TRANSIT is a live, sensory experience of an airport as tactile sound, via its data, intended as an accessible, immersive, moving sound installation, for public space.

How can you experience an Airport from another place?  The project worked with data from Gatwick Airport, AI and local weather, developing a vibrational sound chair and data-directed tactile, soundscape in collaboration with deaf/partial hearing individuals, creating a sensory experience of the airport, its changing mood and activity.

Set during 2020, when air travel was suddenly thrown into question, the project explores the physical relationship between our bodies, an airport and climate, bringing audiences in closer contact with the natural and human-made systems that surround us.

An an augmented experience via tactile surfaces, the piece creates sensory and accessible ways of experiencing flight activity data, in realtime, through touch.

Credits:
Helen Dewhurst   Artist/Concept
Jeph Vanger   Sound Design
Andrew Lea   Artificial Intelligence Data Scientist, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Brighton
Baran Elitez   Data development

Supported by:
University of Brighton DRIVA Arts DRIVA ‘Superfused’ Collaboration Award 2020

Funded by:
The European Regional Development Fund
Arts Council England’s Creative Local Growth Programme