Michael Fox
Contract
Contract
BFA Exhibition 2013
The piece I
will create this semester will encompass everything I have learned throughout
my art career thus far. It will
represent where I am as an artist and will hopefully lead me into further
development of my technical skill and conceptual ability. I have become obsessed with interactive art,
it entrances me unlike any other genre/type of art and so I hope to create that
same obsession in others this semester.
It will be one installation and I will make it as large scale as I can
afford and am allowed.
I would
like my BFA Exhibition to be a text on parallel worlds. Throughout history many
people have believed in multiple worlds, worlds that we cannot not see or
interact with but yet they exist and sometimes they affect our lives. I would like to bring this topic into the
mind of the user and make them question how and when in their own lives they
may have been affected by forces outside of what we can perceive.
The piece
will use a grid of LED’s to create a blanket over the
user. It will represent the barrier of
worlds. When the LED’s
move vertically it will appear as though something is pushing them towards the
viewer from the other side. On the floor
will be mirrors to reflect the image of the LED ceiling. They will also make the space seem larger to
the viewer. The mirrors on the floor
will represent another barrier of worlds.
The final
format will be a 12 x 8 foot LED installation 14 to 8 feet off the ground. An aluminum frame will hold all the motors
and circuitry and will also support the LED’s and their wires. The computer and microcontroller for
processing will be near the nearest outlet and wires will be cable-tied/taped
to nearby poles/walls/floors for ideal cable management.
List of Equipment needed:
-Drill Press
-Hand Drill
-Hack Saw
-Soldering Iron
-Electrical Tape
-Wire
Cutters/Strippers
-Stainless Steel
Hanging Wire
-Power Supply
(voltage and amp currently unknown)
-Arduino Mega
-Kinect (ordered)
Comments from small group crit #1:
ReplyDeleteshowed concept drawing and sample motor controlled via Kinect. using Processing; consider sound (maybe Cory Kaspryk would be interested in contributing). go to the fabric store and begin testing elasticity of fabrics - you may need to either PUSH or PULL with the motor; experiment with different reflective surfaces for the ground.
would pushing on the fabric be better than pulling? test the fabrics and tension of the fabric. find out how much torque he needs for the pushing/pulling and the impact that will take on the sounds in the gallery. use silver adhered to mylar? or plexi? is kinect working to identify unique points in the camera location? test this code immediately by having a simple and unique ‘hello world’ come up when you walk into a specific space in the environment.
Progress: A-, Concept: A