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Project Introduction

​Before I begin posting weekly updates here, I want to introduce my current project that I am working on.

I guess I always knew that I would try to be an artist again. I spent all my high school years making art almost constantly, and when I got to university, a lot of that changed. I started to learn about different types of design and the ways that people can interact with technology. Now, with four months on my hands where I am not in school, I decided to return as an artist, equipped with my new (and albeit limited) knowledge.

I am making an interactive art piece that displays the connection between ourselves and the people in our lives that influence us. The piece is a ceiling-mounted planetary mobile with multiple axes of rotation. The piece consists of six rings, from each of which hangs a series of planetary objects; the rings will be able to rotate independently. Each planetary object in the piece is representative of a real person in my life.

The work is set up to detect when someone is standing underneath it, so that the rings begin to spin only when someone is there to interact with the piece.

I want to stir a sense of connectivity in people. By having multiple rings of rotation, each separate ring of the piece will only spin when there is someone underneath it, meaning that 6 people will need to interact with the piece at the same time to create the full experience. By doing as such, they will share a brief connection between themselves, as well as understanding their connection to the planets that orbit around them.

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