Installation Design: analogRead(dance)

For course Computational Design II: Time, taught by Panagiotis Michalatos at the Harvard GSD (2019)

analogRead(dance) is an installation designed by Lins Derry, Jackson Howell, and Suleiman Alhadidi. The installation acts as a computational function that both accepts and returns the variable type “dance”. Dancer one improvises a stepping pattern on the wood stage that affects the visual output to which dancer two responds. Mediating this relationship are piezo sensors and a video projector.

Electronics Design

Designed a printed circuit board with two piezo sensors for measuring floor vibrations. Programmed serial communication between Arduino and Processing IDEs. Adhered piezo sensors to the triangular wood stage where performer one danced.

(Eagle, Arduino, SRP milling machine)

Visual Design

Programmed signal analysis and visualization in Processing for the video projection. Passed piezo data as parameters for the locations and widths of the projected white lines. Used mylar as a secondary “projector” to create the final visual output on the opposite facing wall where performer two danced.

(Arduino, Processing, Video Projection)