Even Morrissey can stink

Our new direction in the festival project is to make a karaoke-machine. This singin phenomenon often produce a lot of bad material and is by many concidered being a tacky thing best suited for shady bars.

We on the other hand want to combine this concept with the more refined music culture of Øyafestivalen, with dedicated choices of songs related to the visitors music profile. Can this produce some what more pleasant sounds than the ones heard on the video?

Also take a look at Candice Breitz study on fan-culture and her karaoke experiments.

Tom Na H-iu

Our idea of "Viggo -the friendless installation" is thought to be something like this. Only with the lights moving accordingly to the touching of peoples hands. When more people touch at the same time the feedback changes, thus creating a subject for conversation and collaboration.

Festival Visuals

It's winter now which makes it hard to imagine what summer and festivals feels like. Some pictures might help.

Remote Speaker

Had to post this one too. This gives people an opportunity to express meanings public without the embarrassing attention of the speakers corner, yet it delivers the message in a more "old-school" way than lets say a sms-chat on a big screen i.e. 

I like the materiality of this installation because I fear that introducing to many digital devices like screens and graphic interfaces will inflict the festival-feeling in some way. Done in a nice way I think it can be a nice translation from digital to analog media.

Memory Wall

Here is a good example of a relatively simple interactive installation which I guess gives added value to the social experience of a festival. Could be something to look to if we work further with gossip- or the sharing-ideas.

A hint

Due to our next direction in the project working with a 'hide and seek'-concept, I found the Spy-on-yourself Beauty Mirror interessting. Giving people at the festival hints on where they are, how they look and so on. 

Iteration Three - Platform for prototypes

Our first approach to the festival project is to regard the festival as an area that we can place different RFID devices into. Our thought is that every guest has a tag and this can in some way be registred by readers in different areas of the festival. You will get a feedback on each reader device but there will also be a feedback based on the network of readers that communicate with eachother, reflecting the activities of the tags.

So there are two layers of interactivity/feedback. The personal interaction with immediate feedback, and the "part of the big picture"-feedback that maybe is generated over time. So far these are just loose ideas but for the Arduino workshop we may want to investigate:

-how different readers can communicate with eachother?

-what is the difference between personal and common touch?