Background & Initial Plan Dream The ultimate goal is to create a new participatory form of performance art, amplified and/or powered by the new behaviors shaped by social sharing on the internet. Digital actions like commenting, liking, watching, or clicking would have immediate physical affects on the performance and/or the performer. The performance would then become an experiment on crowd sourcing and democratic model of decision-making, as the content of the performance w

For more context, read initial plan & data parsing breakdown. TLDR Version; What is done / working: Scraping comments from Facebook livestream (NodeJS, FB Graph API) Sending electrical signals to actual muscles (TENS unit) Controlling current from TENS (Arduino + relay) To work on: (!) Creating a "performance" Figuring out the delay between comment -> scraping -> sending current Incorporating delay into the interaction between viewer/commenter/performance, possibly by having

"Having Fans Means Needing Fans" - Zoe Fraade-Blanar & Aaron M Glazer Concept The piece is an exploration of how far can a relationship between a fan and a celebrity be taken. It is the last part of a 3-part study on fandom culture (see first part here). In the era of social media, fans now have access to celebrities' personal lives. The celebrities, in turn, leave trails for their fans in the form of interviews, social posts, and symbolisms in their work. Fans need their cel

Read part 1 here. Getting Sensors on My Body I made the visualization program, now it was time to getting the actual data (i.e. placing sensors on my body). I already had some IR distance sensors from my theremin project, but I decided to buy ultrasonic sensors instead since they: (1) have a range from 2-400cm, and (2) give a value that can be readily converted into cm's. The sensors had to be on my body so my dear roommate sewed a pouch/necklace thing to hold my sensors and

For PComp's mid-term, I pitched an idea about visualizing the amount of personal space I get throughout the day (disclaimer: most of the time I highly value my personal space). Distance sensors I wear on my body will periodically measure the distance I have from things (aka my personal space). Then using Arduino, I will log these data and feed it into a visualizing program that I make on P5. Here is how I made it, broken into few parts because, boy, it was such a headache mak