Installations

This page contains some interactive installations I created as part of my studies.

Spatial and Narrative Memory

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People can more effectively remember things if they place them within the context of a space and/or narrative. This installation is an interactive game designed to make the player memorise faces using this mnemonic technique.

This installation was developed in C# using .NET Framework 3.5.

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Interactive Psychedelia (Psychedelia I)

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This installation provides a fun and mesmerizing way for people to entertain and express themselves. Overlapping circles of various sizes and bright colours are projected on to a wall. These shapes gently float down from the top of the wall continuously, producing a psychedelic display that is engaging yet soothing to watch.

However, more than just providing beautiful but unreactive visuals, through a video camera mounted at the top of the wall people in front of the screen can also interact with and change the display. Through bodily movement, individuals can displace the circles from their downward trajectories and send them careening off in different directions. Circles displaced in this manner leave brightly coloured trails behind them before disappearing off-screen. Through repeated movements in front of the screen, psychedelic shapes and patterns can be formed from the trails created by the circles. After a set period of time the trails themselves fade out to provide a blank slate so new patterns can be created, or so that the shapes will return to simply floating down from the top of the wall.

This installation was created using Max/MSP (cycling74.com/products/maxmspjitter).

Aural Psychedelia (Psychedelia II)

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This installation provides a colourful way of having fun and creating music ideally in a large and dark exhibition space. The sound of a brisk draft draws people into the cave-like interaction space, which features projected imagery on a screen. When they move into the space, the sound of rushing air subsides allowing them to interact with the screen through a camera mounted above it. Brightly coloured circles rain down from the top of the screen which the users can displace through bodily movements, to create mystical and alien musical notes which move through the space both aurally and visually, before fading out. Depending on the position and trajectory different musical notes are created allowing many different sounds. People who are not necessarily musically inclined will be be able to unleash their innate creativity in an entertaining way, and create their own alien soundtrack. When the users eventually leave the exhibition space, the sound of rushing air returns, ready to draw the next set of users in.

This installation was created using Max/MSP (cycling74.com/products/maxmspjitter).