Our group focuses on one of the three possible plans (will be settled tomorrow). The third one is most interesting and the first one is the easiest in terms of implementation.
1. Digital Pacman Project
i) Materials Needed
Paper, Speakers, LEDs
ii) Description
– Simple sound/light as beacon of the QRs
– User scans QR code posted on the walls, plays a pacman game, and get to see our assignments and movies showing our creative projects and process
– Pacman game with Shahram as the pacman and the professor as the “monster”
2. Scavenger Hunt
i) Materials Needed
Paper, Speakers, LEDs, Beamers
ii) Description
– Simple sound/light as beacon of the clues
– The clues are tied to the creative process of that assignment. (e.g. Random Stimulation: people + mouth = entrance)
– User find models/posters of our assignments using the clues
– For each assignment, a part of the final code is given
– The clues are set along the path the users are likely to move, leading to the tower
– The final summarizing video (animation on lateral thinking) is set on the tower where user input his or her unique code, use a beamer to project it
3. “Metta” Sound + Vision Meditation Dome
i) Materials Needed
Beamer, Speakers (Or we are thinking of using device speakers as we want our sound to blend in with the ambience)
ii) Description
– Metta is a Buddhist term of loving-kindness. Embrace your surroundings and your creative, childlike thoughts that comes randomly and make sense of it.
– Engages the Audience, a guide of meditation is needed (e.g. Sid). Meditation is a core part of our class and stimulus to our creative process.
– It will be best if the whole tower space can be used as the dome
– Background Music will be AI-generated combining Oud / Arab music and Sufi Music. Some of our assignments are AI-generated and we believe that they can be part of our creative processes as well. It can also incorporate Sid’s Assignment 2, on the sounds of silence
– Beamers are used to project effects on the surrounding walls and tower dome
– The meditation engages audience to take part in our creative process.
– Beamer effects shows elements from assignments (e.g. apple fairies flying, Shahram’s “pursuit of happiness”), readings (e.g. reversal process = moon falling to the earth…; ), explicit notifications of creative strategies (e.g. words)
– Beamer effects can also show the creative processes introduced through a way similar to my assignment 2 (land of memories), as our creative processes are our memories for the past few weeks and are likely to become long-term.
– We should give people apples after each session