Lab #FF335F
Interactive installation with AR, 2024
TITLE: Lab #FF335F
TECHNICAL INFO: Interactive multi-sensory installation with AR, 2024
PLACE: BLAZAR 2024 /special project in the digital section with the support of SAMOKAT / Museum of Moscow / Moscow, RU
TECHNICAL INFO: Interactive multi-sensory installation with AR, 2024
PLACE: BLAZAR 2024 /special project in the digital section with the support of SAMOKAT / Museum of Moscow / Moscow, RU
CONCEPT & THEORY
Lab #FF335F is an inquiry into speculative service design, investigating the mutual influence of nature, technology, and affective profiling within modern urban environments. The work explores the threshold where human sensory perception meets algorithmic categorization, questioning how the intimate desires and tastes of big city residents can be quantified and navigated through digital interfaces. By mapping human senses in real-time, the project shows that the virtual and physical worlds are deeply interdependent: even when humans generate abstract assets in a digital environment, their choices remain grounded in the tangible reality of their somatic feelings.
INTERACTION
The installation is designed as a physical data-routing path consisting of five distinct stations. Each station isolates and stress-tests one specific human sense: touch, smell, hearing, sight, and taste. To construct an algorithmic map of their sensory preferences, participants interact with custom interfaces at each station, selecting from three distinct sensory positions.
The accumulation of this bodily data culminates in the generation of a personalized AR spatial asset—a digital proxy symbolizing what is essential to the user's sensory framework. This customized talisman is immediately made visible through a smartphone camera and delivered via email, bridging the gap between physical bodily inputs and spatial computing outputs.
RESEARCH OUTCOMES
Deployed publicly for a diverse urban audience, the project served as an empirical study on human sensory delegation. It demonstrated that users are highly willing to translate internal, visceral preferences into digital data packets if rewarded with a responsive, customized spatial asset. This research established a crucial methodological baseline for studying somatic trust and profiling in hybrid environments.
Lab #FF335F is an inquiry into speculative service design, investigating the mutual influence of nature, technology, and affective profiling within modern urban environments. The work explores the threshold where human sensory perception meets algorithmic categorization, questioning how the intimate desires and tastes of big city residents can be quantified and navigated through digital interfaces. By mapping human senses in real-time, the project shows that the virtual and physical worlds are deeply interdependent: even when humans generate abstract assets in a digital environment, their choices remain grounded in the tangible reality of their somatic feelings.
INTERACTION
The installation is designed as a physical data-routing path consisting of five distinct stations. Each station isolates and stress-tests one specific human sense: touch, smell, hearing, sight, and taste. To construct an algorithmic map of their sensory preferences, participants interact with custom interfaces at each station, selecting from three distinct sensory positions.
The accumulation of this bodily data culminates in the generation of a personalized AR spatial asset—a digital proxy symbolizing what is essential to the user's sensory framework. This customized talisman is immediately made visible through a smartphone camera and delivered via email, bridging the gap between physical bodily inputs and spatial computing outputs.
RESEARCH OUTCOMES
Deployed publicly for a diverse urban audience, the project served as an empirical study on human sensory delegation. It demonstrated that users are highly willing to translate internal, visceral preferences into digital data packets if rewarded with a responsive, customized spatial asset. This research established a crucial methodological baseline for studying somatic trust and profiling in hybrid environments.
