Shiver:
An Interactive Sculpture with Sensor Control

Shiver is a room where visitors activate flows of water that cling to and seek paths along the walls’ minor topographies. The amount of curvy, crawling rivulets expand as people move within the room. Surface tension and capillary action cause the flows to bulge and contract, giving the rivulets a shivering effect which is both soothing and unnerving, as the watery forms invade a space we expect to be dry and neutral.
 
Shiver is part of a four-room suite called Elemental Bodies. In this series, I seek to create techno-logical systems with sensor-control that both mimic the skin and cause it to react. Images and mechanisms of tactile sensation within these works spark non-verbal conversations between the room and the viewer.
 
I have been awarded a UWM Research Growth Initiative (RGI) Grant to design and fabricate Shiver, the first room of a four-room series of immersive art installations called Elemental Bodies.