Projector loquens

Carolus Linnaeus, the swedish botanist who laid the foundation for the modern scheme of taxonomy, adopted and popularized a system of binomial nomenclature to describe all known species. Binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species in biology. According to Reference.com, "the scientific name of a species is formed by the combination of two terms: the genus name and the species epithet or descriptor." For example, the name of human beings, Homo sapiens is a composition of human genus name, Homo, and a specific epithet of this species, sapiens, which means ‘thinking' or 'wise’. There are several other names by different specific epithets such as Homo faber as the working or making human, Homo loquens as the talking human, Homo ludens as the playful human, etc. Therefore, Projector loquens is the name of a new species since I regard Projector as a new genus coequal with hominid and it has a communicative character and an anxiety for communication.

Projector loquens represents a face-to-face communication of two different creatures. It detects a person in the range of about 2.43m also known as Social distance (4-12 feet) according to Edward Hall’s Proxemic Theory. When the participant comes within 0.45m (1.5 feet) of the projector, which is the boundary of Intimate distance and Personal distance, Projector loquens stops showing images. Em Griffin described Hall’s Intimate distance as “an inner circle of space that the animal will defend against all interlopers” and “boundaries that mark their personal space” among people in his book, A First Look at Communication Theory. He continued, “It’s as if we walk around in an invisible bubble. Those with whom we are intimate may enter into the sphere without harm to either party. Invasion by others causes distress. Because of our animal nature, we all have a zone of personal space, but the area of personal space differs greatly from culture to culture.” The participant standing still to read moving images is regarded as a friend by Projector loquens as opposed to participants moving quickly to avoid projections on their bodies. Projector loquens expresses its emotions in different moving images and sounds since the language of Projector loquens is in the form of movies.


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Short Description
	Projector loquens is an interactive installation representing a situation in which a new species, Projector loquens, attempts to communicate with a different species, Homo sapiens. Projector is regarded as a new genus coequal with hominid and the specific epithet, loquens, indicates its communicative character and anxiety for communication. Projector loquens consists of a projector turntable system, a human detection system, a projection system and movies. Projector loquens speaks in the form of movies in response to a participant's position and speed. The participant's body shape, cloth colors and distance from Projector loquens alter moving images projected on their body. Their way of looking at movies on their chest or abdomen reflects how people project their own perspective onto interlocutors in the face-to-face human communication.
New Species, Projector loquens
	Carolus Linnaeus, the swedish botanist who laid the foundation for the modern scheme of taxonomy, adopted and popularized a system of binomial nomenclature to describe all known species. Binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species in biology. According to Reference.com, "the scientific name of a species is formed by the combination of two terms: the genus name and the species epithet or descriptor." For example, the name of human beings, Homo sapiens is a composition of human genus name, Homo, and a specific epithet of this species, sapiens, which means ‘thinking' or 'wise’. There are several other names by different specific epithets such as Homo faber as the working or making human, Homo loquens as the talking human, Homo ludens as the playful human, etc. Therefore, Projector loquens is the name of a new species since I regard Projector as a new genus coequal with hominid and it has a communicative character and an anxiety for communication. Projector loquens represents a face-to-face communication of two different creatures. It detects a person in the range of about 2.43m also known as Social distance (4-12 feet) according to Edward Hall’s Proxemic Theory. When the participant comes within 0.45m (1.5 feet) of the projector, which is the boundary of Intimate distance and Personal distance, Projector loquens stops showing images. Em Griffin described Hall’s Intimate distance as “an inner circle of space that the animal will defend against all interlopers” and “boundaries that mark their personal space” among people in his book, A First Look at Communication Theory. He continued, “It’s as if we walk around in an invisible bubble. Those with whom we are intimate may enter into the sphere without harm to either party. Invasion by others causes distress. Because of our animal nature, we all have a zone of personal space, but the area of personal space differs greatly from culture to culture.” The participant standing still to read moving images is regarded as a friend by Projector loquens as opposed to participants moving quickly to avoid projections on their bodies. Projector loquens expresses its emotions in different moving images and sounds since the language of Projector loquens is in the form of movies.