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David Rokeby is an installation artist from Toronto, Canada and has been creating and showing his work since 1982. His interactive installation Hand-held (2012) was probably the most interesting to me. This installation is based completely on the viewer's movements and where their hands fall on the installation.  The projection itself has 80 different layers of images, making it to where the height of one's hands shows different images. As one comes into focus with the main images, when the hands move the images unfocus until they're back under the right height. The image above is just one out of the 80 images used for this installation so you can see that at this height in these positions what would be clear and what would be out of focus.  https://vimeo.com/48946545 Artist Statement: "Hand-held  is an installation that consists of an apparently empty space which reveals its contents as you explore it with your hands. Today, we regularly use our hands to nav...

For this project Eric and I plan on working together to create the "Dinner Table". We're thinking about creating a legitimate dinner table with plates, cups, silverware, chairs, etc. This will bring in the element of audience interactivity because they can physically come and sit at our dinner table. Our plan is to somehow project from above onto the plates that are on the table, which will definitely be our biggest challenge here.  We want to project actual meals onto the plates so it feels as though the audience is getting served an actual meal. As for smell, we want to play around with this a little bit so that can play in with the audience's experience. I was also thinking we could physically serve bread or dessert or something so that people actually get to eat as well. We want to create this to showcase a "proper" dinner table and make people feel happy through the sight, smell, and possible taste of food.  Materials: Projector Table Dish...

The "fear of missing out" or "FOMO" is a very common feeling in people my age from my perspective. People like to be invited to things, like to participate in things, and like to be included. For me, I struggled a lot with this during my high school years more than anything.  My two closest friends had been best friends since birth basically so I almost always felt like a third wheel. It didn't stop with that though I felt left out 99% of the time too. My friends would always hang out, go to the movies, go out to eat, etc. and I wouldn't be invited. During this time, I felt as though it was on purpose and that I didn't have any real friends.  Sometimes I feel as though even the act of being invited to outings, even if you cannot go or your friends know you'll say no, helps you feel more included and thought of.  I wanted this installation to really show the feeling one has when feeling left out or experiencing FOMO. The sight of me laying on my...

I have now got my video file ready to go for projecting for the project. I have a camera and a tripod ready that I'm borrowing from a friend ready to go as well and a projector booked from the cage. Plan to install and film soon! 

I have a projector booked and a camera ready to go so that I can begin filming asap. Currently I am working on putting the video in a fashion that I like that will be projected onto the wall behind my couch in the common area.

So far I have gathered most of the videos I will be using for my projection. I might add some more later on but for now, these are the ones I have narrowed it down to.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's  33 Questions per Minute  really intrigued me because it is  one of many of a lot of large-scale interactive installations that he does. This one in particular focuses on a computer program that generates  fortuitous questions. Most of the questions don't make any sense, but the program uses grammatical rules and words from a dictionary to make these questions. The LCD screens that he used to display these questions would show 33 questions a minute, enough time to read them but not to reflect on them.  However, it is interactive as well. Viewers can enter their own questions into the system and they will randomly be put into the mix of 33 questions a minute. Since they are random viewers are unable to tell the difference between computer generated questions and human generated questions. I find this work really interesting because it shows us all the different possible outcomes for questions and questions that have never been asked bef...