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Making sense of sensors
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-09, 06:56 authored by Kate O'RiordanKate O'Riordan, Jennifer Parker, David Harrison, Emile DevereauxEmile DevereauxThe 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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Digital Culture and SocietyISSN
2364-2114Publisher
De GruyterExternal DOI
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1Volume
3Page range
147-158Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
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- Sussex Humanities Lab Publications
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2017-06-29First Open Access (FOA) Date
2018-06-28First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-06-29Usage metrics
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