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Making sense of sensors

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posted on 2023-06-09, 06:56 authored by Kate O'RiordanKate O'Riordan, Jennifer Parker, David Harrison, Emile DevereauxEmile Devereaux
The paper explores the different projects resulting from a practical workshop on making and hacking biosensors. The workshop was part of the Sussex-UCSC Digital Media partnership initiative, funded though the University of Sussex (and the EPSRC). The projects and the workshop enable a series of reflections about biosensors and their commercially offered promises and what they might offer to other constituents in digital arts theory and practice. These reflections include: issues about expertise and how to ‘make with sensors’; how inner states of being can be communicated in social situations; non-human relations and the possibility of radical communication beyond the human; and questions about materiality and performance and the role of the manifesto in relation to devices. These points are developed to argue that despite the radical promise of biosensors to offer new forms of communication, the objects they produce often fail. However, the process of design and making open up questions about the technological horizon and possibilities for connection in a device orientated culture.

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CCN+; EPSRC

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  • Published

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  • Published version

Journal

Digital Culture and Society

ISSN

2364-2114

Publisher

De Gruyter

Issue

1

Volume

3

Page range

147-158

Department affiliated with

  • Media and Film Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Humanities Lab Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-06-29

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-06-28

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-06-29

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