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“10VE” is a participatory musical biofeedback and movement composition for two actuators and an audience investigating on the relationship between surveillance and private space by interconnecting contemporary electronic music, performance and participatory art through technology. The project started in 2014 by Antoni Rayzhekov and Katharina Köller within the ATALAIA Artes art residency, Ourique - Portugal and with the support of BKA – Kunst, Austria.

We built a special biometric device that tracks our bio-signals, such as tension level, heart beat, breath and movement, as well as a motion detection system tracking the audience´s presence, all together forming an unique audio-visual instrument controlling the audio-visual composition during the performance. By sonifying the emotional relation between us - as performers - and between us - as one group with the audience, we create a musical representation of the psycho-physical processes occurring in all of us during the 20 min. musical performance.

"In 10VE the performers’ bodily states are both the result of the act of performing as well as the show itself. The piece makes visible the emotional state shared between the audience and the performers as each influences the other. By measuring these "psychophysical" processes, 10VE also raises the question regarding the agency that data affords, in that it not only documents behaviors but also facilitates behavioral change. Here, that cycle is taken to the extreme, creating a real-time feedback loop and a confluence of synergistic forces that exemplify the visceral impact that data can have."

-- ARCADE Magazine | Seattle, USA

Within our modern and „transparence society“ the question of private space has to be asked anew. What is private space today? Originally private and public space were clearly deferrable from each other. Nowadays there is a new public space, a global public space, that stretches over country boarders and continents, that reaches deeply into the ex-private space of apartments and sleeping rooms, into friendships and intimate love-relationships - the digital space.

We expose ourselves permanently to this new, digital publicity, where we can model the private, where we can invent ourselves anew and stream our optimized-selves into the digital world.

At the same time we see ourselves confronted with a new phenomenon. Private information is often, without our knowledge and approval, collected by governmental institutions and commercial enterprises. „Governments and enterprises have converted the internet into an unprecedented zone of mass surveillance“, Glenn Greenwald, 2014 Facebook-inventor Mark Zuckerberg comments this development as follows: „Privacy is no longer a social norm“, Mark Zuckerberg, 2010 The influence that the public space has over the handling of the private is often invisible.

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