Capacitance Sensors in Art

Here are a few assorted links to art projects that somehow use a capacitance sensor. Most of them use it as a user interface, often as a way to create a touch sensor out of an object. Some use them for analog input, a la a Theremin. The QT113 chip is a popular choice for a binary sensor.

• Imagination/Isolation, touch sensitive sculpture

• DC3 touch sensitive light sculpture, in a Dorkbot show: [1][2][3]

• sound mixer with touch activation

• rice sculpture with water bowl activation

• human-sensing hammock with nearby high-voltage discharge

• BabySense Environment

• Lumabloom

• Non-conventional interfaces using Stamp controllers, from 6th Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia Preliminary Proceedings. See section 6.3.1, about Chris Rule MA thesis involving an installation with a capacitance sensing room. Reference: C Rule (1999) Conveniently Public, MA Digital Arts dissertation, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University.

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Garth Zeglin, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.