function as an input device. A squeezing motion on the sensitive fabric map results in a corresponding downscale of a video and audio space realized in an art installation. The invention of the fabric sensor, which measures the degree of squeeze of the grasped fabric, uses a combination of woven conductive threads and resistors. The fabric map sensor showed sufficient performance in realizing the initial concept into a form of interactive video artwork: “How would we perceive the world if God wrinkled the earth?” The artwork is discussed in terms of Phenomenological Landscape.