Experiments in high-energy awesome

October 9th, 2008 | Work in Progress | Eric Gradman | No comments

My current art piece/science fair project/experiment in high-energy awesome, as explained to Nightshade via IM.

2:05:19 PM Eric Gradman: two opponents face off over a table. there is an image projected on the table by a projector mounted overhead. the image features “bubbles” that are drifting around. players interact with the bubbles using their shadows. however the degree to which a given player’s shadow couples to the bubbles is a function of their brain’s beta signature, as read by an EEG (OCZ NIA)
2:05:59 PM Eric Gradman: each player is bathed in light from an overhead LED panel. if you’re fucking up, you’re bathed in red light. else blue.
2:06:35 PM Nightshade: hahaha
2:06:38 PM Eric Gradman: There’s really no rhyme or reason to how this particular configuration came about. Actually, it was going to be two separate projects which I slammed together out of sheer laziness.
2:07:03 PM Eric Gradman: And then gave myself the artificial deadline of next Thursday, just to keep things interesting.