Methodologies and reasons for exploring meaningful group experience through multi-user interactive art

Traditionally, people might wish to have a solitary experience at an art gallery. It’s hard to experience anything of meaning viewing the Mona Lisa (da Vinci, 1503) when ‘the mass of people is 12 rows deep’ (The Guardian, 2004) and … Read More

Shared Experience – Work in Progress

During the moon landing in 1969, the same video feed was being watched on televisions sets across the globe, making it one of the greatest examples of a shared experience of all time. While Neil Armstrong was the individual at … Read More

Collaborative Interaction

For the end of term project fair I set up some of my collaborative control experiments which use the Kinect to track 2 or more people at once.

I am keen to start building more physical outputs for collaborative control, … Read More

Recreating a system of audience control using coloured paddles: Part 3

I decided to recreate Loren Carpenter’s experiment of audience control using coloured cards, enabling an audience to collaboratively play games. In this experiment, Carpenter observed his audience acting as an “amoeba”.

I’m interested in the effects of this kind of … Read More

Recreating a system of audience control using coloured paddles: Part 2

Last week I set up a simple recreation of Loren Carpenter’s Pong experiment and had some friends test it. I want to do this with larger audiences and have been working on making this happen.

Along with a collaborator, Min, … Read More

Recreating a system of audience control using coloured paddles

Last week I created a series of experiments in collaborative control which produced some interesting results and I plan to continue down this road.

I want to recreate Loren Carpenter’s Pong experiment, because I expect I will be able to … Read More

Collaborative Control Experiments

The Pong Experiment

In 1991, Loren Carpenter (co-founder of Pixar), tried an experiment at Siggraph. People entered a theatre to find small paddles left on their seats, with one green side and one red side. On a screen, they could … Read More