Setup
The exhibition space is set like a room with three contiguous walls. The central wall is the main screen. At the center of the main screen, suspended from the floor at 30 cm., are attached two long cables (blue and white, embedded in plastic tubes) running from the sensors. On the side walls are projections of a 'baroque' wall paper drawings.
I’m wearing two pair of sensors: a thermistor inside my left nostril, which monitors the exhalation cycles of my respiration, and a gas sensor on my back, which monitors environmental data (the carbon dioxide level in the exhibition space). These signals are converted into real-time generated visual outputs. The range of the CO2 level in the exhibition space will be monitored and revealed by the digital creature which might lose the initial range of colors, heading towards black in case of higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air I’m breathing in. During the performance one can hear the fatigued sound of my respiration over time.

Project credits:
Environment programming: Steven Pickles (pix)
Hardware interface design: Kees Reedijk
Supported by [ars]numerica, Montbeliard (FR),
Optofonica Laboratory for Immersive ArtScience and Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)