Digiti Sonus and Eyes

This paper discusses design process and motivations of two interactive biometric data artworks (Digiti Sonus and Eyes). Narratives and artistic explorations using two forms of biometric data, from fingerprints and the iris, are discussed based on insights from various fields such as genetics, visual feature analysis, user interface design and data visualization and sonification. Digiti Sonus and Eyes extracted the unique visual features of each type of biometric data and transformed the data into musical sound with multimodal interactions so that the result was real time experimental sound. Various aspects of the two artworks are compared in this paper.