The Other Side of The Body
This project aims to explore a topic with the Kinect sensor: In the age of cyberspace, what our bodies can do is beyond our imagination. We intend to use the body to influence the production of the installation art results directly to show that our body has the ability to change the world, which we can not see, and how we review properly with our body.
I came up with a projected interactive piece similar to the album cover design of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, With the help of the dark side of the moon album, I will use projection to cast light onto the prism (this prism not real one just a signifier), and Kinect for motion recognition, so that the various colours of the prism will be reflected in body movements, with different colours representing different selves, which will also reflect the id, ego and superego theory as described by Sigmund Freud.
Concept Inspiration
The Installation Design
This project will have two parts, we will use two screen projections to show these two parts. A screen projection we call the “id,” a concept based on Sigmund Freud's theory that we will use the white shape of the shadow to represent the player index of the person captured by Kinect. We will place a physical prism between the two screens. Another screen projection will be an interactive display screen, corresponding to Freud’s “super-ego”, we will show a character in the top layer filled with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet (player index captured by Kinect) , and we will use the information captured by Kinect on the XY axis of the hand to allow the user to interact with audio visualizations and fluid colour changes.
I also designed scene 2 for screen B. These are 2 magnetic balls that can moved with the hands' position, and they can let the particulars at the same point.
