Short video

Here is a really unedited video of my project, I'll need to go back and shoot new footage now that I know what I need

BFA is Finished!

Here's the finished product of my BFA show piece:

video will be uploaded later.

10-30 Pictures and Mics

Today I took new pictures of the books that will be falling in the game with the 'Book of Knowledge' books that will be my arrow keys. I also checked out a Zoom Mic to take sound bites for when the user catches the books.

10-28 Presentation Day

Today my group presented on everything that we had completed since the last time we met. I have my bookshelf, the books for my arrow keys, and new pictures for the code. Along with a user book counter and displaying fact on the screen.

New Concept (Woo!) 9/25/13

Concept
Same basis, interactive using the Makey Makey to control a game. But now ... BOOKS!! The concept of consuming knowledge and that knowledge is power and to have a broad scope of knowledge. I want to have a bookcase with shelves of books to be my interactive object.

The picture shows a bookshelf with a space for a monitor and four books that are different colors. The game play is to have a character at the bottom of the screen and try to catch books(knowledge) and after after catching so many books a display comes up with a random fact and asks if the user wants to continue. The two books on either side of the monitor will be used to control back and forth motion and the bottom two controllers will deal with starting the game, ending it and continuing forward.

The bookshelf should convey a certain ambiance with the books most of the shelves but some of the shelves will have tchotchkes on it. I want it to convey a diverse range of interests, and books that can change a persons perception of things, like history to a random facts book, the fiction book Handmaiden's Tale, the Bible, and Human Anatomy. Books that offer a glimpse into a different perspective or way of thinking.

9/16 and 9/17 Progress

Yesterday I experimented with some glass shapes, both clear (bottom left) and color (bottom right) I had made and how they interacted with a projection.

Today I got my Makey Makey in the mail!!!! I will be experimenting with this tonight.

The Contract- 9/11/13

I will be working on an interactive installation for my BFA project. It will include glass spherical shapes to touch and interact with the audience. The interactions that will occur through different variations of the glass spheres being touched will be changes in lighting, sound, and projected html5 <canvas> moving particles.

The concept of my piece is for the viewer who interacts with my piece to experience movement, and in essence ‘dance’ in front of other people and have it be a fun experience because they are paying more attention to the art piece that the outside viewers of the piece. The theme would address how most people do not like to make a spectacle of themselves and how some people do not like to dance in public or at all but that everyone has the ability to dance even if they do not believe they do.

How the interactive piece will be set up will facilitate the movement of the participant by having them touch different parts of the installation which will be located at different heights and in a semicircle around where the main users interaction will occur. Each of the glass spheres of the installation will control different reactions from the piece, some will change the lighting, some will affect the sound, and others the visually projected moving particles. This will also help give the suggestion of a dance setting with music and flashing lights.

The final format of this piece will be an installation that will probably need close to the 12 square feet, I want a 3.5ft space where the user will stand and have a semicircle of glass spheres hanging from three different heights and layers from the ceiling and three different heights and layers coming out of the floor as well. Around 23 glass sphere would be hanging from the ceiling and 15 attached to the floor. There will also be a projection down onto the floor. These glass spheres will be what controls the lights and sounds and projection objects that will move around.

The equipment I will need during production will be a MakeyMakey, LEDs, a projector, and a computer for testing. I will also need the glass blowing studio. In the display I will need a projector that is small and could be hung from the ceiling, the MakeyMakey, a computer to run the program (maybe a Raspberry Pi), speakers, the glass spheres, securely attached to the floor and ceiling, or on a frame.