POLARIS is a large-scale art installation which researches our emotional response to music. Twenty participants in the audience volunteered to wear biosensors measuring their brainwaves, heart rate variability and galvanic skin response. These readings are interpreted using the Circumplex Model to indicate collective emotion, after which they are translated in real-time into light animations on the twelve meter diameter circular object. This process immerses the audience in their materialised collective emotional experience and allows them to co-create the piece together with the artists.

collaborators

Nick Verstand nickverstand.com
Nikki Hock nikkihock.net
Children of the Light children-of-the-light.com
Fatima Yamaha facebook.com/FatimaYamaha
Pandelis Diamantides pandelisdiamantides.com
Showsync showsync.info
TNO tno.nl
EagleScience eaglescience.nl
Red Light Radio redlightradio.net
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam stedelijk.nl

year

2016

medium

120 rgb strobes, smoke machines, biosensors, custom software

supported by

Creative Industries Fund NL
Amsterdam Dance Event
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
COMMIT
MUSE

exhibitions

Opening Ceremony Amsterdam Dance Event, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2016