SYLVIA H JANICKI

Sensing Bodies

Postcolonial Entanglements in More-than-Human Interactions

Sensing Bodies is a multi-species interactive experience that integrates plants, biosensors, and data displays with tangible embodied interaction design to examine the sociopolitical entanglements of plants. The installation features a series of interactive exhibits that showcase unique plants from local landscapes and invite different embodied connections. Biodata displays represent embodied encounters as co-created with more-than-human agencies, highlighting reciprocal people-plant relationships while fostering a deeper sensibility toward colonial histories of local landscapes.

For more information, see https://sensingbodies.lmc.gatech.edu/

Publications:
Sylvia Janicki, Alexandra Riggs, Noura Howell, Anne Sullivan, Nassim Parvin. 2023. Sensing Bodies: Postcolonial Entanglements in More-than-Human Interactions. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 41, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3633389.

Sylvia Janicki and Nassim Parvin, 2023. Sensing Bodies: Being, Feeling, and Breathing with Plants. Workshop Position Paper at Designing Interactive Systems Conference DIS ’23. (link)

Exhibitions:

Sylvia Janicki and Nassim Parvin. “Sensing Bodies” in Extensions of Community, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA. Aug 21st– Oct 28th, 2023. (link)

Sylvia Janicki. “Sensing Bodies.” Exhibited at the Reproductive Salon/Reproductive Immersion, King’s College, London, England. May 30th, 2023. (link)

Sylvia Janicki. “A Memorial To Earth.” Demonstrated at the 4S/ECOCITE Annual Conference, Universidad Iberoamericana, Cholula, Mexico, December 6-10th, 2022.

Sylvia Janicki, Noura Howell, Anne Sullivan, Nassim Parvin. “Sensing Bodies: Reflections on Human-Plant Relationships” Demonstrated at the GVU 30th Anniversary Event, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, November 2nd, 2022. (link)

Talks/Presentations:

Sylvia Janicki. “Cultivating Postcolonial Reflections through Multispecies Art Installations” Invited speaker at the Just Futures Hub. Sep 8 – 9, 2023.

Sylvia Janicki, Katherine Bennett, Alexandra Riggs. 2023. Embodied Histories: Crafting Interactive Narratives. Roundtable Discussion at WGS South Conference. Virtual: Mar 30 – Apr 1, 2023.