Students/BenBrickley

Statement

Ben Brickley

4th year VA computing media

The major focus of my work revolves around images. I am mostly interested in film, photography, and sound design, but I have dabbled in a wide variety of mediums from painting to interactive light displays. I am mainly interested in producing digital media that interacts with concepts of film and sound design.

Midterm Project

Emilio and I have decided to collaborate for the midterm project. We plan to use the arduino microchip controller.

Motivation

I would like to work with the arduino microchip controller to work with virtual image processing. Because I am very into photography and film, I would like to figure out a way to manipulate the images on the computer screen through physical interaction with an arduino sensor. I am very interested in trying to manipulate color, movement, and scale though an outside sensor.

Interaction

I would like to incorporate either four or eight bi-flex sensors (http://www.imagesco.com/sensors/flex-sensor.html) to control the image on screen. I will insert these sensors into either one or two gloves, in the fingers, in order to make the sensors trigger. I would also like the images to be a sort of data flow. Hopefully, I will be able to cycle through data and/or pictures through means of the flex sensors, in order to move through the virtual space.

Function

Although my skills in processing/arduino coding are limited, I hope to be able to use the read and write functions in arduino in order to communicate with the flex sensors.

Visualization

diagrams and images to come!