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I undertook a short research residency at St. Finbarr's Hospital in Cork working with residents of the Elderly Medicine Ward at the hospital over several weeks between 2005 and 2006. I worked with a small number of women to make sound recordings of people's voices and from objects found around the ward. In response to this experience I made some simple prototype interactive objects which could trigger the sound clips people had made.
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One set of objects included a light sensor interfaced with
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Another device used a capacitive sensor using
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St.Finbarr's
a participative project working with older people living in hospital.
2005-06
A residency at St. Finbarr's Hospital & Triskel, Cork, Ireland during Cork European City of Culture 2005.
With special thanks to Charlotte Donovan.