Help, ideas and inspiration needed!

[Trunks]

As part of my degree (Interactive Media), I have to design & create my own art installation (by May 2012) - it needs to be "interactive" in some way! In any way, sound, pictures, lights, videos, computers...

So, if you have been to an exhibition or gallery and were wowed by a simple but really effective installation, or just your wacky ideas, please post here.


Thanks

P.s Sorry mods if this is in the wrong place...

 

[Trunks]

My first thought was recording the view & sound from my hammock - looking straight up towards the trees. Then building a sound deadened room, leaf litter on the floor and pictures of the surrounding woodland on the walls, then hanging my hammock in it and projecting the video onto the underside of a tarp. Joe public then gets in the hammock and hangs and listens and gets away from it all for a few minutes

 

[Toddy]

I like that could you not timelapse a day and night, and not flicker through it, but soft in and out of focus as it changed through time ? trees, wind, sky and clouds and stars Birds and squirrels, hedgehogs and voles.....
You need speakers near the ears (built into the hammock ?) too.

This could be the ultimate lullaby/meditation thing you realise

M

 

[Shewie]

This sounds like the perfect excuse to get that cuben tarp mate Imagine looking up at the twinkly stars in the ceiling

 

[Trunks]

You need speakers near the ears (built into the hammock ?) too.

I was thinking, subtly hidden 5.1 surround sound speakers

I though about time lapse, but with video, i can set it up and just leave it running...

I'm pretty sold on this idea, but not sure my tutors would agree! Thats why i'm asking for other ideas - can't see the wood for the trees - so to speak

 

[Trunks]

This sounds like the perfect excuse to get that cuben tarp mate Imagine looking up at the twinkly stars in the ceiling

I've just paid off the credit card too

 

[Shewie]

I'm pretty sold on this idea, but not sure my tutors would agree! Thats why i'm asking for other ideas - can't see the wood for the trees - so to speak

It's a good point, trying to see beyond us lot and the hangers then maybe experiencing a camp isn't so enthralling.

What if you made it more about the journey than the destination so to speak, maybe give the audience the chance to choose their own path? Maybe involve some kind of navigation skills so they have to make some decisions based on a map and compass bearings. I'm thinking one could lead to a camp next to a river or waterfall, another could be the quiet of a woodland camp or maybe one on the top of a hill with the wind blasting through.

Maybe get them involved somehow with carrying out camp duties, picking the right items to light a fire and boil a pot sort of thing, all PC/touchscreen based of course

 

[Trunks]

Cheers rich, good ideas

The show will be in the middle of Manchester, so I quite like the juxtaposition between the city and the wood.


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[jackcbr]

Might not be quite what you're after, but what about the deadened white cube with a (large) tent that on the inside is a woodland, sight, sounds and smells. The Great Indoors if you will.

Slightly more graphical approach, thinking on "not seeing the wood for the trees" concept. Create a set of trees with engineered bark so that from one point in the room the view comes together and the pattern in the bark would spell out wood. Maybe project your time lapse on to the back walls. Or even use shadows to spell out woods on the floor. Rig up the lighting to simulate the passage of day.

Maybe a more provocative, create an industrial scene but use lighting/projection to give the shadows of trees. Maybe use a pelican crossing button box, but when the lights change, you get the sounds of nature to make it more tactile.

 

[Trunks]

I like the Idea of playing about with shadows etc, great ideas, thanks

This doesn't have to be bushcraft related at all! It could be anything really


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[jackcbr]

looking back at the OP this morning got me thinking again. It needs to be sensory and interactive. So how about a series of foot pressure pads that have modern life sounds and projections associated with them. This noise could build and then translate into sights and sounds of nature. Something that makes people uncomfortable or on edge and then leaves them relieved often goes down well.

Back in my day we took pieces of art like guernica and made an installation from that with sounds and some visuals and the figures in it played by us.

 

[EdS]

the sites and sounds of Haworth in Bronte times -- TB and raw sewage

 

[Trunks]

the sites and sounds of Haworth in Bronte times -- TB and raw sewage

Not much has changed tbh


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[EdS]

but you've now got the added delight of Karaoke from the Black Bull

 

[TurboGirl]

We have a phd project in leicester thats well worth a looksee, if you're on Basefook he's at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000872185497 . The interactivity is the hard bit, isn't it?! Good luck 'Fabrika IAC' if you can't FB it

 

[Trunks]

but you've now got the added delight of Karaoke from the Black Bull

And from the Kings at the same time. When the brass band start practicing too it sounds mental!


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[Trunks]

We have a phd project in leicester thats well worth a looksee, if you're on Basefook he's at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000872185497 . The interactivity is the hard bit, isn't it?! Good luck 'Fabrika IAC' if you can't FB it

Thanks, I'll check it out


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[Harvestman]

Okay, you asked for silly ideas. I always wondered about driving a car on a longish journey (say 1 tank of fuel) during summer, when the insects were out. Start with a completely clean windscreen, and then don't clean it at all during the journey. By the end it should be smeared with dwead insects and grime. Take the windscreen out of the car at the end and that is your exhibit.

It says something about travelling and journeys, life and death, the meeting between the natural world and the man-made...

You can make it interactive by including a seat and steering wheel, maybe a car interior, and playing video of the journey taken projected so it is visible to the person sitting behind the wheel.

My local garage uses the front half of a mini as its reception desk. Something along those lines.