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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Final Project : Concept Development

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.

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At the end of our session today, we ended up gazing at the stars.
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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.
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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
  • Immersive environment sound using stereo speakers

Challenges

  • Shooting star effect
posted by Michael at 9:16 pm  

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