The Slow Floor - Curated by Aanya Roennfeldt

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The advent of new technologies has changed the way we perceive and experience our environment. Time is now measured by the rate of change in the technological interface. Our activity is constantly mediated by task bars on screens, mouse movements and cursors. This activity is disembodied, and the expectation is that the results of our efforts are instantly rewarded.The Aesthetics of Slow addresses two issues within this technologically mediated behaviour. The first being the assumption that we want to complete a task in the shortest amount of time. The second is that we become inert and are forced to interact with this information using limited sensory engagement. The Aesthetics of Slow is inspired by the move in Human-Computer Interaction to consider non time efficient activity delivered through multimodal and ambient interfaces.Frank Feltham creates an intelligent environment that will trace your presence and movement through the modulation of sound and video; an aesthetic experience attempting to influence the time you take to engage with the technological environment. This environment includes a floor with embedded pressure sensors that accurately measure walking and moving. This pressure data is translated to sound and video; the sound provides the participant with an ambient sense of their presence and movement through its unique modulation, the video gives the participant explicit information on the time spent on each section of the floor. These two sources of movement information encourage the participant to question the time spent engaging in the environment.