May 10 & 11 5pm-9pm
Spring Show 2005
721 Broadway
at Waverly Place
4th Floor
South Elevators
New York, NY 10003
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| Turf Dreams | ||
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| Author(s): | Alyssa Wright Lamar Hines |
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| Instructor: | Igoe, Tom | |
| Class: | Networked Objects | |
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| Documents: | boldFiber(JPEG) | |
| Keywords: | fiber optics, networks, dreams, grass | |
| Like a field of grass, Turf Dreams is a tactile platform for nighttime play and imagination. | ||
| Turf Dreams liberates fiber optics from the circus paraphernalia of basketball games and space age lighting. Thousands of optics are hand sewn to create a blank canvas, unique in expanse and texture. The ephemeral nature of the light, combined with the delicacy of the fibers, creates a space for intimacy. Technology becomes a vehicle for subtlety, softness, performance, play, and dreaming. The network becomes a conversation with others as well as with oneself. Abstract, tactile and open-ended Turf Dreams reminds us of the humane possibility of all things, even optic fibers. | ||
| Personal Statement: | Lamar Hines and Alyssa Wright are networked students who like to touch grass. | |
| User Scenario: | The physical interaction of Turf Dreams mimics stroking a field of grass, but adds a particular response to its otherwise soothing nonchalance.
In the idle state a series of colors pulse to illuminate the area of installation and attract users. As the user pets the fibers, the speed of the pulse dramatically increases. A visual dialog begins between installation and user. A Flash interface extends its possibilities, allowing users to impact the visuals of those experiencing the installation locally. | |
| Technical System Description: | Compositionally, Turf Dreams is a 20x20” panel of 16 pixels. Each pixel consists of a tuft of optics, an LED and a whisker switch.
Turf Dreams connects to a flash interface, and can be networked to other fiber optic walls. An idle state is choreographed from flash, and runs simultaneously on the fiber optics as well as on the computer screen. As viewers “pet” the wall, corresponding pixels pulse excitedly, and then fade back to its idle state. | |
| Project References, Research and Literature: | 1) Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune
http://www.caiguoqiang.com/ 2) Study of Light; Lite Brite http://projects.c505.com/projects/lite/index.html 3) Digital Grass http://www.tree-axis.com/krister/ucla/digital_grass/index.php?origin=25x768 | |