Interactive Floor Projection

More Evidencing.. from mrycan on Vimeo.


C. Mendoza: Push/Pull (2005) (With Geon Dong Kim) from Cristobal Mendoza on Vimeo.


I am also looking at and interested in United Visual Artists who practice in permanent architectural installation, live performance and responsive installation.
Such as Contact: "Contact is a responsive floor based installation which allows visitors to use their kinetic energy to generate audiovisual forms that will interact with the user, and communicate with each other.
http://www.uva.co.uk/archives/74

Building an interactive floor.

Using a multi-touch application, such as tbeta (CCV) and configuring it to track people (blobs) coming into contact with the projection.

http://wiki.nuigroup.com/Getting_Started_with_tbeta

Scratch Film

Experimenting with 16mm clear film leader, created using inks.

Dance in Chile

In Chile, dance is an integral part of the country's culture. The national dance is the Cueca, it's performed throughout the year and during the national holidays in September. Another very popular dance style is Cumbia; it's music is played in clubs, on street corners and is constantly on the radio. Dance is so socially accepted that it can happen anywhere, at anytime and with anyone.




Dance has also been very prominent in my family especially, as part of our tradition we travel to a small village in the Atacama Desert; which was once inhabited by my ancestors (Atacama indians), for 4 days to celebrate the Virgen del Carmen on the 16th of July. The celebration not only involves Catholic rituals but also incorporates the Atacameñan culture through dance and music. The video is a compilation of some of the dance groups from the region that join us in this celebration.

Silent Disco

Interactive...

Following on from my idea of mapping I have been looking at interactive surfaces and the type of technology that is currently available.

interactive projections:

Space Hijackers

I have been looking at organizations such as 'Anarchitects' in particular a group called Space Hijackers..

"Our group is dedicated to battling the constant oppressive encroachment onto public spaces of institutions, corporations and urban planners. We oppose the way that public space is being eroded and replaced by corporate profit making space.We oppose the way that users of space are being put under increasing scrutiny and control by those who own or run it. Be this via CCTV installed to monitor us, or architectural elements designed to control our moods.

We oppose the blanding out and destruction of local culture in the name of global economic progress. Newer and Bigger is not always better, it is usually both impersonal and imposing.

Through our various actions we attempt to raise awareness of issues within spaces and change how these spaces are used and percieved in the future. We intend to destroy heirarchies within spaces and claim back public ownership. Our projects act as another voice within space, and become engrained upon the places we Hijack.

Our aim is to change the way that ownership and usage of space is percieved, to put users of space in a more level position. We want to have a say in how we all exist within public space, on where and how we meet. We are fed up with being treated like criminal cattle by the institutions and corporations that decide on the shape and content of our environment. The Space Hijackers in no way want to become leaders of some kind of resistance movement, our actions detailed on this site should act as a catalyst for others. If we can, you can. However we want to expand our membership in order to create a forum for discussion and development of these ideas. Our agents area is a space where interested parties can meet in a non heriarchical manner and help each other in their quests. "

Midnight Cricket is a game where the Space Hijackers venture into the city, to host Anarchist Vs Capitalist cricket matches on the streets of the financial centre of London. After finding a suitable pub, full of bankers and hedge fund managers, we arrive en mass dressed in our cricket whites and drink with the suits, striking up conversation and then challenging them to a match at closing time.





Greenwich foot tunnel pirate party.

Siesta In The City

Conformity

With my powerful persuasive techniques I was able to cast a number of people to perform and obey my simple requests. These tasks included leading others, manual labour, snacking and pecking the floor.



Obey and Conform from amanda ford on Vimeo.

With my dancing and hand shake experiments, I have found that the social pressure has been extremely difficult for most people to overcome and furthermore, the unwillingness to do so. The way people are so influenced by the perception of others to behave in a 'appropriate' way is limiting and closing off any possible social interaction with strangers. 
For the hand shake experiments I intend to place an obstruction/ something to make people aware of my presence to hopefully shake them out of this compliance to not interact with strangers. 

For the dancing experiments I plan to start off with a group of people then see if that will encourage more people to dance, also perhaps incorporating my study of mapping.