situated technologies

Writing up a proposal for Interior: a State of Becoming
in Perth Australia in 2012 the call says;

The common desire to be a designer is to create and produce speculative and/or tangible works. For designers who have shifted into education and by association research practice, the framing of research through design and with design has been a challenge. Recently research authorities have broadened their fields to validate creative work in a variety of manifestations. This ‘becoming’ of creative work as research not only addresses the separation [or frustrations] for the design practitioner/educator but also prompts critical reflection on the process and fields of creative work as research.

The state of ‘becoming’ as to happen, from the verb ‘hap’ [as spontaneous event or display] is the tenet to engender creative research output for the Exhibition Interior: a State of Becoming. The curators of the exhibition Interior: a State of Becoming invite proposals from researchers in interior architecture and interior design education and practice to submit proposals of speculative and or tangible creative work for exhibition. The exhibition will run in conjunction with the 2012 IDEA Symposium Interior: a State of Becoming. Therefore similar to the call for written papers, responses to the same provocation and themes of the 2012 IDEA Symposium are sought for the exhibition. Proposals may include active and static, virtual and non-virtual, 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional, constructed, speculative or performative piece/pieces or installations.

I've been looking at situated technologies as a way of framing an extension of the L.E.D Zeppelin project

some links to that here..

robotecture here

Flockwall here

which could be a good model for a work shop at ISEA 2012

Brigid Costello, looking at her PhD thesis

From Brigid Costello's 2009 PhD thesis.
PLAY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF INTERACTIVE ART.

"The research in this project focused on play as a way of thinking about, designing for and understanding the relationship between these interactive art systems and the audience experience they evoke."

a great introduction that may really help me to understand how to write research up.she locates the inquiry within a domain of research or activity and states what the design out comes were

"This research was centered within the discipline of interactive art and resulted in the creation of four interactive artworks: Elysian Fields, Sprung! and two iterations of a work titled Just a Bit of Spin".

She says what the central thrust or focus of the research is and then wraps this into a methodological approach. This sentence also locates what she wants to find out.

The research in this project focused on play as a way of thinking about, designing for and understanding the relationship between these interactive art systems and the audience experience they evoke.

LUCE: The Sound of Color (2009)

from here

Jena, Germany, February 25, 2009 – When the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin composed his "Prometheus" symphony nearly 100 years ago, he also developed a color piano that was to convert music into colors, creating a visual extension to the listening experience. However, during the lifetime of the composer (1872–1915), there were not the technological possibilities available to wholly implement this vision he had of converting music into color. Thanks to state-of-the-art color sensors today, it is now possible to stimulate all the senses of the audience.

State-of-the-art Color Sensor Technology from MAZeT Permits a
New Dimension To Be Achieved When Transforming Music into Colors

The “LUCE. The Sound of Colors" project offered impressive proof of this in December 2008. rosalie, a light artist from Stuttgart, Germany, placed 170 balloons in the booked-out concert hall of the Jena Volkshaus. These balloons provided a backdrop of light for the Philharmonic concert. The artist had transformed and programmed the musical pieces into a color composition that was then played along with the music. The balloons had different sizes—ranging from half a meter up to two and half meters in diameter—and were specially equipped with an LED and a color sensor. The color sensors developed by MAZeT and manufactured by Jenoptik ensured that every color that belonged to a note was always perceived in the same way, and more precisely, regardless of the ambient brightness. Only then can the fine nuances of the notes be transformed into differentiated shades of color.

thinking ISEA

which track to address??
perhaps

Transportation: “Dynamobilities”

The once-simple task of moving from point A to point B has become a minefield of choices and consequences. The “Dynamobilities” theme will highlight art works, panels and workshops that ask questions about and present possible solutions to the issue of 21st century mobility. Featured projects may include new devices for moving through space, mobile media that depend on the user's movement through space, or examinations of the power needed for mobility and/or question the need for speed. Theoretical presentations may address the mobility of people, goods and ideas.

dealing with interactive or responsive environments in relation to mobile media that depend on the user's movement through space, would allow for the balloons to be classified a s mobile media-making them responsive and autonomous ina choreographed ecology would address the communication intent being dependent on the users movement through space. This movement or participation in the activated space could in itself be the communication. The balloons movements being analogous to murmurating birds,undersea ecologies or a dream like trans-formative event.

thinking also about the balloon museum project
Balloon Museum:
Site Projects and performances relating to flight, weather, technology sponsored by Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Museum