Bouncy castle

Space for autonomous imagination

Inflatable Installation

2020

Space for Autonomous Imagination is an inflatable structure designed to be deceiving, arbitrary, and confusing. Participants might try to climb the stairs, then plunge immediately upon first encountering this buoyant illusion. The structural elements provoke instability and loss of gravity as the body becomes a mass in sway.

Only by forgetting the laws that govern our world can visitors navigate the space. The figures and elements might seem familiar but different at the same time. It is best to keep the body in motion or let the mass fall into a wholly inanimate condition. The intent is to put visitors in a playful state by creating a chaotic, unbounded experience.

Presentations

2020 Heavy Duty Paper, Pitt Studio (Worcester, UK)

2020 Now Play This! In Somerset House (London, UK)

2019 Deptford X Arts Festival (London, UK)

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To enter the experience, visitors must look at the camera to cross the border and enter a new dominion. The captured image will determine the sound that accompanies each user's experience. An emotion-tracking system captures and processes the user's facial expressions. I created each audio file to represent the basic human emotions: neutral, anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. The model will correlate the dominant emotion assigned to a particular audio file with the participant's facial expression. The goal is to influence the experience on an affective level, creating a unique affective experience. The installation's sole purpose will be to evoke psychological curiosity in the user through an immersive, interactive experience.

When we can't experience the full spectrum of emotions in our everyday lives, we crave and seek them through art.