Lucid Touch
Lucid Touch has involved the collaboration of artist Lynne Sanderson, sound designer / programmer Peter Sanson, sleep scientist Dr Cameron van den Heuvel and biomedical engineer Olivia Pallotta.
Lynne Sanderson and Peter Sansom have collaborated on numerous projects in recent years through their company SustEnancE Productions. Need and Primal Debug are two digital animation projects they have developed that have been widely exhibited including MTV Australia and as part of An Eccentric Orbit that opened at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC in 1994. Other collaborations include the multi-screen video/slide installation ...mutant!... 1998 and the interface research project Feedback Acceleration Laboratory (FAL) 2000. In 2002 they have completed the interactive installation Somnolent Fantasies - The Sleeper which has been exhibited at ConVerge - Biennial of Australian Art, Immersion at BEAP - The Biennale of Electronic Art Perth and at +playengines+ at DAC - Digital art and Culture Conference. They also enjoy the immediacy of doing live audiovisual performances. Individually, Sanderson has also exhibited her work in clubs and theatre and Sansom has a prolific career spanning many years in the production of live and recorded music.
Dr Cameron van den Heuvel is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Sleep Research, University of South Australia. He holds B.Sc. and Honours degrees in Physiology and Pharmacology and a Ph.D. in Circadian Physiology from the University of Adelaide. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. van den Heuvel completed two years postdoctoral training in Circadian Physiology and Psychology with the prestigious Cornell Medical College in New York. Since returning to Australia, he has been the recipient of several large project grants to research various aspects of sleep, physiology and psychology in both adults and children. His research has been published widely in peer-reviewed journals, and is regularly presented at both national and international conferences. Dr van den Heuvel has also been involved in several consultancies and the preparation of reports concerning fatigue and shiftwork for several Australian and International companies.
Olivia Pallotta studied at the Flinders University of South Australia attaining her degree in Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical) and Bachelor of Science (Life Sciences). Since completing her degree in 2001 she has embarked in a career in Biomedical Engineering within the Research and Development section of the Flinders Medical Centre based in South Australia. Her work within the department has entailed electronic and mechanical design of medical and health related devices. Olivia has a patent for simulating haptic feedback with her work done on construction and development of an epidural injection simulator, which is currently under commercialisation with Flinders Technologies. She has been awarded the Fresh Scientist of 2002, by the British Council and Fresh Science and the Institution of Engineers Australia Young Biomedical Engineer of the Year for 2001.