My aim was to create an artwork that responded to the presence of the viewer, and I wanted to mimic the way in which social media keeps people hooked.
So my project was going to show some content on a screen, and every time the viewer starts to move away to look at something else, I wanted my artwork to make some sort of a sound and refresh the content in an attempt to lure the viewer back.
The end result was Catatonic, which I showed as a prototype at Cambridge MakeSpace Open Studio in July.
I thought that this would be a relatively straightforward first project that uses a motion sensor to detect presence and then trigger a response accordingly, but it turned out to be surprisingly difficult to achieve. Read on to find out how I got on.
Catatonic at Cambridge Makespace
