The Final project for Living Art will adhere to the following process:
Concept Development
Prototype
Build
Refine
Present
Earlier this week, Ji-Sun Lee and Youjeong Paik approached me about collaborating on the final project. I was still on the fence about whether to try combining my Audio Art final with this final.
Ji-Sun, Youjeong, and I brainstormed plant-like ideas yesterday. Today, So-Young joined us for a bit. We played around with a number of ideas.
At the end of our session today, we ended up gazing at the stars.
What: Make a Wish
“Make a Wish” is an immersive environment that offers the participant an opportunity to gaze into the night sky and make a wish on a falling star.
Why
Ji-Sun and Youjeong visited an exhibition recently of an artist who uses mirrors to create infinite interior spaces. We want to explore this idea further using realism rather than surrealism.
This project shares some common themes with our Secret Tree project: the need to express certain interior realities privately and private public spaces.
How
Fiber optic strands will be used to simulate stars in the night sky
Stars to be dimmed using AD5206 digital potentiometers
Shlomit and I made some progress on our audio art final. We decided to build a sonic field of springs.
Strategies for sensing movement:
Flex sensor
Magnetic pickup (like electric guitar)
2-axis potentiometer (joystick)
After brainstorming more about producing sound and sensing movement, we built a tiny prototype, using the technique I discovered while building a prototype for Designing for Constraints.
Summary:
The Secret Tree listens, interprets and stores people’s secrets in its leaves or fruits with a unique format.
Idea:
Interactive sound installation which invites participants to confess their secrets. As people speak their secrets into a large knothole in the center of the to the tree it “grows” with blooming flowers and whispering fruits.
Materials:
6′ tall cardboard tree with LED lighting and miniature speakers
Inspiration: The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein In the Mood for Love – Wong Kar Wai
Team:
Michael Chladil
Jee-Sun Lee
Ai-Chen Lin
My Role:
- Arduino microcontroller code
- MAX/MSP Programming
- Prototype circuit design and fabrication
- Basic woodworking
I’m working on a personal art project for my final in Designing for Constraints. The following is my first prototype. I feel pulled in many directions simultaneously — with ITP pulling the hardest. The inner sphere represents me. The springs tug at me in all directions.
I developed this prototype from a simple sketch:
I built the prototype out of materials I already had in my studio:
CD jewel case covers
Old guitar strings and 24 gauge wire spun into springs
26 gauge wire wrapped around a still central armature
Class feedback:
- Walls of the piece could deform under pressure.
- Piece seems performative — it may require my performance of the object to get its point across. A video might help with this.
- Stretch the box to its limits and videotape it as it breaks
