Tech-Art

I was selected to participate in Tech-Art during my undergraduate at University of Waterloo. This role greatly contributes to my ability to work with interdisciplinary groups, manage teams and execute ideas from start to end. I worked alongside other disciplinary members, my team was comprised of Fine Arts, Engineer and Knowledge Integration majors.

In both projects, I played the role of Artistic Lead. My responsibilities included conceptualizing the initial project with an intent, designing mock-ups, creating test drafts and putting it together. I oversaw the production of our installation, ensuring the integrity of the aesthetics stayed relevant to the theme of the piece.

This collaboration forced us to focus greatly on user-experience. Pieces were created with the purpose to be displayed at Communitech Data Hub Corporate Office, Waterloo, ON.

Here you can view my collaborative installations.

STOP AND SMELL THE FLOWERS

As viewers come closer to the sculpture the flowers wilt toward them due to motion sensor servos. There is a grace about flowers that are healthy, bringing happiness and joy to our day. When you return to those same flowers as they wilt, commenting on the human impact to global warming and depleting nature...

WHAT'S THE POINT?

This interactive installation represents a cycle of emotional self-defense. As viewers approach the piece with curiosity, they are stopped and pushed back by the emerging spikes. The spikes and shifting internal structure represent the complex mechanisms behind defensive responses. They are veiled, concealed, behind our outward facade. What results is an unfulfilling and tiring cycle of expecting, responding, and reacting that leaves us needing the very thing we are pushing away: closeness and interaction.