BUMP: Seasons – Min Liu

I’m bumping Min Liu’s cycle 3 from last semester. I was drawn to this one because it seems as though this project gave the audience an experience of interacting with a digital reconstruction of a natural environment. I’m not sure I would do it in the same way, but this is the type of experience I’m hoping to create for my project. Having leaves fall in response to the participants’ movements (sensed by the Kinect) made for a responsive environment – and I think was a nice way to make the digital environment responsive without the aesthetic becoming too digital/non-natural. I’m hoping to brainstorm some ideas like this one – how can I use programming systems to manipulate imagery of the natural environment so it seems as though the environment is responding as opposed to a digital/technological system responding?