Think I should start documenting my project for the Mixed Reality module as I’ve already made a considerable amount of progress so far.

a) Mixed Reality Platforms (50%) Delivered by Chris Speed

‘Experience is a system and consequently the objective world is constructed through the imposition of cultural categories on reality. Perception thus takes place through a mediating value-framework which differentiates the facticity of the environment in which one lives’, (Shields, 1991:32).

This is a site based project with that will be involve students working together in small groups, participants will design collaborative projects that share mixed reality platforms combining both physical (non-digital) and virtual (digital) materials.

It is anticipated that through an analysis of the site that the teams are given you will be expected to develop work in response to its environmental, technical, architectural and social properties. Students will be encouraged to use mobile and locative media where relevant to extend the potential dialogue with the geographical context.

The work represents the DAT 2nd Year Show for 2007/8, and teams will have to work together to ensure that a show team is able to put together appropriate organising and marketing to support such an event.

In the past this option has involved a collaboration with students from Dartington College for Arts and you can see the nature of this collaboration here…

My idea involves an online and offline based medium similar to that of the GroupHug.Us website where anonymously people can confess whatever guilty thoughts they have on their mind. I thought it would be an interesting idea to bring it to an offline and public situation where people can text in their confessions, which would then be displayed on a projection.
Anyone will be able to text in their confession or guilty secret to a specific number which will then be picked up by my Twitter account and then into it’s xml feed from the Twitter API. This will then be parsed into flash and dynamically updated each time a new text is sent in. I have integrated the idea of the 7 deadly sins, where I have created associated keywords for each sin into an array which will be picked up each time a new text is sent in.

At the moment the backend is pretty much finished, I just need to work on a pretty looking frontend and get some projection resolutions found out. Here’s where I am so far with some test keywords. The values at the bottom represent how many keywords have been parsed in, updating each time a new text is sent in.

Going to have a look at topologies and some other forms of data representation that will create some sort of body for my frontend. Prototype to be finished for next Tuesday, exhibition the week after!