Posts tagged ‘sensors’
DANDELION LIGHT
The "Secret Of Light" lamp responds to your breath mimicking the delicate flower of the dandelion weed. Where you blow on it the yellow lights gently fade. Turn it on by gently shaking it.
It was created by designers Qin Xue, Cao iXiaoxiao & Wei Hangshuai.
BREATH SCARF
Hilary Hayes’ ‘The Breathe Project’ reminds us to focus on the delicacy of life by lighting up each and every time you breathe.
BREATHE TABLE
It senses each person's breathing via a newly designed breath sensor, a make micro-controller and netConnect software.
The table acts not only as a display but also as the source of light in an otherwise dark room, so you can see yourself in the light of your collective breathing.
VISUAL MELODIES
Last night I met a great bunch of women at the first gathering of the UTS Community of Scholars for 2010. The group gets together monthly to present where they are up to in their doctoral research projects.
Natalya Godbold’s project about sense making in online discussion forums for those affected by renal failure was really fascinating particularly as it is introducing an innovative methodology to the area of health communication.
Amy Chen’s Visual Melodies is a DCA project which produces an interactive art installation in hospitals to help relieve the stress of patients. I was super eager to learn about how the interactivity is enabled - phidget sensors and active script Flash programming make the ferns grow in the forest scene. Amy has had to hand code the active script herself - she reckons she’s the first to use it with motion sensors in this way. She gave up on using Max/msp+jitter because the colours lost saturation when she brought her video files across.
BODY NAVIGATION
Body Navigation (8 min. trailer) from ole kristensen on Vimeo.
Body navigation is a reactive floor-projection where dancers can dance on together with a digital reproduction of themselves. It consist of a camera tracking the dancers on the floor, and a projector that creates a image on the floor around and on the dancers. With this system connections and visual images about human relations and emotions are created that where not otherwise possible. Jonas Jongejan, from Copenhagen, developed the application which uses Processing.
Spectre - “endocrine art”
The building of the stairs constitutes a significant component of the total impression of the work, on both visual and kinesthetic levels. The design is quite particular as is the embodied experience of the climbing. As with much of my work, the aesthetic manipulation of the users subjective sense of embodiment is central, The play of vertigo, and the associated adrenalin, the lying in a vulnerable position on a dark space, the head hole, like a stocks or a guillotine, all intentionally move the user out of a complacent quasi-objective art viewing mode into a complicit bodily engagement. This is not unlike the interrogation/torture techniques currently condoned by the US military. The play of adrenaline and endorphins in the user is a crucial part of the work.