MPM42a/b
New Media Production
4th year student’s senior PROJECT SYNOPSIS template document
Fall-Winter 2011-12
Due: 2nd class September 2011
Instructors: Jessica FIELD, Lila PINE, Priam GIVORD
Below are the features to include in your 1st Project Synopsis document. It is an indicative list (non-exhaustive) of the first things to put down when starting, we would like to see them all addressed and more if you see fit.
Please bear in mind that this is going to be part of the first mark given for 4th year.
__category of the work
Interactive non-linear video installation: providing narration to the gallery space.
__artistic and technological references
Drawing influence from videogame culture; exploring the nature of narrative as it pertains to an individuals actions within a closed environment. This piece is a response to the growing level of surveillance in our lives and the narrative of our news outlets, exploring the contemporary prison; the increasing need for control.
• Bioshock
• Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison – Michael Foucault
__descriptive text of 10 lines mini, for example: what it is going to feel like experiencing your work? What is it about, what is its message?
The work consists of 9 video displays encased in dark plastic. Grouped in threes the displays will create a path through the main space. Using infrared sensors the display will notice the presence of nearby viewers and begin playing. The videos will create ask the user to participate in their story by directing the viewer from screen to screen. The video logs will explore shared themes in Lucas Thurston’s concept album I: The Edge By Supercompact Wormhole Propulsion. Lucas’s concept album uses Nietzsche’s theory of utopian society; the video pieces will juxtapose them with Foucault’s exploration of the evolution of contemporary prison systems. The video network will direct you to the statues of Steven Wright and the final video screen. Your journey is complete. Each video screen is also equipped with a camera that has been photographing every viewer and uploading this information to a centralized database. This information will be used for a variety of applications including live projection and potentially facial recognition driven statements given to the viewer when the system detects they have arrived at the end.
The work asks the viewer to depart from the convention of their life and explore the lives of the individuals contained within the screens; depicting their lives throughout the completion of the story. The video warns of the future of surveillance and the nature of an increasingly technological world. The system is interested in teaching you and will recommend you visit the rest of the pieces at the completion of every video. The photograph taken of you will be before the video begins.
__materials and technologies required
1. 9x iPads
2. 9x Infrared Sensor
3. 9x Speaker
4. 9x Plastic Enclosure
5. 9x Arduino Micro-Controllers
I will also need to create USB circuits to connect the iPad to the Arduino, most likely a simulated keyboard input. This is to trigger the iPad to play video and to trigger the camera to take a photograph.
__Include potential fabrication difficulties that can happen during project making this year
Acquiring all the iPads will be challenging. The fabrication of the enclosures to conceal the iPad and the Arduino will require CNC cut plastic. I will then need to create a complete non-linear 9-part story. In conjunction with this I will also be co-producing Lucas Thurston’s Album.
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