"Vironment": An Art of Wearable Social Distancing

TL;DR

"Vironment" presents wearable social distancing technology integrated into art, emphasizing self, others, and environment sensing to reframe surveillance tech as personal body-worn devices.

Contribution

Introduces a conceptual framework for wearable social distancing devices combining self, others, and environment sensing in an artistic context.

Findings

Development of wearable social distancing device

Framework for sensing self, others, and environment

Artistic integration of surveillance technology

Abstract

"Vironment" is a series of art pieces, social commentary, technology, etc., based on wearable health technologies of social-distancing, culminating in a social-distancing device that takes the familiar world of security and surveillance technologies that surround us and re-situates it on the body of the wearer (technologies that become part of us). This piece also introduces a conceptual framework for (1) the sensing of the self together with (2) sensing of others and (3) sensing of the environment around us.