Brainstorm

Open Source - Projects 

we wanted to create experiences for the users of our work , enabling them to have a personalized interaction with the technology. 

The idea of personalize: 

essentially it is not to create the a merely physical interaction with the work , but rather, having a work that appeals to the persona of the individual. Connecting with the emotional and visual elements of communication. 

Project 1 - A art installation using the Arduino. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai7etkM9yD0

Inspired from this installation , the work will be a combination of using the narrative devices of story telling in the personalization of the Led lights to the sound scape of the work. Essentially the Led's become "characters" to a storyline and the combine to become a work that essentially appeals to the viewer on an emotional level. 

Construction of the Human Heart

Inspired from the Ross Muller play , the work essentially is a LED heart in a box with a viewing hole. The heart will come to life slowly with the synchronized programming of either the sound scape or narrative. But when the heart is fully it merely exists for a few seconds and disappears into darkness again. The use of the arduino, is our attempt in instigating poetry into using the open source technology of the arduino. 

Several examples of work done are bellow: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn_hxGk-6LA

Project 2 - 

A Social interaction Exhibition

Walking through the photos exhibition with the tablet on hand, may sound like a better idea than flipping through the book trying to find the artist ‘s art piece. The audience can use the tablet and scan the photos on the wall and will bring them into the cyber realm of the biographies of the artist works and the artists themselves as shown in the picture below. It saves the hassle of walking from one end to the written Biography note pasted at another end of the wall and going back to refer at it again. This idea helps to build a more interactive space between the artist and audience viewing the photos.

Project 3 - Shopaholic

To build an interactive electronic shopping guide to provide mall maps and real-time offers from specific shops when you enter any shopping mall.

The application can be downloaded online or when you enter a mall. The mall will let you choose if you want to download the application. This application will include the detailed layout of the mall, just like the static mall directory, and real-time offers