Tine Beach - Playful Interactions
My second lecture was held by Tine Beach. Our lecturer began as a fine artist who really enjoys research and collaboration. Their style of art was something the public could interact with and engage in for some fun. Play is seen as a very powerful action and is a very huge part in human, as well as animal interaction.
The thing that stuck to my mind was the quote "creating culture not to be consumed but to be experienced". I found this suited her field of work really well as she had very interactive pieces made.
We were shown a few of their projects, one of which was called Catch me Now. One of my two favourite pieces she'd shown to us. It was simply a light show you could play with. A little dot of light would move along the ground and once it'd censor someone standing on top of it, the dot would grown into a large circle of colour and follow the person around. I found this to be a very fun was project and by watching videos of peoples interaction with it, it was clear that it was likable by the crowd. Though she did mention that it confused many people at first, before the finally got the hang of it; however it was mostly the children that figured it out and played with it, where as the adults would stand back and not make that big a fuss about it.
Another favourite of mine was a piece called Tracking You. An interactive audio based display in which the public would wear capes and through their movement different sounds were created. This deemed more successful that the other since it got both the adults and children involved equally. More group play was achieved through this display which served as a positive point in terms of the aim of the project. A really fun part about it was that it'd make a crashing sound when the capes were at close distance from each other.
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