CYNETART 09:: Jannis Kreft :: Zen Station - Videos

www.dance-tech.net Short interview with artist Jannis Urle Kilian Kreft, creator of Zen Station || meditative computer game presented at CYNETART 09 Festival in Dresden, Germany. Zen Station is a computer game for two players controlled by so-called bio-feedback. It allows new forms of communication between humans and machine to be experienced. The playing surface is projected by video projector onto a rectangular box, which contains an oximeter and a heart rate monitor. The heart rate and oxygen saturation of the blood can be analysed in real time for both players by means of sensor technology. Virtual forms of life are thus generated based on the touching of the sensor area. Their shape and size will be dependent on the heart rate of the respective player. The goal of the game is to defeat the opponent by remaining calm and composed. The player with the lower heart rate in the long run will win. Produced by marlon barrios solano dance-tech.net under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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