“Lumi-breath: flow of energy” by Seo and Gromala
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- Lumi-breath: flow of energy
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Lumibreath is an immersive installation that explores the quality of immersion through light, space and physiological data of participants. In our daily life, we are surrounded by many forms of light. However, we aren’t usually cognizant of it. Although, according to Helmholtz, we have 100,000 more physiological sensors within our bodies (interoception) than in our traditional senses that focus on the outside world (exteroception), we usually are not aware of our interceptors.[1] Interoception, such as our internal organs’ movement, however, can often be brought into conscious awareness. We created an alternative immersive environment that focuses on sensual and internal bodily interaction with audiovisual and tangible aspects — an interplay of interoception and exteroception. Yuasa Yasuo, a Japanese philosopher argues our internal organs affect our consciousness and emotion although we don’t realize it.[2] Lumibreath embodies and brings into conscious awareness this internal experience, allowing for participants to be attached to the light structure through a biofeedback sensor. In addition, we seek to create a very playful interface between external light installation and internal bodily states.
References:
1. Helmholtz, H. von: Physiological optics: vol 3: The perceptions of vision. Southall, J.P.C. (trans. and ed.). 1879.
2. Yuasa, Y., The body, self-cultivation, and ki-energy (S. Nagatomo & M. S. Hull, Trans.). Albany: State University of New York Press. 1993.
3. Schwartz, M. S., Biofeedback : a practitioner’s guide (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Press. 1995.
