Projects
Spring Simulator
Spring Simulator
Can immersive technologies provide the feelings of joy and mental health benefits of Spring indoors?
Can an immersive experience give you the energy and impetus to go out and experience and care for the real thing? Does a geographically local rather than abstract focus help with that aspect?
I use sensors to collect data about birds and animals, and create audio and visual representations of those and other data. I currently make two dimensional representations using colour and music which run in a web browser. The idea of these is to give people intuitions - rather than detailed information - about changes in the data over time. I use both colour and music to represent meaning and to suit different peoples' ways of experiencing the world.
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£5,000
Aims of the project
In this project I want to progress from an experience that people find interesting and entertaining to one that still intrigues but also evokes feelings and inspires action in the real world.
I want to explore whether immersive representations can evoke feelings both of calm and care for the environment: calm because activism comes from a feeling of clarity and empowerment, and care because preserving and maintaining nature flows from understanding it, finding it wonderful, and feeling that it is yours to care for.
Meet the artist
Libby Miller
Lead Artist
she/her
Libby is a creative technologist with 15 years’ experience in collaborative design of physical and digital objects, and two of wildlife monitoring and measurement.
Her practice uses ethnographic research and collaborative design techniques to create weird, funny, physical and digital objects that make ideas vivid, and which invite exploration and response. She’s recently been exploring how to make boring (accounts) data interesting and exciting. I want to bring these collaborative, physical and data-orientated strands together to address one of the greatest challenges we have, climate change, and make people feel like they can, want to, and are excited by doing something about it.
