Aichen Lin
Michael Chladil
Ji Sun Lee
Project docs
Secret Tree pictures on flicker by Sun
Secret Tree pictures on flicker by Michael
Related links
Living Art class site
Press
TechTrek.Tv: E4: The Secret Tree
Project exhibitions
Maker Faire 2007
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.
material : cardboards, LEDs, ear-phones, Arduino, MAX/MSP
Prototyping documentaion on Flickr
material : cardboards, LEDs, speakers, audion amplifires, Arduino, MAX/MSP
MAX/MSP & Arduino code download : Secret Tree v1.zip(6.13kb)
Fabrication documentaion on Flickr
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Ji Sun Lee, Michael Chladil, Aichen Lin