Keep your feet in the AIR and your HEAD on the ground
this is an installation with a bunch of elements:
an installation with two machines, a video projection and
electronics in a small room. It consists of a small human size
figure that travels through a hole in a wall near the floor
climbing a ladder through another hole in the wall across the
room near the ceiling, only to fall back down the ladder when it
reaches the top.
In front of this is a 6' robotic arm with a video camera on it.
When a viewer gets near the entrance of the room their
movements trigger the robotic arm to seek them out.
A footswitch on the floor causes the figure to climb the ladder,
this movement can trigger the robot arm to move forward and
back depending on where it is facing.
On the end of the arm is a surveillance video camera that pans
left to right, following any sounds it senses.
This video is shown on a small monitor in the room and outside
the room, on a monitor with a proximity sensor on top of it so
viewers across the gallery can activate one of the movements on
the robotic arm teleroboticly and watch its movements on the
monitor.
Video projection on wall of Redwoods landscape.
This piece is inspired by a sort of transcending, ala Yves Klein's
leap into the void, Chagall's flying people, the myth of Sisyphus
as well as stalking, surveillance, escape, survival and implication.
This is a project to explore new forms of interpersonal
communication through touch, force-feedback technology,
intimacy, social interaction via technology, machines, robots,
fear play, human interaction, rite of passage and empowerment.
So far, I have conducted thousands of such experiments on
willing volunteers.
an installation with two machines, a video projection and
electronics in a small room. It consists of a small human size
figure that travels through a hole in a wall near the floor
climbing a ladder through another hole in the wall across the
room near the ceiling, only to fall back down the ladder when it
reaches the top.
In front of this is a 6' robotic arm with a video camera on it.
When a viewer gets near the entrance of the room their
movements trigger the robotic arm to seek them out.
A footswitch on the floor causes the figure to climb the ladder,
this movement can trigger the robot arm to move forward and
back depending on where it is facing.
On the end of the arm is a surveillance video camera that pans
left to right, following any sounds it senses.
This video is shown on a small monitor in the room and outside
the room, on a monitor with a proximity sensor on top of it so
viewers across the gallery can activate one of the movements on
the robotic arm teleroboticly and watch its movements on the
monitor.
Video projection on wall of Redwoods landscape.
This piece is inspired by a sort of transcending, ala Yves Klein's
leap into the void, Chagall's flying people, the myth of Sisyphus
as well as stalking, surveillance, escape, survival and implication.
This is a project to explore new forms of interpersonal
communication through touch, force-feedback technology,
intimacy, social interaction via technology, machines, robots,
fear play, human interaction, rite of passage and empowerment.
So far, I have conducted thousands of such experiments on
willing volunteers.