Liminal Space

Abstract

Liminal Space explores the creation of a temporary environment through collective motion, lights and sounds, transporting participants from their everyday reality to a meaningful shared experience. The project is an immersive environment but also a happening performed by the visitors of the experience, simultaneously connecting and triggering the interactive audiovisual elements that conform the space. Through a mobile web application that tracks different motion gestures and guided by a conductor, participants are able to modify the dynamic behavior of the room, interacting with each other and with their surroundings. This is primarily a research on how to connect people through their movements in an environment of light and sound and also an exploration on human perception, by bringing them outside of their everyday reality while they step into an imaginary collective space. Digital technologies, as an extension of our senses and all our human capabilities, are a way to explore connection and communication in new ways. My goal is to take people away from the individual interactions they have with their devices everyday, and bring them back into the physical world. I want to create shared experiences that enhance the dialog between our body and our environment, allowing people to become aware of their presence among others, becoming users and shapers of transitory physical spaces.