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Soul/Soil by Ricoh: Soul Motion
2025
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SOUL MOTION は、ユニフォームに組み込まれたロケーションタグを用いたインタラクティブマップです。センサーはリアルタイムのデータを捉えるとともに、過去3日間の天候やコミュニケーションの総量、来場者数、個々の軌跡といった記録を映し出します。
来場者が「土」や「ソファ」のゾーンに近づくと、仮想の微生物がその位置に群がり、環境条件によって繁殖したり衰えたりする様子を映します。センサーに軽く触れるとそれらは散り去り、絶えず変化する動的な地図が現れます。
微生物やテクノロジー、人間関係の繊細なリズムといった不可視のプロセスを映し出すことで、SOUL MOTION は私たちを取り巻く隠れた環境を見直し、人と人、人と自然とのつながりを改めて考えるきっかけを生み出します。
SOUL MOTION is an interactive map and art installation that visualises the live movements, distances travelled, and communications between six staff members wearing sensor-embedded garments. The sensors capture both real-time data as well as archive records from the past three days, including weather conditions, levels of communication, visitor numbers, and individual activity trails.
As participants approach the soil or sofa zones, virtual microbes begin to cluster around their positions, echoing how microorganisms thrive or diminish depending on environmental conditions. A simple tap on the sensors makes the microbes disperse, transforming the experience into a dynamic microbial map that constantly shifts between presence and absence.
By rendering these invisible processes such as microbes, technology, and the subtle rhythms of human interaction, SOUL MOTION invites visitors to reconsider the hidden environments around them and to reflect on how we connect not only with one another, but also with nature itself and encourages communications.
