I started thinking I’d just project pretty things on an ugly surface, and that’d be fun, but it was quickly brought to my attention that there was no content there. That, of course, is a big issue with projections — can’t approach this from a tech-first-content-later angle, as the whole thing hinges on the content.I had initally settled on moving ahead with projected text, with text swimming on the poles of the scaffold, kinda turning the structure into a news ticker. However, the more I tinkered, the more corny the concept became, and the more I started thinking about characters and people.
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PROJECTED PARANOIA
project stereotypical “thug” and homeless person, maybe a little girl with pigtails and and balloons. Symbolizes our fearsand paranoias, worries and failures, and child-like joy and serendipity.
these projections can follow people as they walk
is it better if text clouds follow people?
text clouds shaped (made out of phrases of fear or headlines of crime) that look like people?
banksy-style, they could either be real or move as cutouts
highlighting people’s fear of un-lit areas and how some people wont’ walk under scaffolding
these thugs only live within the confines of the sidewalk skirt — they don’t go beyond that
PRO: Explores the paranoia issue really, really well. images only need to flicker on for a second
CONS: Might be hard to have things follow people, might suck.
Perhaps: Audio? People whispering, muttering, snickering?
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Jenny Holzer:
Krzysztof Wodiczko
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