Sensor-Based Electronic Art

Final Process

I thought that we got a lot of good feedback during our crit, I like the idea of making this tunnel like way of viewing the piece with fabric so that your view is more directed. When we were making the designs for the outside of the box for the laser cutter we went back and forth on what to do for a design, originally we thought about making some kind of diamond design then settled on the quote, we thought it directly related with what was going on, we had no need to beat around the bush. I do like the idea about putting on the inside though when you open the lid. And I will never note our troubles before crit again! It was really bothersome to us after putting all the sides together that they were cracking because the clay was horrible, but we did spray a sealer over the other sides that made it stay better then the one side. I kind of liked how people saw it as this sort of galaxy type experience with the lights and how they showed through the gems. It adds this layer of intrigue to the viewer as they approach and open the box. We kept the sound on as a way to have people want to open the jewelry box to see what or why sound was coming from inside. It was larger then normal to complete this idea of over consumption and need of peoples desires.

Concept Ideation

Here were some of our train of thoughts during the process of our piece:

performative lends itself to interactive

dance is a traditional old art, that we mixed with this new art.

active v passive

footsteps are leading with my example, not the music

you can never repeat the same steps twice or get the same tones

you always add you own spin on dance, dance is very fluid

reminiscent of art in general, adding their own thing to already done things. Especially in tech art, where your using open source things.

Reverses the dance process by having the "dance" come first instead of the music.Therefore the music becomes the art and defines art versus science cause art can never truly be replicated. Specifically, in technology art where artists are using open source codes

We found ourselves very interested in dance and this idea of creating music using computer, which start when we found the laser harp piece. What drew me into that piece was the fact that possibly one's whole body could make music if they wanted too. This possibility really got me excited.

Pre final Set up

So here are some photos of our final set up before the critique.

Building the box

So Alisyn and I spent the better part of last Thursday making our five foot long box. It was definitely not something in our comfort zone. It took us pretty much four hours to make this thing. But I think it turned out well and was completely useful and will be in the future.

Then on Friday we painted this box. Which really wasnt all that bad. I always hear professors say Buick something but never actually do it cause it seems something out of my league. But I'm glad we went ahead and did this.