Katherine Boehm
My work is rooted in philosophy and play with a niche in sound and invisible interaction. As an new media artist, creative technologist, musician and improvisor, I aim to stimulate thought and reframe elements of our present to better understand our relationship with each other, with the world and with our future both near and far.
Emanations
Emanations is a series of spatialized sound experiments using physical gestures and movement, turning human body into an interface for audio perspective control.
These experiments serve as interactive playgrounds, creating introspective, emergent and performative experiences within the potential/limits of human body without any wearable sensors, as well as an investigation in embodied music cognition; generating connections between the individual, their body, movement and gestures through sound, allowing for a new analysis and understanding in the roles of performer and audience.
The sonic representations of the human gestures and movement develop as processes of technogenesis on a continuum of awareness of body as interface; from personal to performative.
Deriving its roots from the philosophy of nothingness to guide the methodology of invisible interaction and lack of instruction, these poetic experiences reveal themselves to their users in layers offering the right mix of abstraction in narrative and freedom in interaction to create an unguided, improvised and unique experience.