Core idea
Attention becomes visible.
Signals from the participant are translated into an evolving artistic environment. The data does not become a diagnosis; it becomes material for composition, image and encounter.
Adaptive participatory art research
What happens when attention becomes material?
Ecology of Attention is a live artistic system in which piano, sensory data and responsive visuals turn subtle shifts of attention into a shared spatial experience.
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01 · Project
A personalised cycle between body, sound, data and image.
Ecology of Attention explores how minimal changes in rhythm, focus and sensory input can alter a participant’s perception of a live artistic situation. The project combines live piano performance with compact biosensing, real-time software and responsive visualisation. Rather than measuring attention as a score, the system treats attention as a changing relation: between a person, a sound, a space and the surrounding audience.
Live layer
Piano as a responsive system.
The musical layer reacts to the participant in real time, making listening and embodied presence part of the work itself.
Output
A trace of one encounter.
Each session can result in a unique visual artefact, short video and data-based archive that extends the live moment into an exhibition layer.
ArrivalOrientation, stillness, baseline and sensory focus.
Live encounterPiano, biosignals and attention shifts unfold together.
TranslationSoftware converts the session into responsive visual form.
TraceA unique artwork, video or archive element remains.
02 · Team
Artistic direction, curatorial structure and creative technology.
The project is developed as an interdisciplinary collaboration between performance, production and computational media.
Lena Sloss
Artist · Composer · Pianist · Project Lead
Initiator and artistic lead. Develops the live performance language, participatory format and the project’s research into attention, embodiment and agency.
lenasloss.com
Maiia Lille
Curator · Producer
Shapes the curatorial framework, production logic and public-facing structure of the project, connecting artistic research with exhibition and partnership contexts.
Bert Hermans
Creative Technologist · Coder
Develops the interactive technical layer, real-time software logic and data-to-visual translation that connects sensor input to the adaptive environment.
gizmostudios.net03 · Partners
Built through live research contexts.
Current development is grounded in presentation, testing and pilot environments in the Netherlands.
NDSM FUSE
Het Wilde Westen
04 · Contact