Conference Presentation: ACM SPARKS, Interabilities in 21st Century Art and Technology, 2026

Sensing the System

Interactions with technology are sensorial and driven by individual cognitive processing. As such, diverse sensing and information processing mechanisms can structure divergent technological designs. Digital twins–algorithmic representations of humans– offer opportunities for grounding digital actions in sensorial experience. This presentation introduces Digital Twin, a year-long research-driven art exhibition that encourages self-recognition beside algorithmic systems through embodiment, perception, and sensation. As installations engage perceptual mismatch through ambiguous gesture, variable proximity, and temporal delay, viewers produce responses shaped by individual sensory orientation, attention, and prior experience. Rather than a failure of algorithmic efficacy, misalignment is leveraged as an indication of human complexity, encouraging self-recognition through sustained interaction, framing interactive systems as mediating artifacts reconfiguring human–technology relationships.