"48 hours of holding hands!"
31 ideas, 80 people, 48 hours to design, build and code a project--only 5 to make the festival. It culminated in a 5 minute presentation/demonstration within Intersection for the Arts. Fortunately, project "i just wanna hold your hand" made it into october 20th festival!
It was an eye-opening weekend of talent and new possibilities. And, a lot of hand holding! More to come in the future...
Here's the project presentation and description by Ellen Keith, Yael Braha, Mark Roth, Tosh Chiang and Jasdeep Garcha
Conducting energy through people to stimulate tangible public interactions.
By interacting with one another people are able to transform their environment through play. Two metal hands are mounted to the wall. When two or more individuals complete the circuit they provoke audio-visual responses. The level of interactivity is determined by the flow of electricity through the individuals. The interaction can be tailored per installation; the core tool is the Arduino, and in this case we've experimented with Processing projections to activate blank city walls. storefronts, or pavement. This design allows for expansion as well as meaningful data collection. Also, we just like making people hold hands.
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