IN VISIBLE CITIES

In Visible Cities is an interactive storytelling installation about individual and collective memories of life during 1950-1970s in rural cities in Thailand over a dinner conversation. The visitors are invited to explore the space inhabited by the invisible people who experienced social invisibility and social inequality and listen to their stories.

Concept and Development: The shadow was created in Unity3D and projected from the projector underneath the pedestal. All visuals and sounds are controlled by Isadora using the user's position tracked by Kinect which the user can maintain in their post to listen to the story in the different positions of the table and play with the shadow from their positions around the table.

The shadow is also used as a timer to give a hint of the length of each story.

createPattern( );

createPattern( ); is a project explore the effects of light and shadow and how to use body to control our surroundings. The project was inspired by Komorebi, which is the Japanese word for sunlight that filtered through the leaves of the trees, and other random patterns created by natural light and shadow.

Exploring Phase 1 : Mimicking Komorebi by using 2 mirrors to create a basic kaleidoscope, then attached a piece of paper onto each hand of the servos that sit on top of the mirror to mimic the leaves. The servos are control by Arduino using distance data from proximity sensors as an input - which you can see the hand on the left side of the screen in the demo video move-in and out.

Exploring Phase 2 : Applying colors into the project by creating colored shadow patterns and assigned some patterns/colors into the specific distance.

To make a color shadows from LEDs light, I need to follow CMYK colors system by mixing the intensity/brightness of each red, green and blue LEDs. And I also needed to add bright white LEDs to get rid of the common black shadows that might happen from the overlaps.