Infrasense

Infrasense was a touring exhibition by artists Robert Saucier and KIT, a collaborative project dealing with electronic virus cultures.

Worms, Back Doors, Trojan Horses and Bugs are some of the more well known terms and metaphors for viral activities on the Internet, on desktops, laptops and in research and development labs around the world. Infrasense used metaphors of the 'Trojan Horse' and the 'Bug' as two elements which were produced as physical sculptural entities and in turn controlled from the Internet. Concepts were taken from the digital worlds, rendered as physical objects, and then the control of the physical returned back to the digital landscape of the World Wide Web.

Infrasense was the first time that Robert Saucier and KIT collaborated on a project. Both artists are based in Montreal, Canada. folly was responsible for the UK branch of an international tour for this exhibition.

The exhibition was first presented in November 2004 at folly's gallery space in Lancaster, alongside a partnership Symposium and series of schools workshops.

A supporting arts and technology conference in collaboration with the Tangible and Wearable Computing Department at Lancaster University with pooch.com (a collective of computer scientists specialising in HCI), hosted in Infolab21 the brand new North West Centre for excellence in ICT was delivered to respond to some of the issues brought about by the exhibition.  The opening night of the exhibition formed part of the 'No one Opens Attachments Anymore' conference and a touring schools workshop by The Owl Project explored animations of robotic inventions within 5 regional Primary Schools.

From January to March 2006 Infrasense toured to the Space4, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, and at Cartwright Hall, Bradford from February to April 2006.