Friday, 12 August 2011

Ideas for sustenance

I started trying to get ideas by sketching on a piece of paper. I was thinking about what sustenance means to me and how I should show it in a physical sort of way that we can use our senses to identify it.

In my first project I used prisms/ sun catcher crystals to break the sun rays into rainbow colors as the light passes through them, so playing with the light.  In this project I was thinking To use the light in a different way. Light could be the little light on the phone when we get a text message and keeps blinking till we open the text message. It could be the light of a little part of the screen of the computer showing that someone is available to talk. The light could be the light of a candle on a table and etc.

As I was thinking about digital language/communication tech, I was trying to find my own way of showing it. I did some sketches and tried to use different shapes but then I started thinking about screens, screens of different sizes places beside each other or merged into each other. Some of the screens are kind of transparent so we will be able to see the view outside. Using some of the screens people inside the room will be able to communicate to other people in other places and they will be able to see each other. The borders of the screens will cast bright light. When I was surfing the internet I got to a website saying "Light can measure, sense, and identify materials without touching them"(source: http://www.fotonik.dtu.dk/English/About/MoreAbout.aspx). This sentence made me start thinking about different things, even going to the world of science fiction. I was thinking what if people could teleport using the light! Creating keyboards using the light for communication. Creating other equipments out of light that if they get touched they can do some functions. Or they could do a scanning with light from the whole room and do some changes in the room.

In order to form my thoughts I logged into second life and picked a random place and started trying just to see how things would be like. 










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