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Team Members
Jon Somerscales — Storyworld Architect
Enrico “Mad“ Paiardi - Systems Imagineer
Project Category
Experimental collaborative web experience
Vision
How does your project express a perspective on The New Human?
The new human as an expanded, connected collection of interactions and micro-organisms.
Exploration
What are you experimenting with or discovering through this project?
Expanding human consciousness and collaborative potential. Non verbal communication. Human-coral system interaction.
Collaboration
How does your project involve collaboration between people, disciplines, or systems?
Our team spans the Storyworld Architect, Alchemist and Systems Engineer roles.
Art and Technology
How do art and technology interact in your project?
We use body tracking to give the user the direct representative experience of being made of a particle system. We use the affordances of websockets to enable telepresence and collaborative participation between users.
Depth
What deeper reflection or question does your project raise?
How it feels to be expansive. How technology can enable different forms of collaboration and communication.
White Mirror
How does your project imagine a positive, human-centered future?
We explore digital technology as a tool for expansive connected thinking. How can we prototype new positive ways of shared connection and communication? How can digital interactions have a positive impact on the environment?
Tools & Materials Used
List the main tools, technologies, or materials used in your project.
Software / AI / Data
HTML5, three.js, shaders, mediapipe, node.js, websockets, Claude
Media / Output
Collaborative multi-user web app
Other Tools or Materials
Project Demo / How to Experience It
Below is a video walk-through of our current prototype.
What’s Next?
• Finish merging the multi-user backend with the interactive frontend
• Test, refine and expand the behaviour in several exciting potential directions
• Optimise and improve the particle system edge-cases
• Align the project with the CODAME Print Club format
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