Looking Outwards + Sketches for Final Project – Swetha
https://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/neurotic-armageddon-indicator-nai-proximity-to-armageddon/
This piece dos not actually have to do with my final project, but I found it very interesting that it relates to our previous project. Although it does look menacing, it is meant to be since it is basically a countdown to nuclear warfare. This project although simple carries a lot of weight and perhaps this is a lesson that I can incorporate into my final project?
https://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/petting-zoo-by-minimaforms-intelligent-artificial-creatures-designed-to-learn-and-explore/
This interactive petting zoo inspired my second idea. The thought of using technology as a means to interact in new ways is interesting and although the creature in this project is synthetic it still carries the idea of animal.
https://www.creativeapplications.net/scripts/gowiththeflow-scripts/
I really wanted to work with pumps in this project so “Go With the Flow” was an interesting project to encounter. Water keeps piling up in response to different emails that one gets. It’s simple and is a good way to keep track of your life; i can really see this being in a home as some piece of furnishing or design that is also informative of an individual’s social interactions.
Idea #1:
In india there is a ritual called itu kala samskara that every young girl from a traditional family goes through. This ceremony is similar to england’s coming of age balls for young girls, or jewish ceremonies (like Bat Mitzvah) that commemorate some sort of transition into adulthood. In this case, the Indian ceremony commemorates the first period of a young girl and is also the first time she is allowed to wear the traditional indian Sari. The ceremony is very embarrassing and makes a spectacle out of the first period. Because of this, I want to make a standing sculpture of a sari, which has an has an artificial period. The period will get heavier as the viewer comes closer. The sculpture is meant to be on display for days/hours so that by the end of the exhibition, the gown of the sculpture is drenched with *fake* blood.
Idea #2:
I want to make a sculpture that is based on interactions between creatures and may comeback to something we all had as a child; a pet goldfish. My idea is to make a fish tank with (hopefully) a live beta fish in it. The water in the tank will be continuously draining out of the tank and the only way water will be added to the tank is is someone is close to the tank (proximity sensor). In this way the fish relies on you for sustenance, which is against the nature of the beta and you, the viewer are similarly chained by the fish. I will of course add a safety feature to the tank to that the water level never goes below a certain threshold. I am, however reserved about this idea partly because of dealing with a live fish and partly because I am not yet sure how the mechanism would go.
