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

This project is also a work-in-progress for Project Development Studio class. Initial concept can be found here. As of now, the project does not have a title yet, but it is literally a program to turn comments on Facebook livestream into serial data for physical actuation in a performance. Full codes can be found here & here. The program has several parts: Facebook Login Pulling & storing comments from a Facebook livestream using Graph API Displaying stored comments Parsing c

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 would rely completely on th