Ohm Dome.
A geodesic dome that responds to the heart rates and breathing of the people inside it.
A biometric-responsive LED installation in public space.
Visitors enter a geodesic dome. Sensors read their pulse and breath. The dome's LED skin shifts color, brightness, and rhythm in response to the bodies inside it. The longer a group stays, the more the dome's light becomes a portrait of that group.
The piece is meant for public space. Not a gallery. The intended viewer is the passerby who wandered in without a reason and left changed.
The audience is the artwork.
A gallery installation reads its visitors as a sequence: one ticket holder after another. The piece adapts to each, but the visitors don't shape the piece for the next. Public installation breaks that. Strangers who don't know each other generate a single shared output. The shape of the dome's response is downstream of who happens to be standing in it together.
That is the point. Public space is the substrate the piece is about.
In development. Seeking grant support and venue partnership.
Open to grants, sponsorship, and commission. Inquire through >open_transmission_.
The Ohm Dome is being developed with applications to StreetARToronto and the Toronto Arts Council Animating Toronto Parks program. Private sponsorship and venue partnerships are also welcome.
The dome reads pulse and breath. Nothing is recorded.
Sensors read live biometric signals from visitors. The signals drive the lighting in real time. No data is stored. No video or audio is captured. When the visitor walks away, the signal is gone.
The piece is pseudonymous by design. The bodies in the dome are not identified, recognized, or remembered.