Award Winning Interactive?
I hope so. I just entered the Acura Interactive Oracles in the HOW Interactive Design Competition. Keep you fingers crossed for me!
See the competition entry
I’ve also posted a new video for you to see.
Add comment August 2nd, 2008
A different possibility for a relationship between a commercial enterprise and an academic institution.
I made the above poster for graduation night. It documents the relationship between George P. Johnson and the Media Design Program, using the Acura Oracle as a center point. The poster was displayed on the wall, next to the Oracle in the lobby of our studio.
(I just noticed that the version posted is not the final version, I will switch it soon)
Add comment April 24th, 2008
I realize I have not posted any videos of the Acura Oracle Symbol Generator application yet, so here you are:
Acura Oracles - Several Users »
Acura Oracles - Low Angle »
Add comment April 7th, 2008
During my internship at George P. Johnson, we took one of the experiments that I designed at Art Center and developed it for use in the Acura exhibit.
Add comment February 27th, 2008
At the 2008 Lucent L’amour party, I saw a performance by Andrew (Android) Jones. With a graphics tablet slung over his shoulder, he was generating live motion graphics on the giant projector display behind him. In his guitarist stance, performing right next to the DJ, he evoked a rockstar—except that he’s an illustrator!
This type of design-as-performance reminded me of two other projects I was involved in: the Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament and the Acura Interactive Oracles installations. Cut&Paste is a head-to-head design competition, turning the process of assembling a composition into a performance—on stage, in front of a live audience. Designer have 15 minutes to put on a show of their creative process and complete a finished composition. What I find so fascinating about Cut&Paste, is that the core product is the performance, and the by-product is the final compositions. In any kind of traditional context, the final composition is paramount. The process is invisible, hidden, and rarely considered.
Cut&Paste makes an invisible—but extremely interesting—process visible. This is what I’m getting at with my thesis research: what are interesting ways to manifest invisible processes. Similarly, the Acura Interactive Oracles project used multi-touch table surfaces to produce real-time graphics. The Oracles were installed in Acura auto-show exhibits, but the interesting possibilities were raised during my experiments with them in the Media Design Studio. Running an application that generated motion graphics by touching the surface of the Oracle, we recorded the session. The resulting video immediately re-contextualized the previously playful, temporary, interactive experience as one of production—a touch table could be used as a tool to create permanent motion graphics.
Similar to Cut&Paste, the Acura Oracles have the potential to manifest the process of someone’s interactions with them—which creates an entirely new creative opportunity. The way you do something can be just as much of a product as what gets done!.
Add comment February 23rd, 2008
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