Development and evaluation of participant-centred biofeedback artworks

Abstract

This exegesis details the development of four interactive artworks that enable audiences to observe and reflect on aspects of their own psychophysiology, using the technologies of biofeedback interaction as a way of situating the participant's subjectivity and bodily experiences within each other as reciprocal phenomena. The central theme addressed through these works concerns the representation and experience of subjectivity as a physiologically embodied phenomenon. Although contemporary theories of psychophysiology and phenomenology have overturned the idea of mind-body separation, many forms of cultural practice continue to represent subjectivity as a fundamentally disembodied phenomenon. The artworks documented in this exegesis extend this process of re-examination through the use of interacting bio-sensing technologies and audience participation. Each of the works create a space where participants and observers alike can become present to aspects of body-mind process.

Date of Award	2006
Original language	English