Poster & Concept Board

Poster 

Poster for my final exhibition. I choose French words because based on my experience, the feeling when you listening to french songs while paint is different than you listen to other language songs. It affect my feeling and mood too while listening to it even it hard to understand the meaning. 

 Concept Board

The concept board for my final exhibition

Digital Prototype

3D View 

 For the Digital Prototype(3D) , I use Sketchup as my tool to make it. I show a few shot from different angle to show how the installation/audience will look on exhibition day later. 

From Top(Side) View

From Side View

Technical Requirement

Technical Requirement

After a few research, I have decided the software I'll use for my final project soon. But one of the software I still doubt to use it since it can use only using Mac. I will try to find out the software like MSP/Max but can use in Windows.

Processing

Programming language; use for watercolor visualisation.

Arduino

Tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer.

Kinect

It measures the average depth of the spandex from the frame it is mounted on.Nothing will happen if you do not touch the screen.

Max/MSP (option)

Max allows the music to speed up and slowdown and get louder and softer, based on the depth, but this software is the last option since it create special for Mac not for Window.

Material

 Elastic Screen Material ;
Spandex Screen

Design Approach ( Sketch)

Sketch 1

My first idea is about raining room, so I try to make a simple sketch how it might look.

 

Sketch 2

Second Idea is Watercolor Visualisation.  When people touch the screen, the visual will appear on the screen like raining drop.

Final Sketch 

This is my final sketch. The screen is using elastic material screen and when audience touch the screen, the visual will follow the hand movement .

Review , Analysis & Precedence Studies

Firewall by Mike Allison and Aaron Sherwood

Material : A stretched sheet of spandex
Software :  Processing, Max/MSP, Arduino and a Kinect.

- An interactive media installation created in collaboration with Mike Allison.
A stretched sheet of spandex acts as a membrane interface sensitive to depth
 that people can push into and create fire-like visuals and expressively play
music.

- When someone presses into it the visuals react around where the person 

presses, and the music is triggered.

- I like the idea, when audience touch the screen, the fire will appear

on the spandex screen. 

Link : http://aaron-sherwood.com/blog/?p=558

Kinetic Rain by Art+ Com at Changi Airport ( Singapore)

Kinetic Rain follows a 15-minute computationally designed choreography 

where the two parts move together in unison, sometimes mirroring, some

times complementing, and sometimes responding to each other.

Several spotlight sources mounted below the installation create a play of 

shadows on the terminal’s ceiling as they illuminate the movement of the 

rain droplets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhP9n6WvVfQ

Rain Room by rAndom International at The Curve, Barbican Centre,London

This installation is the largest and most ambitious installation yet,Rain Room

is 100 square metre field of falling water for visitors to walk through and

experience how it might feel to control the rain. On entering,visitor hears 

the sound of water and feel moisture in the air and movement. For me,it is

interesting and attractive because it is a new experience for the audience to

walk through rain without getting wet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cem71cR0S0

Muti Randolph's interactive light installation

 Deep Screen at The Creators Project New York Event6,000 Bulbs React To Your Movement

“My work is always trying to get people inside my head, inside the things I create.

 When you are in front of a 2D monitor, that usual experience of watching TV or 

going to the movies, you end up imagining you are inside the movie… But with 

this stuff here, you are literally inside the action.”

I like the way he use the bulbs as a main object to attract people and how the lights follow audience’s movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gW9zwK8Ydk

Ideation and Concept

Ideas

(1) Watercolor Rain Room

Using the idea of raining watercolour, these rain will fall in the room where audience will need to walk through these rain and experience
the raining environment. Once they step in the room, audience will hear the sound of rain droplets thus discovering thousands of falling
watercolour droplets that responds to their movement. Thus audience actually gets to experience rain without getting wet.

(2) Watercolor Visual

Using the concept of computer generated visualisation image on an interactive screen, there will be watercolour droplets emerging from

the screen interactively with audience’s movements when audience touch the screen.

Concept

Water

Water is a transparent fluid which forms the world's streams, lakes, oceans and rain, and is the main constituent of the fluids of living things.

Color

The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.

Watercolor 

The paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle. 

Aim and objective

Aim and objective

The objective of this project is that I wanted to study the behavior and perspective of the individuals that come in touch or interact with the installation while listening to some certain music as the background sound.

Basically, my aim towards this project is to relive the childhood memories while audience interact with the installation(watercolor visual)