After much brainstorming and team collaboration, James, Lucy Sophie, Vinny and myself came up with "Second Irishood". Our installation, featured a screen which projected a videos of Irish dancing that we edited which would be controlled by user input through glowsticks detected by a web cam. The idea was for user to stand in front of the screen, moved the glowsticks and their bodies to the music and for the screen to react with them. We wanted to make the installation engaging and encourage movement.
I learned ALOT from the experience! I've seen installations in galleries and museums before and they look so simple to do...but it was tough! There is soooo many elements involved, there is the ideas process, the making of it, making sure it works, putting it together, putting the various files from different programmes together, seeing if it works,organisation of roles and meetings, the heavy labour of setting it up and taking it down, discussing your project with visitors, documenting comments etc....I could go on....
In the end round our proposed interaction with the screen failed! We had the long complicated ActionScript done (with the help of other classmates) and we late the night before were going to make a simple change to a video and import it back in...the Flash file then failed to work again and no one knew why...so we had to find a plan B
But that actually didn't work out too bad. The people who visited on the open day seemed to like it and seemed to believe that with the glowsticks they were in fact interacting with the .swf we put up!
I found the overall experience very rewarding and I am looking forward to out next projection on 14th April '10 where we will be projecting onto the front of Plassey House!
G x
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