JND (just noticeable difference) #1: Semblance
Interactive Installation
2009-2010

JND is a new series of multimedia installations that explores the concept of just noticeable difference.

The first project, Semblance, is an interactive installation exploring the phenomenon of cross modal perception – the ways in which one sense impression affects our perception of another sense. The installation comprises a series of modular, portable “pods,” each of which is installed with devices that produce subtle levels of tactile, auditory, visual and olfactory feedback for the visitors, including a floor of vibrotactile actuators that participants lie on, peripheral levels of light, scent and audio sources which generating frequencies on the thresholds of seeing, hearing and smelling.

Location

Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, February 2010

Collaborators

Concept/Direction: Chris Salter
Collaborators: Marije Baalman/Harry Smoak