Kumiko Kushiyama: Tactile Cloud Landscape

Artist(s):

• Kumiko Kushiyama

Title:

Tactile Cloud Landscape

Exhibition:

• SIGGRAPH Asia 2008: Synthesis

Category:

• Interactive & Monitor-Based

Artist Statement:

This simulation of a natural landscape is a tactile artwork that interactively expresses images and movements of clouds. Images and tactile sensations incorporating the soft movements of clouds interact simultaneously to create a tactile display that reacts to human contact. This work could be used as a universal display for the disabled and for various other forms of global communications.

Affiliation Where Artwork Was Created:

Toyko Metropolitan University