Interactive devices, performances, and collaborations by Joaku De Sotavento — new media art at the frontier between embodied experience and machine signal.
Body / Device
Five points of contact
Select a point of contact to see how a device takes over its signal. Every entry opens its full documentation.
In "Joakinator: Oniric Body," the artist explores the integration of the dream world into the performer's body, transforming it into a meeting point between consciousness and the body. Muscle sensors, pressure sensors and accelerometers power an A.I. system that translates…
The Joakinator is an artistic project that takes the problem of how technology touches the creative process over the body of the artist. Through the creation of the performance plus the development of the body interface for stage interaction we…
A workshop for the collective creation and production of an interactive installation to build a symbiotic relationship between the Madrid community and the "Máquina Orgánica" exhibition at Teatros del Canal (Canal Connect 2023).
An intensive dance-and-interactive-technologies workshop: body movement is transformed into visual images and soundscapes using innovations from the i_mBODY Lab at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
PhD research on the cybernetic interface and the body in art — a reflection on art, technology and the body that took more than five years to reach its conclusion, and that materialised in the Joakinator project.
