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Sonic Ripplz

Sonic Ripplz. An interactive installation. Why. It is exciting It is one of today's main art forms It eludes commerce Movement / interaction within a space Pushes boundaries of technology Can address all the senses Exploit my potential in a new area. What is it.

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Sonic Ripplz

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  1. Sonic Ripplz An interactive installation

  2. Why • It is exciting • It is one of today's main art forms • It eludes commerce • Movement / interaction within a space • Pushes boundaries of technology • Can address all the senses • Exploit my potential in a new area

  3. What is it • No definition that satisfies everyone • Involves audience acting on it • Responds to users activity • Contemporary interactive installations generally use computer technology in conjunction with sensors sound video and film etc. – a merging of art and technology

  4. How has it evolved ? • Marcel Duchamp / Readymades • Kinetic art • Laszlo Moholy-Nagy • Performance art / happenings • Ivan Sutherland • Myron Kreuger

  5. “These steps towards a collaboration between art and technology represent a positive trend. An artist who is alienated from technology cannot speak for a technological culture any more than a technologist who disdains aesthetics can design a humane technology”(Myron Kreuger)

  6. What to design • Something that encourages people to interact with each other • Something that responds to activity and encourages further exploration/activity • Something that is aesthetically pleasing • Something that is playful and stimulating • Something that captures spirit of what it is all about • Something I want to do

  7. Myron Kreuger

  8. “Jaap’s Solo”, a section of Messa di Voce.

  9. Ripples • Movement – water/space • Behaviour –laughter • Consequences –effect • Periodic variations in current

  10. Aura • Energy field • Surrounded by colour • Specific colours have specific meaning • Some colours are associated with musical notes • Migraine / epilepsy 23

  11. Synaesthesia How someone with synaesthesia might perceive (n.b., not 'see') certain letters and numbers.

  12. Purple Haze Chord E7#9 purple colour

  13. Design Content Aesthetic experience: • Ripples • Aura • Synesthesia • Sound • ------------------------------------------------------- Activity: • that involved interaction within the space through movement

  14. Ripples

  15. Type of floor • Sensor floor • Projected floor

  16. Interaction

  17. System Configuration • Intel P4 2.4 Gz 256Mb RAM • ATI9000Pro AGP Graphics Card • Matrox Meteor II Framegrabber • W2000, MSVS, OpenInventor, OpenGL, MIL-Lite.

  18. Possible applications • Multi – sensory applications • Children – play areas • Interactive gallery / museum experience

  19. Major concerns • I will need help technically • Will I need to build a floor surface • Will I get a darkened room • Will the room/space be high enough

  20. Schedule • Go like hell at everything !

  21. References • The Essential Writings of Marcel Duchamp by Michel Sanouillet and Elmer Peterson Oxford University Press • Documentary Monographs in Modern Art, Moholy-Nagy, by Richard Kostelanetz Praeger Publishers • Installation Art in the New Millennium by Nicolas De Oliveira, Nicola Oxley, and Michael Petry Thames and Hudson • The History of the Interface in Interactive Art by Soke Dinkla • The Ancient History of Installation Art by Bonita Ely • Installation Art from Wikipedia • An Outline Concerning Installation Art by Tiite • Using High-Bandwidth Input/Output in Interactive Art William G. Keays • Interactive Strategies and Dialogical Allegories by Ernestine Daubner • Interactive Art: Where Human Input Meets Artistic Creation by Kira Hammond • Synaesthesia from Wikipedia • Interface NYC on Myron Kreuger by Kevin Walker • Art in the Electronic Age by Margaret Lovejoy • a.parsons.edu/~cherdlick/thesis/dec_research.pdf • http://www.tmema.org/messa • Alessandro Valli / Natural Interaction / Pastworks • www.billkeays.com

  22. The End

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