Do you have experience with 3D technologies, game design or immersive interface design?
At Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS), University College London (UCL), scientists are developing new technologies to help doctors with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
‘OpUs: Illuminating Disease’, commissioned by WEISS, is a new collaborative project run by Richard Colchester, a Research Fellow at UCL and Priya Odedra, an interdisciplinary artist and University of the Arts London (UAL) graduate.
About
OpUS aims to engage the public in the complexities, social and ethical implications of new medical technologies - including imaging devices, AI for diagnosis and robotics to assist surgeons. We’re looking to work with an immersive interface designer on an interactive, audio-visual installation, which will be displayed virtually as part of an online exhibition in July 2021.
Through the installation, the viewer will experience what it’s like to control a new imaging device in microscopic parts of the human body - the challenges, precision and balance required. The input is informed by movement in the space and proximity to the surrounding walls, whilst the output takes the form of light and sound displays. Although we’re still at the planning stage, you can see some sketches of what the installation might look like, above.
Project proposal
Idea 1: As the viewer approaches the walls, the sound frequency is higher and high-frequency colours of visible light are activated - blue, indigo violet. Further away from the walls, the sound frequency is lower and low-frequency colours of visible light are activated - yellow, orange, red, green.
Idea 2: As the viewer approaches the walls, the sound frequency is higher and the orange/red light (representing the narrowing of the blood vessel from ‘plaque’) is brighter, whereas the yellow/green light (which represents the effect of the imaging device) is dimmer. This effect is reversed as the viewer moves away from the walls.
Contact us
This will be a paid opportunity.
If you’re working in 3D technologies, game design or immersive interface design, particularly in the context of creative outputs, we want to hear from you. Please send a brief introduction, outlining your experience in this area to opus.illuminatingdisease@gmail.com
Following this, we’d like to arrange a consultation to discuss the project brief and timescales.
Deadline Extended
4 April 2021