Perceptrum - Artist Statement

Perceptrum² is not merely adding sound to painting; we are proposing a new ontological role for painting in a post-immersive era.

Our work explores the intersection of sound, image, and human perception through the Sounding Canvas, an ongoing body of work that functions as a responsive surface mediating between the image, the body, and the sonic environment.

Touch as Epistemology

In traditional painting, the body stops at the eyes; it is a contemplative distance. In immersive art, the body is swallowed by space. The Sounding Canvas proposes a third state of painting: a physical, painted surface where the body negotiates meaning through touch. Here, perception is dialogical and interpretation becomes an action.

The Relational Object

Through embedded sensing and augmentation, the painting becomes a relational object, it listens, remembers, and responds. It exists simultaneously as a surface, a score, an interface, and a memory object. This is not a technical detail, but a philosophical repositioning that allows the work to possess its own semantics and "history of interactions."

The Augmented Trajectory

The Sounding Canvas operates as the missing link between the pictorial tradition and the future of interaction. It establishes Augmented Painting as a distinct ontological category, extending the studio tradition into the realm of embodied interaction. Within this trajectory, the physical painted surface evolves from a static object into a responsive medium, a living archive where semiographic research and the logic of physics converge. The canvas becomes a permanent language of interaction and the primary mediator of human connection.

Back to Home