Touching Wires (2024)
Touching Wires (2024)1
found textiles, recycled wooden palettes, electronics
Our interactions with the computing world have long been characterised by rigid materials — minerals and rocks encased within metal and geologics. Touching Wires invites softness into our technological relationships, drawing attention to the humanity that shapes human-computer interactions.
Touching Wires was featured in a solo exhibition of the same name at the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in the 4A LAB. This exhibition centred around an installation work by ACT-based artist Sandy Ma, created during her journey to articulate what collaboration and co-creation means when artificial intelligence is involved.
Sandy Ma and Isabelle Laxamana entered a 10-minute trialogue with IMPSYpi2 on 10 October, 2024.
Touching Wires is a 4A LAB Emerging Artist initiative, supported by the City of Sydney Innovations and Ideas grant; a site-specific activation of the 4A LAB, which prioritises research and artworks that are grounded in experimentation, technology and change.
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Touching Wires was an Honours research project articulating the role of tactility in Human-AI interaction with the ANU Sound, Music, and Creative Computing Lab. ↩
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IMPSYpi is a Raspberry Pi-based mixed-density recurrent neural network for musical performance, created by Charles Martin. ↩