Shock Sculpture

Performance Studies, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU Inc 1991

Project Description: I worked with a team to build a sculpture that would also serve as an evolving hypertext document about Italian Futurist theory.  The sculpture was built from wooden balls for nodes and metal rods for connections.  Each node had a bar code which, when scanned, would trigger the appropriate text on a computer screen.  In addition there was a bin of nodes and rods for a user to add to the sculpture.  They could write a comment, print a bar code and add it to the sculpture.

I collaborated with Kate Swann (future wife) and Steve Marino.

Technical Notes:  I wrote this in HyperCard with a serial XCMD to connect to the bar code scanner.