"Margaret is interested in exploring the complexities of human psychology through the use of technology and visuals. More specifically she wants to explore the concept of escaping reality and how humans do this through technology. For example how people use video games to escape reality. She uses her art pieces to help people face reality and confront their demons."
I would like to share two ideas for an upcoming installation. Please leave comments and let me know what you think of them!
Getting Lost in Video Games
Imagine a large white room with a small Gameboy in the middle of the wall opposite. You walk up the game and see your favorite game. You take the controller and start to navigate the game on the little screen. As you begin to get enveloped in the small square light, you begin the realize that the walls of the room have slowly filled with projections of the game you are playing. You continue playing with the walls as your huge screen instead of looking at the small game console. After a short amount of time, at the most exciting part of the game, the small Gameboy screen changes to display not the game, but current world events. The news on the small screen does not register with you at first since you are distracted by the huge screen of the walls, eventually though, the projections fade into the current world events as well, and you find yourself surrounded by real killings and explosions that happened somewhere in the real world at some point.
This installation would hopefully help the user consider how we escape the real issues in our lives and choose not to face them by using technology or other escape activities. Facebook, video games, etc. are all ways that we avoid dealing with real life. How can we learn to deal with real life instead of finding ways to avoid it?
Peace
This simple projection allows a user to walk to the center of the room to a computer and type in the name of a peaceful place. Ex. The beach, Bedroom, the mountains, etc. Like a google search, the computer searches its database for images that relate to that place and projects them onto the walls, surrounding the user with a virtual reality of their preferred peaceful place. Enjoy and relax!
Peace: that would be cool to have a gallery wall being projected and have a database of different images you'd like to display and have them change over time.
ReplyDeleteLost in Video Games: an awesome idea. I think you would want screenshots to appear randomly around the room, right? and eventually have the walls filled. It would also be cool if the screen shots were different sizes.