Sasha Pas is an artist and theatre producer, and co-founder of Playtronica. Pas artistic research focuses on haptics and biofeedback in conjunction with interactive sound and music environments. Experiences created in a playful museum context as a performance or installation where audience is always involved as an active element in exploring their own bodily potential.

Playtronica is a creative technology studio that develops toolkits to bring interactivity to the everyday world. It uses the conductive properties of objects to detect human touch and turn it into sound. Playronica has developed TouchMe, a MIDI controller that can be used in music, education, artistic practice, therapy and human perception research.

Pas will discuss the role of touch and cross-modal  experiences through the overview of Playtronica projects and collaborations in art, education, theatre, therapy and cognitive science. Presenting Playtronica community and its contributors of a wide range of musicians, developers, and educators, all with the ambition to break new ground for sensory experiences and culture.