The Science of Sensation. The Art of Discovery.

An interdisciplinary journey by Dora Motèque and Luciano Ciamarone.

We believe that humanity’s ability to understand one another is key to our future as a species. Through our art, we invite people to nurture their empathy, perception, and relational awareness. We believe that relationship lies at the core of what we call consciousness, intelligence, and ultimately, life. We are what emerges from the framework of our connections.

Featured Project: Sounding Canvas

Image of the featured artwork, Sounding Canvas

Sounding Canvas is our first project as an artistic duo: a family of interactive paintings that come alive through touch, responding with sound as if the surface were capable of listening.

Touching a Sounding Canvas is never a mechanical action. Even the same gesture, repeated in the same place, will not yield the same sound. Each artwork carries its own form of intelligence: it remembers the history of every interaction and interprets the evolving language of gestures. What it gives back is a non-verbal answer, a sound shaped by your presence, your movement, your care.


When connected over the internet, two or more Sounding Canvases form a shared sensory space. A touch on one painting can spark a sound on another, no matter the distance between them. In this way, each piece has a dual life: alone, it acts as an artificial companion capable of dialogue; together, they become mediators of subtle, perceptual communication between distant human beings.


As your fingers meet the surface, the painting answers with evolving sound, opening a delicate conversation that continues if you choose to follow it further.

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Derived Project: Sounding Stage

Sounding Stage is a proprietary interactive scenic environment developed by Perceptrum. It utilizes capacitive sensing on both horizontal (floor) and vertical (curtains) planes, detecting performer proximity and transforming corporeal presence and movement history into complex data for real-time algorithmic sound synthesis.

The platform functions as an active, listening environment: performers’ gestures, speed, and spatial positioning influence the soundscape in real-time. Two distinct zones, the horizontal interactive floor and vertical interactive curtains, allow nuanced control over rhythmic, harmonic, and ambient aspects of the performance, creating a dynamic, immersive experience.

Through adaptive algorithms and movement history interpretation, the Sounding Stage evolves beyond simple triggering, enabling narrative and memory-driven interactions. This technological foundation is versatile and scalable, supporting contemporary dance, physical theatre, and immersive installation works where the environment becomes an active participant.

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Our Mission

Perceptrum seeks to establish Augmented Painting as a new artistic direction that unites visual composition, sound, touch, and computational intelligence. Through our Sounding Canvases, we transform traditional painting into a responsive medium capable of engaging viewers in non-verbal dialogue. Each canvas senses touch and generates sound through intelligent algorithms that evolve with the history of interaction, creating an embodied, multisensory experience where technology remains invisible yet deeply perceptible. Our mission is to pioneer a new artistic language where painting, sound, and touch converge, expanding the expressive possibilities of art and fostering meaningful connections between people, images, and sound, near or far.

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