currents.systems

CURRENTS

SYSTEMS

Currents.systems is an immersive extended reality performance that turns atmospheric data into a living, responsive environment. Your breath, the air around you, and distant measurement systems are translated into virtual environments.

A sensory record of climate in real time.

Wearing a Metaquest headset, the visitors dive into an immediate visualization of data in shape of plankton floating around them. They can interact with these virtual objects that respond dynamically to touch or motion, illuminating as users engage with their surroundings.

„currents.systems is not a single event, but an ongoing volumetric architecture“.

It is a modular XR framework and app in which each edition builds on the same underlying architecture while allowing artworks, sensors and environmental inputs to shift from location to location. Within this system, 3D objects, data sources, sound environments and spatial logics can be re-curated, exchanged and adapted to new sites. The project is currently in its third volume and continues to evolve through new data integrations, spatial arrangements and collaborative technical development.

PARTICIPATE

Add your own CURRENT to the performance!

The performance can be expanded by adding more sensors and data that are visualized live. One sensor is placed inside, one outside of the museum. Sensors can be added as you wish, to improve data and to visualize the data from different locations in the world.

Purchase a sensor to collect and add your data to the performance. Wherever you place your sensor, it will collect and send the data to the currents.systems performance. You can eventually experience your data by visiting the event.

Your sensor will be added in the currents.system as soon as you purchase it. All you have to do is

Purchase the sensor HERE
supply the sensor with power (battery)
connect it to a wi-fi

The data of your sensor will then be automatically fed into the CURRENTS.SYSTEM and visualized both on this map below and in the extended reality experience at the museum location.

An interactive map of sensor locations will be launched here soon !

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Outdoor Sensor
Collects real-time particulate matter, temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction to reflect the changing atmosphere outside.

Indoor Sensor
Measures indoor CO₂ levels in real time

Nosering
A collectable print that includes a one-day data history measured during the performance, a tangible memory of the atmospheric experienced in currents.systems.

VISION

CURRENTS is an artistic expression aiming to foster environmental awareness. Just as humans shape and mould their environment by their action, influencing and shoving sensible living systems around as they change currents in the air and the oceans, visitors can shape the virtual CURRENTS of the performance with their data and actions.

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ABOUT

xCURRENTS has developed across multiple contexts — from early prototypes during the Spatial Affairs Residency (Vol. I), to festival presentations in Colombia (Vol. II), and now as an extended installation at Kunsthaus Aargau (Vol. III). Across these iterations, the work has grown as both an artistic practice and a digital infrastructure: a long-term investigation into how atmospheric data can be experienced sensorially.
The project is created and directed by Géraldine Honauer, in collaboration with an international network of developers, designers and institutions. Full credits and partners are listed below.

CREDITS
Software Vol. III: currents.systems
Art Direction & Systemarchitektur: Géraldine Honauer | Software Engineer: Leonard Gable | Software Developer (Unity): Jakub Mirovský, VRPunk | 3D-Design: Robbie Mueller, Daniel Boubet | Sound Design: Sound Effects BBC, AI-Sound | Sensordesign: Decentlab | Sensorintegration: Akenza | 3D printing and technical consultancy: Ivan Hörler | Website support: Vidya Kelie

XR operations and technical support for the opening event at Kunsthaus Aargau: Alexey Chinarov / vrent.ch

Software Vol. II: currents.systems
Software Developer (Unity): Florian Weinrich | 3D-Design: Daniel Boubet

Software Vol. I: currents.systems
Partners (Spatial Affairs): iart (Basel), TEKNIKER (Spain) and metaLAB (at) Basel | Software Developer (Unity): Florian Weinrich | 3D-Design: Daniel Boubet | Cultural Partners: Tabakalera (San Sebastián), HEK (House of Electronic Arts), MAP (Museum of Art & Photography, Bangalore).

Fundings: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (as part of the Spatial Affairs program), Aargauer Kuratorium (Freiraum).

CURRENTS continues to grow as a modular, site-responsive project, and is open to new collaborations, presentations, and institutional partnerships.

Let’s turn air into visible action!
contact(at)currents.systems