LIcap

I speak of LIcap (lahy-kæp) because of Mocap (Motion Capture). This other version I call LIcap is for Life Capture. The idea is to harness several sensors that will read different aspects of life as we live in it and feed the information through the arduino lillypad. These values would be then converted on a computer to create a new visualization and also an audio track to play along with it. This would be a new experience of life. In essence taking an organic thing that life is and converting it to be mechanical. And then through these mechanical means, making it organic again, but on screen and through speakers. The formulas used would be shifted at random to make it more organic and flowing as if to recreate a living version of the living world, though through inorganic means. We hope to house the circuitry on a jacket that one can put on and take off, with lillypad this will be possible.

This mocap video is inspiring, but isn't actually what we were thinking of as a visualization.

Mocap:

Visualizations of music (we would be replacing the music with values/data from the sensors to create a visual and audio hopefully, it may not be music but it'll be something that it relational to life in a digital or emotional sense):

I will be writing more about this topic as the project progresses of course. I really wanted this project to be more art related than design related this time. I feel like this will be a very nice marriage of all parts, art, design, and engineering.