Just for a public record I wanted to post some writing about this project I made initially because I feel it still is holds true to my direction with this project, and might not have been seen yet. Also below is an image of an artist statement I finished last week. The first artist statement I am actually happy with.
Object & Machine: a Relational Performance
“Object”- Has a natural reaction. Has many natural states.
“Machine”- Performs actions or verbs on the object(s). Has many calculated states.
“Happenings” – Happenings take place anywhere, and are often multi-disciplinary, with nonlinear narrative and the active participation of the audience.
“Coincidence” – correspondence in nature or in time of occurrence.
At some point this blog post became list formatted, so we are just gonna roll with it.
Here is my progress so far:
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I experimented. A lot. I think I’ve tried almost all the chemicals in the print shop, plus the basic assortment of rubbing alcohol normal alcohols, bleaches and other cleaning things. 90% of the things did absolutely nothing to the ink on the page.
This project is based off of current and past research that vibration can be used as an educational device for the deaf. I have used resources that have focused on wearable computer platforms, but have also looked at platforms that are Non-wearable, and serve more as an Educational object. By incorporating other senses like movement via projections, and light I hope to make something that is useable to children and adults.
So! This is the second milestone of my still unnamed project. Maybe I should name it! I’ll consider that while writing.
So!!! Last time I was like THE HELL DO I DO WITH THESE SENSORS AND CAMERAS, and the answer was discovered to be STUFF. So now I did some stuff I guess.
First, Ali helped me set up a camera helmet combo, which is very fun. I am like an Angler Fish. Pictureeeeeee:
It is pretty exciting! I also used some clothesline I had lying around to attach it to my face better. This has the wonderful side effect of choking the wearer. Besides that it’s pretty comfortable, though.
What else happened? I played with a Raspberry Pi some. I don’t have any pictures of that, because I haven’t really gotten anywhere yet. But yeah, I might end up porting things to PD and putting it on that? That would be splendid. I guess that is happening next a little bit.
I made a little video to show what it looks like in Max right now. Uh.