ITP Spring Show 2007
Tuesday, May 8, 5-9 pm
Wednesday, May 9, 5-9 pm
A festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP
Secret Tree

Ji-Sun Lee, Michael Chladil, Ai-Chen Lin

Secret Tree listens, interprets and stores people's secrets in its leaves or fruits with a unique format.

http://itp.nyu.edu/~jsl398/tree/

Installed_Tree
Description
When people speak into the "Secret Tree" and confess their secrets, this will provoke the the tree to grow, the flowers to bloom and the fruits to appear and ripen. In the book "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein and the movie "In the Mood for Love" by director Wong Kar Wai, the main characters confess their secrets to a tree because it will keep them stored as long as the tree stays alive and never tells their secrets to other people.

The "Secret Tree" transcends this idea because it listens, interprets and stores people's secrets in its leaves or fruits with a unique format. After their secret is stored, other people will be able to listen to these secrets through speakers in the fruit in a unique and altered format.
Classes
Living Art
Keywords
physical computing, sound
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