Our 3 ideas

Here are the 3 ideas that our group have started with:

1. Chatter Critic ( Anthony Massingham ) -
An ambient and background conversation monitoring tool. Microphones are placed throughout the gallery at various artworks. Each microphone monitors the conversations that people have about each painting / exhibit. Each conversation is analysed for positive and negative comments. These words / phrases are then sent to the computer, and are saved, edited, cut apart and re-arranged into new phrases and comments and played back through speakers as well as being displayed on screens. Depending on the frequency of use of a particular word of phrase it will determine the amount of times it is repeated or displayed.

2. Toilets for Seats (Megan Daley) -
Art Galleries need seating, particularly in front of artworks on occassions. So, an abstract interactive artwork can be made involving toilets as seats. Here is a scenario: Person walks up to artwork on wall and admires it. They turn around and see 3 toilets in a row, all artistically painted and clearly shown to be seats for admiring the artwork on the wall. Person sits on toiltet seat. After short period of time, sounds of someone going to the loo can be heard, this soundtrack continues until the person gets up and walks away from the toilet and artwork on wall. After this a flushing sound is instigated. This can break the some-what serious nature of many art galleries.This would work with sensors on the toilet seats and speakers inside to create the effect that they are using the toilet.

3. Pierre's is to come...