The physical spaces are evoluting to digital spaces that need our presence to live. The same happens at LIVING ROOM: living room lives from an human presence. Without the spectator, this installation is nothing more than a dead space.
LIVING ROOM reads body signs through two sensors: a capacitance sensor and an oxymeter.
The role of the capacitance sensor is to detect the electric energy around the human body and, trough proximity, allows the control a video projection that allows the user to drill down a tunnel reflecting the cycle of life, in a continuous loop. At this point he could assume that he was in control of the life cycle.
On the other hand, the oxymeter reads the cardiac signs and sends it to the sonorous component of the installation. In this stage, the spectator hears his uncontrollable inner voice: his heart beating.
A third element is created by a performer or a generative sound system, that uses the cardiac signs to distort, gradually, the cardiac heart beating through sound inputs.
Around this concept it becomes hard to say who is in control: Is it the room or the spectator?
