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====== Ilinx ======
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|title=Ilinx|
|participants=[[people:Ian Hattwick]]\\
 [[people:Marcello Giordano]]\\
 [[people:Ivan Franco]]|
|participants2=[[people:Deborah Egloff]]\\
 [[people:Marcelo M. Wanderley]] (supervisor)|
|collaborators=[[people:Chris Salter]]\\
 TeZ\\
 Valerie Lamontagne\\
 Isabelle Campeau\\
 Marie-Eve Lecavalier Lemieux|
|collaborators2=Omar Falleh\\
 Panagiotis Tomaras\\
 Morgan Rauscher\\
 Ian Arawjo|
|funding=Canada Council for the Arts’ GRAND NCE Media Artist and Scientist Collaboration scheme|
|type=Collaborative Project|
|period=Sept. 2013 - Sept. 2014.|
|status=ongoing.|
|image=projects:ilinx:ilinx_small.jpg
|caption=Haptic Suit.
}}

===== Project Description =====

Ilinx is a performative environment for the general public provoking an intense bodily experience that blurs the senses of sight, sound and touch. In the environment, a group of four visitors at a time wear specially designed garments. These wearables are outfitted with various sensing and actuating devices that enable visitors to interface with the performance space. During the event, a ritualistic progression which lasts approximately twenty minutes, the natural continuum between sound and vibration, vision and feeling becomes increasingly blurred, extending and stretching the body’ boundaries beyond the realm of everyday experience.

The project is inspired by work in the area of what is called sensory substitution – the replacement of one sensory input (vision, hearing, touch, taste or smell) by another, while preserving some of the key functions of the original sense.

The term ilinx (Greek for whirlpool) comes from the French sociologist Roger Caillois and describes play that creates a temporary but profound disruption of perception as is common in experiences of vertigo, dizziness, or disorienting changes of speed, direction or the body’s sense in space. “…An attempt to momentarily destroy the stability of perception and inflict a kind of voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind.”

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===== Publications =====

  * Valerie Lamontagne, Ian Hattwick, [[people:Marcello Giordano]], [[people:Ivan Franco]], [[people:Deborah Egloff]], Maurizio Martinucci, Christopher Salter, Marcello Giordano, and [[people:Marcelo M. Wanderley]]. {{publications:ilinx_isea2015.pdf|"The Ilinx Garments: Whole-body tactile experience in a multisensorial art installation."}} In //Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Art//, 2015, Vancouver, Canada. (accepted)
  * Ian Hattwick, [[people:Ivan Franco]], [[people:Marcello Giordano]], [[people:Deborah Egloff]], Valerie Lamontagne, Ian Arawjo, Maurizio Martinucci, Chris Salter, and [[people:Marcelo M. Wanderley]]. {{publications:icmc_ilinx2015.pdf|"Compositional Approaches to the Design and Use of A Vibrotactile Garment."}} In //Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference//, 2015, Denton, USA. (accepted)
  * [[people:Marcello Giordano]], Ian Hattwick, [[people:Ivan Franco]], [[people:Deborah Egloff]], Valerie Lamontagne, TeZ, Chris Salter and [[people:Marcelo M. Wanderley]]. {{publications:giordano_smc2015_diseq1.pdf|"Design and Implementation of a Whole-Body Haptic Suit for “Ilinx”, a Multisensory Art Installation"}} In //Proceedings of the SMC Conference//, 2015.

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===== More Information =====

[[http://chrissalter.com/projects/ilinx/|Ilinx page at Chris Salter's website]]


{{tag>Haptics Collaboration Embedded_Systems Vibrotaction}}