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float routine, 2001
screen interface

fur, 2001
screen interface
shiver, 2001
screen interface
fur station, 2001
custom built computers
original soundwork
FibreOptic Touch Sensitive Pad
shiver station, 2001
custom built computers
original soundwork
FibreOptic Touch Sensitive Pad
float routine station, 2001
custom built computers
original soundwork
FibreOptic Touch Sensitive Pad
Art Gallery of Sudbury
installation view, 2001/2

Part game, part machine-dream

these reconfigured digital environments invoke a new involvement
with computers and interactive technology. Skin and fur interfaces wiggle and erupt into
pixelated landscapes becoming both spacial and body referent. Populated by computer
generated 3d characters and audio elements which are activated exclusively by touch,
the player 'enters' the space by using flat panel monitors, headphones and
pressure-sensitive input devices.

Programming code is the silent partner in these works. Sophisticated algorithms allow a
viscosity not normally associated with the point and click world of computers.
Detailed movements and pressure of multi-finger touch are tracked as XY and Z
coordinates.

You interact with and, in essence, create 'vignettes' by 'calling upon' sound arrays and
animated characters.

No two experiences are alike.

Each station consists of

• custom built computer
• custom built XML socket
• customized programming modules
• original composition and soundwork
• 3d rendered and animated characters
• interface design
• TACTEX controls touch-sensitive input skins
• steel stand
• flat panel lcd

How it Works
• see below (keep scrolling)

touch sensitve fibre optic skins >>> the technology
courtesy of the wonderful scentists and engineers at TACTEX CONTROLS


fibre optic touchpad

fibre optic touchpad

fibre optic touchpad

fibre optic touchpad
Custom Built Computers


• the works are
processor intensive

• 1.4 Ghz custom
machines are needed

How it Works

• Touch sensitive pad reacts immediately to your touch.

• You press and rub the pad and we gather those coordinates in the form of X, Y and Z numbers.

• When you press - up to 8 fingers at once - on the pad, you begin to activate SOUND, INTERFACE WIGGLING, and animated CHARACTERS appear and follow your finger movements.

 

contact the artist:

Michelle Gay
Toronto, CANADA

1.416.516.9842


Other work by Michelle Gay >>> Battle Game, 2002 (Bayeux Tapestry redrawn with Quake war game Programming code)