Response to an interactive art collective (Klip Collective)

Adidas
     The first interactive project of Klip Collective that I came across was their "Real-time shoe customization" that they did for Adidas.  The link above shows a video of what this project was and how it worked for the user. They installed a giant blank shoe in the Adidas store and users were able to customize their shoe live from an iPad onto the shoe to be able to actually see it in person. The customizations that appear on the installation shoe are moving graphics and there are many options for the user to choose from. I really like the idea of this, because it brings a virtual thing to real life. I think this would be very helpful and useful for the consumer, as well as the fact that they would just like to use it due to it being entertaining.
Nightscape
     The next project of theirs I saw was "Nightscape." This is an interactive project in which they projected lights and sounds on an array trees and buildings in Longwood Gardens in Kennet Square, Pennsylvania.  Klip Collective really thought out the order the user would experience these scenes and had them specially articulated to be the best experience possible. The use of moving lights and sound that goes along with them seems to me like a very interesting experience that I would like to walk through myself.  There is a lake that had projections of fireflies dancing and the trees surrounding the lake all appeared to change seasons by using various color and lighting effects. After this area there is a section of the garden in which the one experiencing has choice, and is able to walk from installation to installation in an order they please. This causes for some variability and more freeness for the user. I think it was very beneficial to start with a very ordered set of things to see which eventually lead to a free space, rather than the whole thing being free space for the user to experience. And once out of the free explore space, there is once again a set of installations that play a certain set of a performance for people to view in one way only. This set is for the people to view and experience as they are exiting the gardens, it gives a great long lasting impression for the people.
We Day
     Kilp Collective has also collaborated with The&Partnership to visualize Lynelles story of bullying. She was giving a talk on stage about her experience of bullying in school and how she felt and what she did to overcome it. I think this was an extremely successful project. They were able to create actual visuals that appeared on multiple giant screens behind her while she gave her speech. The visualizations were completely in sync with what she was saying and really helped to move her point across. I believe that it gave the speech a lot more meaning and power by having the visuals isync to watch behind her while listening, rather than just having her solo on stage with a mic to watch and listen to. It almost makes her speech come to life because you are able to watch her story unfold as you hear the words that go along with this story. You are able to feel as though you are living the story, rather than just listening to someone else's story.
      This art collective has very interesting ideas that I have never explored before. It was very useful to see what they are doing and how they are doing it. They have many great ideas and they are all very well thought out and planned.

Assignment Four Critique

https://homepages.utoledo.edu/jrabban/islandTime/

     Going in to this critique I was looking forward to what people had to say since I already had some ideas of my own as to how I could improve this piece and what I wanted to change. I want to make it so that the rain only works on the down key, not with any key, and that it resets once off the page.  Not much more was said about this other than me asking how I would go about doing that and receiving advice as to how. Other than people giving compliments, I got one question as to why the trees are moving, but I enjoy that they change size and that is not going to change. I think I will also go and try to make the clouds change scale as well as they move across as was brought up during last critique.

response to an interactive project

https://redpaperheart.com/work/heinekeninteractivebar
This is an interactive installation with actual and practical use. This is very interesting and cool to me because it is a bartop that is sensitive to touch. You are able to touch it and parts will light up. You can also draw with your finger on it and it will drag the drawing along with your finger; the design that is drawn I also really like since it is origami pieces rather than just a solid line that would follow you. I also really like the fact that this bartop has a feature that allows you to order another beer. You are able to click on certain spots to alert the bartender that you are in line or want another beer. Also the bartop is able to recognize if a heineken is placed on it, and it creates a series of reactions due to that. I overall think this is a very cool idea and that it was created very well, this is why I like this piece of interactive art.

assignment three critique

Today we critiqued assignment three and i think i was told and got to discuss a few things that will actually help. Amanda brought up that the cursor is able to disappear which i think will make this sketch look even better than it did originally so i am going to change that immediately. Also Haley brought up the island and the tree and changing it in some way. I agree with this and am going to actually draw an island in illustrator and then import in the raster image. I think these two things alone will make a stronger composition. I feel like i did well with this assignment and  I'm excited to move forward with it now.