“FingerWorld” by Claire Hentschker and Matt Sandler (2014)
Fingerworld is an immersive experience for the hand. As your fingers walk across the fabric, the world moves around them.
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Immersive Experience: “Tree, Interrupted” by Yeliz Karadayi, Amy Friedman, and Dan Russo
Tree, Interrupted from Yeliz Karadayi on Vimeo.
This tree invites people closer with a natural serenity and ambience, but explores a unique condition of human interaction. At close proximity, the curious nature of the tree invites tactility and intervention. However, upon intervention, the ambience becomes disrupted with loud connotations.
This project explores human intervention in a natural landscape and places it in a clear audible expression. Today’s world is dense with invasive interactions, creating a damaging atmosphere to natural and social ecologies. This project provides a reflection about the nature of sensory overload, specifically as it relates to human curiosity.
“Cell Phone Synthesizer” by Priya Ganadas, Epic Jefferson, and John Mars
Cell Phone Synthesizer is a multi-user collaborative piece designed to create music with phones. Participant’s mobile devices are tracked via camera, and their positions and screen colors are used to compose a immersive sound experience.
Immersive Experience: “Think Tank” by Rachel Ciavarella and John Brieger
Think Tank is about reflection. It strips down sensation and provides a carefully curated set of aural and visual stimuli. The ultimate goal is for participants to leave their current emotional and physical states and experience emotions based on priming words. We used several emotions from John Koenig’s project The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
For example, énoument:
n. the bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, where you can finally get the answers to how things turn out in the real world—who your baby sister would become, what your friends would end up doing, where your choices would lead you, exactly when you’d lose the people you took for granted—which is priceless intel that you instinctively want to share with anybody who hadn’t already made the journey, as if there was some part of you who had volunteered to stay behind, who was still stationed at a forgotten outpost somewhere in the past, still eagerly awaiting news from the front.
In the video above, we present Think Tank as a form of design fiction – in which global culture has done away with most sentiment. However, black market emotion tanks like ours still exist on the fringes of society, letting people experience complex emotions long forgotten by most.
“Tape Recorders” by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (2011)
“Tape Recorders” – MCA Sydney (2011) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.
Tape recorders extend or recoil based on the participants interactions.
Also maybe check out “This Years Midnight”
“Colors” by Cory Arcangel (2005)
“A 33-day-long version of Dennis Hopper’s 1988 film Colors.”
“Chainsaw” by Oscar Peters (2009)
Untitled from Oscar Peters on Vimeo.
This is simply a chainsaw activated by the participant. It inhabits the space both physically and aurally however in both cases eliciting fear from the user.
Also see Chopper and SugarStorm