Digiti Sonus is an interactive fingerprint sonification or interactive sound installation that transforms human’s fingerprints into musical sound. The idea is to allow audience to explore their own identities through unique sound generated by their fingerprint patterns based on algorithmic computing and a physical device. The captured sound is looped and harmonized with other fingerprint sound so that the result is a real time experimental music as a representation of intergrated human identities and societal communication.
PhD thesis:
https://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/lib/ark:/48907/f3gb246p
Conference/Journal Paper:
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LEON_a_00613
https://www.mat.ucsb.edu/Publications/Digiti_Sonus_NIME_Final.pdf
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2396418
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2725456
Personal Website:
http://yoonchunghan.com/portfolio/
Mind-controlled spermatozoa. The female body has long been a site of contention, where opposing ideologies in religion, politics, and cultural differences often play out. The female body has become a vessel by which systems of ideas are manifested. Can a woman vote or serve in the military? Can she wear pants, or must she be veiled? Does she have agency in deciding her own reproductive health choices? Reflecting on the cultural and scientific discourses that shape notions of the female body, this project challenges the status quo. In an expression of female empowerment, a woman control something inherently and symbolical male: spermatozoa (sperm). Through the use of a brain-computer interface, she controls the movement of sperm with the agency of her thoughts.
Personal Website:
https://ani-liu.com
