LIVENESS MANIFOLD
Archiving a World of Felt Relation | SIAL Research Project



SIAL Team:
    Pia Ednie-Brown


Project Co-ordinator: Pia Ednie-Brown

Liveness Projects:
|Liveness Website |The Shower | Skins of Intimate Distance |Intimate Transactions haptic feedback system

Liveness Teaching:
Skins of Intimate Distance | Vital Signs | Beyond Representation | Omnipresent Architecture |
Masters + Grad. Cert | The Hive


Liveness is the sense of living presence. This often involves the sense of a presence that is elsewhere, where actions are registered simultaneously across different spaces (geographical, operational, perceptual, disciplinary....). Today, related phenomena are frequently tied up with the increasing perceptual sensitivity of technological operations, often acting to animate objects and events with new kinds of life-like power and complexity. This occurs in quite literal ways through technological invention (such as the proliferation of sensors, artificial intelligence systems etc) and can be felt through the intensified variability, instability and sensitivity of socio-cultural operations.


The Liveness Manifold is a cluster of creative research projects that explore these conditions with an emphasis on the production of closeness across geographic and/or representational distance or, in other words, the sense of immediate, intimate presence through remote means. Attention is focused on ways that affective (qualitative, emergent) dimensions of events might be transduced across distinct media, moments and spaces: how we allow the openness of affectivity to survive (instrumental) shifts of register.

Key members of the Liveness Manifold are: Pia Ednie-Brown, Boo Chapple and Inger Mewburn