The Sensorium Project had four stages: construction of a sensing device called Sensorium, workshops in Salvador and Cachoeira along the coast and river, data visualization, and an art exhibition. The interdisciplinary team created Sensorium to sense the environment along the journey from sea to river through artistic, scientific, and technological means. Sensorium was installed on a boat and used cameras, microphones, and sensors to collect environmental data which was later exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Bahia through various artworks exploring the correlations between Salvador and Cachoeira. The project brought together art, science, and citizen involvement to create new understandings of the environment.

1. Karla Brunet
Ecoarte/UFBA

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• Ecoarte Group/ IHAC / UFBA/ Brazil
• Sponsored by Secult - BA
• Interdisciplinary team

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• Artistic background
• sea, environment, nature
• place, mapping, territory
• identity, community art
• sensing the sea/river/environment
• perceiving
• our own data
• special sailing boat (Saveiro) pathways on the
sea/river between Cachoeira/Salvador

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Project 4 stages:
1st - Construction of Sensorium device
2nd - Actions/Workshops in Salvador, Cachoeira/São
Felix and boat (sea/river)
3rd - Data visualization
4th - Art exhibition

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• Free Hardware Free
• Free Software
• collaborative work
• code as art
• group creation
• Technical and artistic notes on our website
www.ecoarte.info

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Brainstorming and similar projects
Snout and Devorondina

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Hiperorgânicos 2012

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Hiperorgânicos 2012

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13. Sensorium Project
Along 3 major axis:
• Artistic
• Scientific/Environmental
• Technological

14. Graph by Javier Cruz

15. Sensorium Device
• sBrain (processes the sensors) - logo
• sEyes (GoPro and endoscopic camera/snake)
• sEars (microphone)
• sArms (water dissolved oxygen sensor and water
temperature)
• sLegs (endoscopic camera)
• sBody (cart / lifebuoy)

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Artistic
• Performance
• Environmental aesthetics
“The environment is no longer merely an inspiration
for art — it is a setting for the development and
location of art, a forum for debate about art and
society, another clement in the artistic and design
process. Artists are using art to change people’s
perceptions of place, their ability to respond to and
impact on their environment, obliging them to engage
in cultural issues."
ADAMS, 2008:16

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Artistic
•Environmental aesthetics
“We find more satisfaction in art object as we become
aware of their complexity, the skill that went into
their creation and the subtlety in the meanings and
stories they tell”
Angus McWilliam, 2008:35

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Scientific/Environmental
• Citizen Science
“A citizen scientist is a volunteer who collects and/or
processes data as part of a scientific enquiry. Projects
that involve citizen scientistsare burgeoning,
particularly in ecology and the environmental sciences,
although the roots of citizen science go back to the
very beginnings of modern science itself."
Jonathan Silvertown, 2009

54. Sensorium Project
Scientific/Environmental
•Intimate Science
“This kind of practice hinges on up-close observation,
experiential learning, and inventing new ways for the
public to participate in the process. And through their
engagement with “intimate science,” a more
knowledgeable public might well be able to infuence
what research is supported and adopted by the larger
culture, and the walls of science can become more
transparent."
Andrea Grover , 2012

55. Sensorium Project
Scientific/Environmental
•Intimate Science
“In an interesting new development in the art world, a
generation of artists [is] now collecting data about their
world using technological instruments but for cultural
purposes. Shared tool-using leads to overlapping
epistemologies and ontologies. These artists both make
powerful art and help make science intimate, sensual,
intuitive."
Roger Malina, 2009.

56. Art Exhibition
Some of the artwork shown at the Museum of
Modern Art in Bahia
• Sensorium in correlations. Salvador & Cachoeira
• Sensorium in correlations. A journey from the sea to the river
• Exploring Sensorium
• Electrotravelgram
• Sensorium Device
• Sensorium Black Box
• Sensorium Video Map
• Steady, as she goes
• Eye video

68. Thank you very much
Karla Brunet
www.karlabru.net
twitter @ksbrunet
www.ecoarte.info
www.sensorium.ecoarte.info
twitter @_ecoarte