Christoffel Kuenen, Gabriel Bohm Calles and Niclas Kaiser, When I Becomes We, Performance with the Nuna (located in the newly renovated UmArts Studio and the Arts Campus Library).
At the heart of the installation will be the Nuna machine itself, a kind of teleprompter with specific software and a robotic camera. The Nuna allows users to authentically experience eye contact in the virtual world. It is designed to identify new opportunities for transforming detached online meetings into “real” personal connections.
Major ventures within the same realm have recently been launched by Google (Project Starline) and Apple (Vision Pro). What makes the Nuna stand out is the immediate control over eye contact and time delay, factors that are central in human awareness, and for being together in a moment. As such, the Nuna gives us a clearer understanding of what’s missing in normal online interactions. Combining the Nuna technology with an artistic investigation of the experiences of being together, this project breakes new ground within multiple fields.
Working across design, art, AI, psychology, neuroscience, and mathematics, the Interpresence Intstitute are using all available methods for putting focus on that special feeling of being present, together.
The team: Christoffel Kuenen, Umeå Institute of Design; Gabriel Bohm Calles, Academy of Fine Art; Niclas Kaiser, Dept of Psychology; David Risberg, Umeå Institute of Design; Performers: Amalia Wänman, Peter Andersson (friday & saturday), Lollo Aurell (friday), Sef Aurell (saturday).