Week 7

We were introduced to the second brief. Jason introduced us to examples of on-floor interactives and technologies (haptic interfaces, motion detection, touch enabled surfaces, projecting options, Peppers ghost, OLED screens, parabolic speakers etc. We were told to bring an exhibit we were interested in using and for my initial display I was thinking about the Te Marae:

Initially I chose this particular display because of its bright colours and interesting textures. I was also interested on the rich maori mythology that ties in with the exhibit. However after a discussion with Jason I realised my display might be too big for our hypothetical space so I was having second thoughts. During the weekend I researched for other potential objects and I found a sculpture called Ocean Balance by Owen Mapp as part of Te Papa's collection. It had all the same elements about it that I found interesting from the Te Marae except now it was more compact.