Thesis Week 01: Thesis support group
I. Camille Utterback
Potent Objects is a series of interactive objects that questions simplistic tropes of interaction while referencing the deeper emotional states implied by the physical grammar of interactivity. The objects explore our social anxiety about machines that can feel or emote, and our complex feelings about interacting with these machines. Are our machines becoming more like us as they learn to sense more about our actions, or are we becoming more like them as we tailor our actions to their limited sensing abilities?
II. Pablo Valbuena
This project is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation.
Extra: eyeDrums (pre thesis prototype?)
For the “Antique from the Future” project I decided to modify a musical instrument and make it react, via video projection, to the user playing it. I chose to use a set of Synsonic drums from the early 80’s that I bought two years ago. The main idea behind the eyeDrums is very simple- when you hit the drums something happens to the footage in the video projection. In this case they are eyes projected over each drum. So when you hit a drum, the particular eye projected over that drum will close. By giving eyes to the instrument I wanted to convey the sense that the instrument is a live organism that reacts to the user interacting with it.
