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Terrain 29

Project Summary

Project Summary

Project Summary

One night, when offhandedly spinning my friend's rotating paper globe, I felt a calling to upgrade this obsolete office item into a real-time A/V controller. While developing the code, I began video recording distinct moments in my life that I could trigger with the gyroscope and accelerometer data.


Inspired by the PC game MYST, I framed environments from a first-person perspective to transport the viewer into the scene and allow them to follow my grief, contemplation, and joy. Using the audio collected from each scene, I created a patch in Max MSP to chop, diverge, and overlap the moments into a sonic experience. When the globe spins, the audio and video briefly decouple and then converge when stopped.

Design

Design

Design

I created an interactive installation that pulls the ethereal forces of life and death down to earth. There are two intersecting components:

1. A film made up of 20 minute-long videos that I captured over a few months. (i.e. taking a boat to spread my grandma's ashes, celebrating my sister's bachelorette party, and observing a relaxed coyote in Griffith Park.)


2. A rotating office globe nestled in some grass, dirt, and stones that, when spun, traverses these moments and outputs manipulated and mangled audio transmissions.
I created an interactive installation that pulls the ethereal forces of life and death down to earth. There are two intersecting components:

1. A film made up of 20 minute-long videos that I captured over a few months. (i.e. taking a boat to spread my grandma's ashes, celebrating my sister's bachelorette party, and observing a relaxed coyote in Griffith Park.)


2. A rotating office globe nestled in some grass, dirt, and stones that, when spun, traverses these moments and outputs manipulated and mangled audio transmissions.
I created an interactive installation that pulls the ethereal forces of life and death down to earth. There are two intersecting components:

1. A film made up of 20 minute-long videos that I captured over a few months. (i.e. taking a boat to spread my grandma's ashes, celebrating my sister's bachelorette party, and observing a relaxed coyote in Griffith Park.)


2. A rotating office globe nestled in some grass, dirt, and stones that, when spun, traverses these moments and outputs manipulated and mangled audio transmissions.