"Vironment": An Art of Wearable Social Distancing
This is an incremental contribution focused on art and social commentary, with no clear problem for a specific audience beyond conceptual exploration.
The paper presents 'Vironment', an art piece that uses wearable technology to address social distancing by re-situating security and surveillance technologies on the body, and introduces a conceptual framework for sensing self, others, and the environment.
"Vironment" is a series of art pieces, social commentary, technology, etc., based on wearable health technologies of social-distancing, culminating in a social-distancing device that takes the familiar world of security and surveillance technologies that surround us and re-situates it on the body of the wearer (technologies that become part of us). This piece also introduces a conceptual framework for (1) the sensing of the self together with (2) sensing of others and (3) sensing of the environment around us.