The Lightstick is a row of 60 addressable RGB LED lights controlled by a small computer.
Designed to be portable and battery powered, images and generative art can be loaded into it and be ‘painted’ anywhere using long-exposure photography.
It is currently being used to produce my ongoing “What’s In It For Me?” project, and other interventions.
The Focus Lamp was a small device I designed for myself to help with studying and writing during my MSc in Interactive Media.
It was the result of an excercise in product design and User Centred Design. It also reflected my interest in Calm Design and technology.
I wanted something with no obvious interface and no noise that would disturb me from work. Instead the lamp would sense which way it was turned or placed on the table and use gently changing colours to alert the user.
When flipped, it would change to a soft green colour. After 45 minutes had elapsed, it would slowly change colour to let the user know that they could take a break. When you wanted to take the break the user would flip the lamp again and the sequence would run again for 15 minutes.
Voyager is an experiment with face detection technology and a tribute to the Voyager I & II spacecraft which have moved through our solar system since the 1970s.
A camera monitors how many people are looking at the exhibit and refuses to interact until there is only one person viewing. This forces the participant to be alone with the piece and also encourages participants to ask others to leave.
What the participant is rewarded with is an intimate meditative orbit of random planets with the accompanying otherworldly sound of its electromagnetic aura.
If you look away, it notices…
Audio is sourced from NASA’s space sounds library.
[Tech: OpenFrameworks]