cycle two
Posted: May 1, 2024 Filed under: Final Project | Tags: Cycle 2 Leave a comment »I started my cycle 2 with exploring about the 3d rope actor. I was very curious about it, but didn’t get to delve into this in cycle 1, so I catch up with that. I began with this tutorial, which is really helpful.
The imagery of strings wildly dangling is really intriguing, echoing with the video imagery I had for cycle 1. To make it more engaging for the participant, I think of this way of using the eye++ actor to track the motion of multiple participant and let that affect the location of the strings.
Along with the sensors connected to Arduino from cycle one, I also made some touch sensors with the makeymakey alligator clip wires, foil, foam, and bubble wrap slices to give it a squeezy feeling. And I used some crocheted bubble wrapper, to wrap my Arduino & makeymakey kit inside, with the wires dangling out along the bubble wrap thin slices like the jellyfish’s tentacles – the intention is to give it a vibe like an amoeba creature.
I played with projection mapping and space set-up in the molab on Tuesday’s class, but need more time to mess around with it.
The observation and feedback from the audience is really helpful and interesting 🙂 I didn’t come up with a satisfying idea regarding instruction for audience. So I decide to let audience (two at a time) free explore in the space. I like how people got crawling to the ground, I notice that this bodily perspective is interesting for exploring this work; also love the feedback from Alex saying that it is interesting to notice the two people’s silhouette figuring out what is happening and the sound of murmuring; and I appreciating Alex pointing out the deliberate choice of having projector set in a corner, hidden and tilted. I am really interested in the idea of reimagining the optimal/normal functionality, and instead what I may call “tuning to the glitches” (by which I am not referring to the aesthetic of glitch, but a condition of unpredictable, instability, and “feral”)
Thinking along, I am relating to this mode of audiencing in this artist’s work:
https://artscenter.duke.edu/event/amendment-a-social-choreography-by-michael-klien
For the final cycle, i am going to:
– now that I have sensor and servo working, I am considering adding the number of it – “scale up” a little bit
– incorporate sound
– fine-tune webcam tracking
– play with the set design and projection mapping in molab
– continue wondering about modes of audience participation