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Dr.
Laniter's Laboratory
by Maggie
Simpson
Student project, CCAC-FVP, Interface class, Fall 2002
Project
Description:
"One participant is allowed to enter the space at a time.
As the viewer enters a small room they become immersed in
the cinematic looking world of a mad scientist's laboratory.
A table sits in the center of the room, covered with surgical
instruments, gauze and an eyeball suspended in a glass medical
jar. As the viewer walks around the space the eyeball watches
and moves as it tracks their movement.
Dr. Laniter's Laboratory
examines the isolation of a single organ, the eyeball and
it's behavioral patterns. The project hopes to achieve simplicity
with mechanical elegance. It offers reflection by deconstructing
the sensory environment and emphasizing one human sensory
organ and it's interaction with the viewer. The viewer is
able to experience the peculiarity of a single organ left
to itself, starkly isolated from the complex human machine
of which it is more naturally a part. Casting this "character"
in a 1950's B movie re-animation environment, one feels an
ironic dialogue between a disembodied human eye and the cinematic
space." - Maggie Simpson
System:
Max/MSP/Jitter, Teleo
Servo Module, Teleo USB Translator, Teleo Power Module,
surveillance camera, hobby servo motor (Cirrus C60)
Testimonial:
"Originally I had ordered a servo driver kit on-line
and after I assembled the driver it failed to operate the
hobby servo motor. Don Day (professor for the Interface class)
and I sat down on numerous accounts trying to solve the problem
and fix the driver. After several attempts at changing the
crystal, the chip, etc, nothing worked. In Desperation Barney
Haynes (other teacher) begged MakingThings to allow me to
use their Beta version Teleo Servo Module. Making Things was
unbelievably helpful in finishing the beta version early and
allowing me to use it in my piece. Teleo allowed me to control
my servo without a single problem." -
Maggie Simpson
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