SINGAPORE – Might an actor sometime be wired as much as expertise the reactions and feelings of an viewers – and reply to them in actual time?
That’s the purpose of A Area For Digital Attunement, a mind laptop interface developed by Ms Serena Pang and Ms Ng Wen Lei, each 38.
It at the moment exists as a helmet prototype that makes use of sensors to venture suggestions onto a display, however Ms Pang, a efficiency research researcher and an actor herself, believes it would in the future enable theatre practitioners to attach higher to audiences.
The prototype is a part of the Arts x Tech Lab showcase, launched on Tuesday (Feb 15) by the Nationwide Arts Council (NAC) and its expertise companion, Keio-NUS Cute Centre.
Arts x Tech Lab is a platform for the humanities group to discover technological functions in fields comparable to literature, music and dance. It faucets on applied sciences comparable to digital actuality (VR) and synthetic intelligence (AI).
A panel of expertise and tradition sector specialists chosen 10 tasks – by groups of varied sizes – from 135 entries final 12 months to be developed as prototypes.
The choice was based mostly on the potential of the venture for additional experimentation in addition to the contributors’ readiness to conduct sensible experiments.
NAC deputy chief government Lynette Pang stated the ten groups have been supplied with $1,000 to work on their concepts throughout the developmental part and as much as $30,000 for prototype improvement.
The prototypes are actually on show until Friday (Feb 18) on the Nationwide Museum of Singapore to potential traders and the general public.
Different prototypes on show vary from an AI music companion to Folko, an audio-based, shared storytelling app.
Mr Christian Teo, 31, certainly one of Folko’s creators, described the app as a manner of collectively shaping the narrative of the artwork type of storytelling within the digital age.
NAC’s Ms Pang stated: “The inaugural version of the lab has met NAC’s anticipated outcomes, and the council intends to proceed supporting such labs for the sector sooner or later.”
The place: Gallery Theatre, Nationwide Museum Singapore, 93 Stamford Highway
When: Until Feb 18, 10am to 7pm every day
Admission: Free
