Meeting Minutes 2007.01.23

Interactivity

• Pied Piper Staff - controls on board, GPS beacon, shepherd
  • staff has all locative technology from spheres...
  • can determine distance to sighted target from angle, assuming human height
• Preprogrammed Movement Patterns - Initiate a sequence
• One or more is special, to be pushable, others follow
• Giant Pool Cue
• centroid of the pattern
• color changing
• false interactivity... great trick
  • apophenia

Mother Ship

• photovoltaics if cheap
• pedal powered cart drags trailer with docking station
• golf cart power
• appearance will determine interpretation of piece.
• costumes - bees, golfers, clean suits, tyvek shorts.
• orb shaped - windows? entrance, egress?
• vantage point
• pyramid vs sphere
• egg carton
• nest (good complement for biological inspirations)
• trailer
• go really minimal
• used boat trailer
• used ice cream cart

Artistic Message

• Negentropy
  • Schroedinger "What is life"
  • "syntropy"

• Atom Heart Mother

• Music of the Spheres

• Dancers
  • simple, classic animation view
  • relative "personal space"
  • swarm lake

• Selected negentropy

Locative Technology

• EKF has problems with non-Gaussian noise
  • most noise sources should be reasonable
• Camera Kite for relative location
• Sonar Ranging

Processing

• http://www.embeddedarm.com/
• Do we need more for floating point

Shell

• wood grid, birch ply: Toast, acquaintance of David and Simone
• different coverings - eyeballs, tits, pool balls

Grant Thoughts

• Art Guidlines