INTIMAL integrates technological interfaces that invite people to listen to their migrations and to improvise with body movement, voice and words, in networked and telematic performances (between distant locations). These are technologically mediated “embodied” interfaces to explore sense of place and sense of presence through telematic sonic improvisation, listening to relations involving body, memory and place, in the context of human migration. This development seems to be relevant not only for people who have experienced migration, but for everyone feeling geographoically and culturally dislocated, such is the case with environmental breakdown.
The interfaces in INTIMAL system make relations between walking, breathing and oral memories. Walking is proposed as the movement to sense place and directions, and breathing as an emotional bridge to feel presence (co-located and between distant locations), and togetherness.
Initially, the INTIMAL system prototype included MEMENTO, RESPIRO and TRANSMISSION, as part of the Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship 2017-2019. Derived from these prototypes I designed the INTIMAL App©, which is being informed as a mobile walkabout hybrid telematic environment.
INTIMAL: Interfaces for Relational Listening 