July 3-5
11-5PM
July 3-5 11-5PM
presented by 30-06
The Living Room
A living audiovisual installation inside Foreland’s Tower Stair.
Plants, architecture, atmosphere, and visitors become part of a shared sensing environment where invisible exchanges are translated into evolving sound and image.
The Living Room transforms Foreland’s Tower Stair into a living sensing environment.
SENSING SYSTEM
THE ENVIRONMENT, IN CONVERSATION.
Plants continuously generate electrical activity that changes in response to their surroundings. To capture these subtle fluctuations, The Living Room uses custom-built capacitance sensing technology developed specifically for the installation. These sensors measure subtle fluctuations in the plants' electrical activity, transforming biological signals into live data that continuously shapes sound and image.
As conditions shift throughout the stair, the installation continuously changes in response, revealing relationships that often remain invisible. Rather than producing a fixed output, the system remains in continuous dialogue with the conditions around it.
AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM
Distributed across six floors, the installation functions as a single continuous audiovisual composition. Live data from the sensing system alters the surrounding sound in real time, creating an environment that shifts with the conditions of the stair.
Custom software also transforms bio-data into evolving visual forms inspired by patterns that recur throughout nature. Root systems, river networks, lightning paths, and neural connections emerge from similar underlying principles of branching, connection, growth, and emergence.
Together, sound and image form a responsive system shaped by plant life, architecture, atmosphere, and human presence.
Structure
The Living Room unfolds through four interconnected states: Root (1), Growth (2), Bloom (3), and Decay (4). Distributed throughout Foreland's six-story Tower Stair, each explores a different phase within a continuous cycle of emergence, expansion, transformation, and return.
Root occupies Floor 2, where electrical activity shapes dense visual structures and a low, textural sonic environment grounded in rumble and resonance. Growth extends through Floor 3, opening into a more ambient field as patterns branch, connect, and evolve. Bloom reaches Floor 5, where sound becomes lighter, more ethereal, and expansive, while visuals diffuse into luminous atmospheric forms.
Suspended within the central shaft, Decay acts as a sculptural counterpoint to the ascent. While it does not generate data, it explores processes of dissolution, fragmentation, and renewal, completing the installation's larger cycle.
Together, these states form a responsive environment in which plants, architecture, atmosphere, and visitors become part of a shared sensing system.
about us
30–06 is an interdisciplinary art and architecture practice creating site-specific installations, spatial systems, and experiential environments.
