Situated Encounters - Dave Lynch

Embodied Systems

These projects explore how bodily signals shape attention, agency, and behaviour in real time. Physiological data is encountered through experience rather than optimisation or control. The work stays open to ethical tension and uncertainty. Meaning develops as participants feel how influence operates through bodies, feedback, and shared conditions.

Live Experiments

Live experiments are situations where performance, participation, and systems unfold together in real time. They create temporary systems shaped by presence, attention, and response, allowing ideas to be tested in motion. Rather than presenting outcomes, the work stays open to uncertainty. Meaning emerges as people move from observing a system to becoming part of it.

Touching Sleep

Touching Sleep creates shared encounters with personal sleep data, treating sleep as a lived, uneven condition rather than a neutral metric. The work brings bodies, care, and vulnerability into contact through collective experience. Instead of extracting insight, the project holds data relationally. Meaning emerges through attention and responsibility, as participants recognise sleep as something shaped by social, material, and emotional conditions.

Areoecology

This work operates within the emerging field of aeroecology, using weather radar and atmospheric sensing to understand insect movement and landscape-scale ecological change. It works with existing infrastructures and environmental institutions, translating live data into shared visual language that can be used in practice. Rather than producing fixed conclusions, the work supports ongoing interpretation and decision-making. Meaning develops through use, as ecological signals move between atmosphere, landscape, and action.

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Embodied Systems

Live Experiments

Touching Sleep

Areoecology