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Installation Design
Overview
Inspired by installations at Siggraph and the "Swing" installation
at LACMA by Jennifer Steinkamp and Jimmy Johnson, where users interacted with
digital media by swinging, we decided to create a space where interaction with
digital media was 'fun' rather than conventional.
In keeping with our subject of dreams, we designed an installation based upon
a canopy bed. A sensor matrix will be placed in the bed and users will interact
with the space by triggering these sensors. This internal environment will be
separated by a curtain. It will contain imagery illustrating both pleasant dreams
and nightmares.
Users in the external environment will be able to control the information
(aural and visual) that the user on the bed experiences. An LCD projector will
project the various director dream sequences onto the canopy and another will
project them onto a screen located in the external environment. The canopy will
act as a screen.
Users on the bed will be able to view the different dreams on the canopy screen
and become part of the dreams themselves. These users will also be able to subtly
change the color, speed, or mood of the dream by interacting with the sensor matrix
on the bed.
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