{"id":251,"date":"2015-01-30T16:52:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2015-02-07T13:49:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T13:49:57","slug":"guarthack-interactive-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/guarthack-interactive-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"#GUArtHack: Rapid Prototyping of Digital Interactive Art for Public Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_253\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P1010388.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-253\" alt=\"The installation site was a dimly lit walkway set just below a busy pedestrianised street.\" src=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P1010388-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P1010388-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P1010388-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The installation site was a dimly lit walkway set just below a busy pedestrianised street.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In November, Julie Williamson (University of Glasgow) and Audrey O&#8217;Brien (Visual Artist) ran a workshop two-day workshop to explore ideas and concepts for a digital art installation for public spaces. \u00a0The goal was to create and design with concepts such as playfulness, performative interactions, surveillance, touch, and lighting. \u00a0The only requirement placed on workshop participants was to create a working prototype together during the two-day event. \u00a0At the end of the workshop, the participants exhibited the final prototype in a pop-up exhibition on the University of Glasgow campus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_254\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141107_104437.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-254\" alt=\"The participants developed the concept and prototyped the installation over the two-day workshop.\" src=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141107_104437-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141107_104437-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141107_104437-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The participants developed the concept and prototyped the installation over the two-day workshop.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over two days, this micro-residency brought together artists, designers and\u00a0computing scientists from a wide variety of backgrounds. \u00a0The workshop began with an exploration of the installation site. \u00a0\u00a0The installation was staged in a dark space beneath one of the University building, positioned below a busy pedestrianised walkway. \u00a0The final product was composed of six touch sensitive pendulums arranged around a spherical display. \u00a0Touching the pendulums produced music, with each pendulum creating different\u00a0visualisations on the sphere. The video below showcases the final installation from the pop-up exhibit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_255\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_2091.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-255\" alt=\"The installation involved a spherical display surrounded by touch sensitive pendulums.  Touching the pendulums made music and flowing graphics from the sphere.\" src=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_2091-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_2091-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_2091-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The installation involved a spherical display surrounded by touch sensitive pendulums. Touching the pendulums made music and flowing graphics from the sphere.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/112152882\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/112152882\">SIPS Workshop #1<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/danielsunden\">daniel sunden<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November, Julie Williamson (University of Glasgow) and Audrey O&#8217;Brien (Visual Artist) ran a workshop two-day workshop to explore ideas and concepts for a digital art installation for public spaces. \u00a0The goal was to create and design with concepts such &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/guarthack-interactive-installation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[32,31,29,30,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}