Synthesis

Dear Pete, David, Nicole, (technical advisor Ozzie)

I would like Pete to be in charge of installations for WIP Dec 2 following my event design — (For the dramaturgy I’ll of course rely on experienced folks — Chris Z as well as Pete, Garth, Todd, Ed, David.)

For Dec 2, I would like monitors mounted in portrait on some walls in Stauffer and iStage: hence the name DOOR PORTALS, DoorPorts

BEHAVIOR

Each single-sided Door Portal has a camera facing out from its front.

In iStage: when you stand 20’ away from the Door Portal  you see live feed of the receptionist desk at Stauffer.   When there is noone present, the DoorPortal should show past people, faintly.

As you occlude the Door Portal (background subtract, use tml.jit.Rokeby), it turns into a mirror.

   As you walk toward this Door Portal, at 15' the mirror fades to live feed from another Door Portal B

At 10’ the live feed fades to live feed from kn Door Portal C

LOCATIONS, SIZES

(1) In iStage in the location that we discussed — next to the door to offices, flush with the floor.  Largest size.

(2) On a wall in Stauffer B, facing the reception desk  (in addition or instead of the display behind receptionist’s head.)

Cables must be hidden — we cannot have exposed cable in the receptionist area.  Let the Space committee take note.

(3) Mounted on an wall in the dark Commons of the BY.

All these should be PORTRAIT — no landscape, please — let’s avoid knee-jerk screenic response!   Bordered images are boring.

NICOLE, your idea for prototyping is very smart.   if you want, please feel free to make paper mockups — just 

ask Ozzie or Pete for dimensions of our monitors, cut paper to 1-1 scale, and bring some mock doors that we can pin to the walls in the BY and iStage.

Re. scale, I’m ok with the doors not human height — 1-1 body size is too literal (= boring).  Plus I want children-sized apparatus in our office spaces.  Our office spaces are all designed for 5-6’ tall people, nominally adults — this is socially sterile.

NOTE: I think we do NOT need a big screen on the foyer — it is too expensive and a waste of a monitor (unless CSI buys one :)  

For that Brickyard foyer, if people — e.g. Chris R — wants a porthole (≠ portal) then let’s put a pair of iPads one on each side of that foyer sub wall, and stream live video between them.

TIMETABLE (ideal)

Nov 15

prototypes delivered

Nov 21

bomb tested, 

Nov 24

Deployed for WIP event

(If is documentation day for LRR, then this is when we should invite Sarah H to send her team to shoot the Door Portal along with the best of LRR for Herberger (gratis!))

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Sha Xin Wei • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis

Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering • ASU

skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962

Founding Director, Topological Media Lab •  topologicalmedialab.net/

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