A Documentation Blog for Interaction Lab
Project Description This project is a physicalization of neural network and neural impulsion. It is basically built based on a metal cube frame, two 15m red El wires, and 6 solenoids. I am a fan of giving material a sense of “alive”, so I made simple, subtle, and random movement just like they are alive. … Continue reading Kinetic Light: Project3 – Glitch
For assignment5, we made a pixel style wave using multiple acrylic board and linear actuators. We strung the same rectangular acrylic boards together with two long rubber bands. Then, we made the linear actuators to move up and down alternatively to create this wave-like style movement. Initially, we wanted to make all the … Continue reading Week5: Wave
Cam – Can you Kill the Mosquito Crank — The Myth of Sisyphus Gear – Running Jerry This assignment, we tried to come up with some interesting theme and make the mechanism based on the given karakuri blue print. When I was making the Sisyphus using crank. Initially, since the body and … Continue reading Assignment4: Karakuri
Machine Art was symbolizing the advanced tech development and modern era, always relating to Constructivism and Futurism. People appreciate the beauty, strength and energy of the machine. But then the term Machine Art evolved — people started appreciating the machine made product withought considering its practical use, but only considering the aesthetic appearance. As Machine … Continue reading Reading Reflection2: Machine Art & Kinetic Art
Project Description This project is a picture of Chinese Apsaras embroidered on canvas with El wires. With programming to make it light up/fade, it creates a short light performance when connecting with power. Light wires are often associated with hardcore and emerging techonology. However, I was thinking of the possibilities of combining of light and … Continue reading Kinetic Light: Project2 – Apsaras
In this assignment, we used 3 DMX PAR lights to create a light composition. Since our light is not able to move, and we have 3 of them, we thought of making a composition simply playing with placing lights in different positions in the space. Then we thought of the traditional Chinese sundial, where … Continue reading Assignment3: Sundial
In this project, we first wanna try to explore with the possibility of light as a camera following a certain item. Thus, we made a night view of a city with colored filter paper and acrylic board. The lesson we learnt from this was that the when the light gets near the object, the shadow … Continue reading Assignment2: City Night & Illuminated Squares
In this assignment, I refreshed my memory with Arduino programming, figured out how “millis()” and “delay()” work differently. (Which is something I wasn’t able to figure out in Interlab) We explored how to make better use of forloop(forloop net) in light programing and how to write a timer for different sections. After 3 semesters of … Continue reading Weekly Assignment 1: Feel My Menstrual Cycle
Light in essence is another form of paints, objects(media) are paint brushes in different shapes, and similarly, the space is another form of canvas. With the same paints(light), different shape of paint brushes(objects/materials) can modify the pattern on the canvas(space). In Light as Sculpture, Moholy’s feeling was: “Light, if rendered into art, must first be … Continue reading Reading Reflection 1: Light and Space
Project Description This project is about “Sense Interference”, aiming to distort human “equilibrioception” via sight. Speaking of this project specifically, when the user concentrates on a spinning spiral while they are walking, they cannot help themselves leaning to one direction(left || right) even if they are trying to walk straight, and left or right depends … Continue reading Kinetic Light: Project1 – Keep Spinning!