Biometric Work That Heals, Educates, and Scales Globally
When your heartbeat becomes the story, extinction stops being abstract.
Sassy Tuna Studio's biometric installations connect a participant's real-time physiological data ; heart rate, breathing, motion ; to the ecological narratives of two species at the edge: the extinct Newfoundland wolf and the critically at-risk Atlantic wolffish.
Using a sensors and a custom-built software experience, Beta: The Sensory Wolf takes participants through an emotional arc built like a "lie detector" sequence; except what's being detected isn't deception, it's empathy. As the story unfolds, your own body becomes part of the artwork: your pulse quickens as the wolf's population collapses; your breath steadies as the story turns toward what could still be protected.
This isn't spectacle for its own sake. It's a tool for climate and conservation education, for public health and nervous-system awareness, and for community-based data collection; every session contributes to a growing dataset supporting Canada Council and Memorial University research on how embodied, biometric storytelling shapes ecological empathy.
Why it scales: The work travels light ; the physical installation is designed to pack down and move without freight shipping, and it's built to adapt to new species, new sites, and new audiences, from a gallery on Signal Hill to a residency in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand, to a future exhibition in Los Angeles.
