HANDS is a playful and provocative interactive art installation that intrigues and challenges the public about their body perception and its social interactions. It uses a human-computer interface where the public interacts with itself, extending their body's schema into a swarm of diversified realistic hands. The intention is to create a microcosmos, or by our own definition, a connective body installation, where public and artists can explore alternative social choreographies, body asymmetry and new channels of media expression and mediated communication.
The research project is a collaboration between the researchers Lucas Ogasawara (Embodied Media Lab. at Keio Media Design), Ken Nakagaki (AxLab at Chicago University) and Filippo Roco (Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University) andĀ Marc Teyssier (Resilient Futures at De Vinci Innovation Center) as consultant collaborator.
