Project Title: Integrated Art
Project Statement or Purpose:
The basic idea of our project is to explore if there are really some possibilities that we can make up some ways to integrate different kinds of art. This was inspired by the old common saying that “all arts are bound together”. In reality, we know that people may have different talents in some specific areas, and it may be hard for everyone to be Davinci, an expert in almost all areas. For instance, for a professional dancer, the drawing may be hard. Therefore, we want to use this opportunity to explore some ways for artists in one aspect to make another art piece in another field at the same time.
Project Plan:
Just as the name says, we may create an art space for players to be part of the performance. When they are performing, they may simply create different sounds and move around. There will be an LED screen put behind where they stand. When they move around, the end of the pen will move synchronized with the person, and the tone of the sound will determine the color of the pen. Finally, we want to create this art place to be a stage for performers to draw paintings while dancing and singing.
Here is the schedule of our project:
Dec.1st – Finish the Processing and Arduino code about how to detect a sound tone and map the sensorValue to a specific color. Determine how the final art space will be like.
Dec.3rd – Decide if there are any devices needed, if available, borrow them, if not, seek the professor’s help and maybe buy some.
Dec.5th – Find out how to detect a person’s movement through the external camera, and map the value to a certain position on the screen.
Dec.6th – Try to connect the devices to the finished code, try if those work.
Dec.7-9th – Debug and further develop.
Context and Significance:
Although the main idea and inspiration of this project which Wendy and I are going to focus on mainly stem from my own opinions and thoughts, we did integrate many interesting ideas we thought of together and some research that we have done together. For example, if time is enough, we may create modes other than drawing while dancing and singing for the players, instead, we may add some modes like making music with computers by giving instructions and interaction through dancing or painting. This is the result of combining the other proposal about making pieces of music by putting letters into the specific box, which was inspired by many projects we searched online.
In terms of the interaction, I think this final project that we are going to create aligns with my definition well. In my definition posted early this semester, I put great emphasis on the necessity of computer interaction back with players’ interaction and that this interaction can and should be continuous. This final project that we are going to create does meet the requirements, since this will be a performance stage which will give the audience an immersive performing and creating the experience, and the feedback the device gives out will be continuous.