Artistic creation and computer interactive multisensory simulation force feedback gesture transducers

International audienceThe team built up from 1976 with fundamental aims motivated by the computer entering in several fields of artistic creation. The deep mutation represented by the computer, regarding the technology history, required a new and fundamental analysis of the role of the material tools in artistic creation as well as the role of the computer itself as tool. New concepts and theories were necessary that cannot be simply deduced from the previous. The computer was then envisaged to introduce explicitly a new mediation level in the creation process, through the paradigm of the interactive and multisensory simulation (IMS) of physical objects. This principle and its correlated techniques are the core of the computer creation tool envisaged. The higher level functionality being built from this base