FITC Toronto 2015

2015-04-12 00:00:00 2015-04-15 00:00:00 America/Toronto FITC Toronto 2015 A three-day professional celebration of the best the world has to offer in design, web development, media and innovation in creative technologies. Toronto FITC Toronto

Overview

Sophi will tell the story of being handed 75 air solenoids and some other hardware totalling about $1000 for free. What else could there be to do, but buy a compressor and build an art piece?

Sophi will take the audience through the concept of the piece and talk about designing and building a work of art using solenoids, balloons and music.

She will also discuss some other recent projects, including one with Oculus Rift and possibly a snow machine.

Objective

This presentation will demystify the big components used in props and large installations.

Five things audience members will learn

  1. About hardware.
  2. About conceptualizing art installations.
  3. Oculus Rift ideas for adding external stimuli.
  4. About being playful when designing for physical audiences.
  5. Differences between designing for screens and for physical audiences.