SKIN is an interactive installation, in which visitors have the opportunity to use a GSR (Galvanic Skin Response) interface, which measures their skin's moisture. The variations of these values are an indication of psychological or physiological arousal, such as for example appearance of stress or relaxation. The values received from the GSR are further transmitted to a computer in order to transform the sound and the images of the interactive space. Visitors are invited to create an audiovisual environment from their own emotional and physiological parameters.
Claudia Robles-Angel is an audiovisual and new media artist born in Bogotá-Colombia, currently living in Cologne-Germany and active worldwide. Her work and research cover different aspects of visual and sound art, extending from audiovisual fixed-media compositions to performances that interact with biomedical signals via the usage of interfaces such as, for example, the EEG (electroencephalogram, measuring brain wave activity). Her work is constantly featured in not only media and sound-based festivals/conferences but also in group and solo exhibitions around the globe, for example the Bauhaus Archiv Museum in Berlin (2003), the ZKM Karlsruhe (2005), the ICMC 2007 in Copenhagen, ICMC 2009 in Montréal and 2016 in Utrecht, the SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 in Yokohama, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2010 and 2013–2017, the Re-New Festival 2011 in Copenhagen and the NIME 2011 in Oslo, at the Salon Suisse – 55th Venice Biennale 2013, ON Neue Musik Cologne (2013/2014), at the CMMR Symposium on Computer Music Multidiscipli-nary Research in Plymouth 2015 and Marseille 2013, at the Museum for Contemporary Art Bogotá (2008/2015), IK Foundation in Flushing, SKOP in Frankfurt (2016), the Digitale Düsseldorf (2016), MADATAC 07 Madrid (2016), at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Cen-ter New York City (2014/2017), and more recently at ISEA 2017 in Manizales.
Photo: Damjan Švarc