Shinyoung Park

1. Description
It is to create and environment that will allow the public to pause and notice something they ordinarily would not, due to their busy lives. Five small dolls- called Dust will be hidden somewhere in Tisch building. Their right hands are pointing at the ceiling and they make noises randomly to get attention from the viewer. When people look up where Dust is pointing at, there are words and the composition of words creates a sentence. Viewers can come to the booth with the sentence they come up with for a gift.

2. Personal statement
I am interested in creating interaction that people can take a moment and relax in busy lives.
A little bit of curiosity and attention is required to find boring life to be exciting.
I want people to find their lives more fun through the unusual experience.
Hiding a small black doll in public space is to trigger the behavior of looking at the sky for a relaxation.
Also hiding them in several places is for people to have a experience of treasure hunt which another interaction that could occur childhood memories to the audience.

3. Test
The experiment has been done on the street with dust with speaker inside.
The video is here

4. Game plan
1) Walk around to find hidden Dusts
2) Look up where Dusts are pointing at
3) Find the words
4) Compose them to make full sentences.
5) Come and fine for a reward!

1. Description
You Are the Universe is an interactive installation that considers an object on the screen
as a living creature--specifically a human figure with cells moving through the body.
The installation uses a combination of genetic algorithms and the distance between viewers
and the screen to express emotion through the human's and the cells' movements.

2. Personal statement
We are interested in using body movement and emergent computing to explore expressiveness
and emotional responses of people to computers and of computers to people.
I want to help people feel more aware of their inner selves by allowing them
to see through the human body into a landscape of cells whose purpose is to
express emotion, and allowing their interactions with the screen to affect the evolution of emotion.
At the same time, by altering the size of the image based on the viewer's distance from the screen, we want to give a sense of the similarities between macrocosm and microcosm, and to show viewers how a human is a small universe.

3. Background
Sometimes technology confuses people by confusing them with illusions.
However, I believe technology can help artists to liberate people's minds, let them dream,
and make them happy by having a moment of peace in their busy lives. There is a notion of the relationship between human and universe in Buddhism asserting that
"Each human being is one small universe," that human beings are all connected to the infinite energy
of the universe.
A person should feel confident that everything will come true if a person believes it will be,
because we have infinite resources connected to the universe.

4. Implementation
1) Sensing: Ultrasonic sensor
2) Decision: Arduino
3) Behavior: Processing

5. Applet
Here
Spring, 2007