Artist Index

aka: Ways to Procrastinate

F.T. Marinetti; “Foundation Manifesto of Futurism;” Le Figaro 1909

We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. For hours we had trampled our atavistic ennui into rich oriental rugs, arguing up to the last confines of logic and blackening many reams of paper with our frenzied scribbling.

An immense pride was buoying us up, because we felt ourselves alone at that hour, alone, awake, and on our feet, like proud beacons or forward sentries against an army of hostile stars glaring down at us from their celestial encampments.

Goya

Goya
"Self-Portrait with Easel"
1790-1795

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin
"Ceramic Vase with a Caricature Self-Portrait"
1889

Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann
"Self-Portrait with Crystal Ball"
1936

walking on water

Lifesize Wireless Jigsaw Puzzle Game Installation Thingy

I have an idea for a semi-large scale installation. It's basically a giant jigsaw puzzle which requires people to work together to solve the puzzle. And by work i mean move.

(The puzzle could be a still photograph or maybe even running video.)

The idea is that over a given area--say 50ft by 50ft--each person's location can be triangulated. Each person playing the game will be matched to a given piece of the puzzle. The puzzle is projected on the wall or ceiling--somewhere where it's easy for all to view. As the people move, their piece of the puzzle moves along with them on screen. 

As people move close to their true neighboring pieces--the ones they fit together with--their pieces can snap together on screen (and hopefully their are some auditory and visual clues like highlighting around successful piece matches). 

As people are forming "groups" the groups may have to shift around together in order to continue to solve the puzzle while the other remaining pieces fall in line.

this is a first draft btw, so here are some things to figure out:

How can we triangulate locations of participants in such a relatively small field? It would be cool to be able to do it with WiFi or RFID--something people use everyday without really thinking about it--but i don't know how successful it can be. 

How can we get a computer to slice up a puzzle randomly and assign random pieces to people?

"What are you gonna do..."

My first post is basically a manifestation of me over-thinking everything :)

"The Kitten's Pur"