ABSTRACT
The cross-cutting collaborative project FEEDBACK: Vibrotactile Materials Informing Artistic Practice searches for transformative artistic potential through the experience of co-making new musical instruments. We aim to explore vibrational modes in materials and an embodied interaction with these objects. The concept of feedback across nature and culture inspires and pervades our art and engineering collaboration to explore the inherent resonant properties, metaphorical readings and new aesthetics of these materials. Co-creating new dialogic spaces between practitioners’ diverse and at times opposite processes inform polymorphic art practices in asynchronous ways. Our work is based on research into engineering natural and artificial materials which are developed in tandem with musical and technological devices. Custom programming is a key area of experimentation, providing an applied context for a feedback loop with dance, music and performance art. This prospective contribution presents the project and reflects on aesthetic and practical lessons learned through this multi-disciplinary collaboration.
