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How do we trust each other online? Do you need to see my eyes? Or do we need to touch?
How do we trust as networking bodies?
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Tele_Trust creates an engaging agora, researching new parameters for online trust. It faces us with a paradox: while in our changing social eco-system we increasingly demand transparency, we cover our bodies with personal communication techno-
logy. In a visual, poetic way, Tele_Trust researches emotional and social tension in our contemporary hybrid cities - between visibility, presence, privacy and trust.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Tele_Trust networked performance-installation takes place in dynamic
city semi-public spaces, like train station, museum, festival.
Here the audience meets in an interactive DataVeil.
This DataVeil is a tangible body interface for 'scanning online trust':
DataVeil. The DataVeil is a full body covering garment, Gender neutral, and
One size fits all. Its design is inspired by eastern and western traditions, like a monks’ habit, a burqa, Darth Vader, and a 'trustworthy' chalk stripe business suit.
When wearing the DataVeil it functions as a second skin. Flexible, invisible touch sensors woven into the smart fabric of the veil, transform your body into an intuitive, tangible interface. It is a a membrane for scanning an intimate, networking body experience:
Smartphone App connecting smartphone to a DataVeil.
Can I touch you now? By touching your body in the DataVeil, you meet strangers online through their smartphones. Inside the DataVeil you may be unidentifiable but before ‘disappearing’ your portrait is added to an online database. By gently caressing their screens, anonymous smartphone users worldwide can unveil your face online. In an intimate body experience and real time audio, you share emotions and statements of trust, about the questions: Am I here with you? Who is watching who? Who is controlling who? In what identity and in whose body?
Database.
The interactive wearable DataVeil creates a disruptive social system for an innovative, embodied and reflective social encounter. In an ongoing process, user generated content is continuously added to the Tele_Trust database.
With the DataVeil the artists collect knowledge about ‘privacy’ and ‘trust’ in different social-geographical cultures. Stories from different cities weave
together into an exchanging narrative -
Everyone can wear a DataVeil.
NEW:
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 'AugmentIt!'
17-5-2012, Trouwgebouw: Wibautstraat 127, Amsterdam.
Istanbul ISEA 2011
September 14-19 the Tele_Trust perfromance and installation will be shown at ISEA 2011 Istanbul; during the Istanbul Bienale. During this period we will also exchange with designers in Istanbul and Amsterdam to develop a new series of DataVeils. The new series will be shown in Istanbul; and in Amsterdam at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (curator Margriet Schavemakers) and Technical University Delft.
DETAILED TEXT + DRAWING MODELS + R&D
http://www.being-here.net/page/3051/en
Photo's and texts of participants Tele_Trust Performance:
http://www.teletrustlab.net/
Tele_Trust performance-installations 2009-2011:
ISEA 2011 Istanbul & Biennale Istanbul
Kasa Gallery & Sabanci University Istanbul
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
V2_Lab for UnstableMedia
Banff Center - New Media Institute Canada
Festival a/d Werf & PSI Utrecht
De Balie Amsterdam
ADA-network Dunedin New-Zealand
Waag Society for Old&New Media Amsterdam
Technical University of Delft
Lumineus Amersfoort
Tschumi-Pavillion Groningen
Exposorium Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gogbot Enschede
ARTEZ Studium Generale
Tele-Trust on conferences:
Shanghai World-Expo 2010 Mobile City & Virtueel Platform at DCC //
TEDx Istanbul
Sonic-Acts Xlll Amsterdam
Leonardo@ARS-ELECTRONICA Linz
PSI and University of Utrecht Camillo 2.0
University of Amsterdam and NIMK Amsterdam The Bodily Turn
University Sabanci Istanbul
University of Utrecht Vrede of Utrecht / Utrecht Interactive
Artists-in-residency BNMI Canada //
With generous support of:
Mondriaan Fund:
Interregeling & International Presentations & research grant.
Lumineus Amersfoort; AFK Amsterdam;
V2_Lab for unstable media; Banff Center Canada, Consulate of Istanbul.
