Its been a busy week for the two of us as we settle in to the Studio and get back in to the swing of working together (granted, it has only been a matter of months since we left uni, but that is a lot of down time. . .) We have been reworking our initial ideas and now have two projects which we will be talking about developing for the duration of our residency, with a view to using the Encounters Festival as a platform to display them.
These ideas are works in progress..be kind.
The Wishing Well will allow visitors to send and receive ‘wish’ messages through text message, the most recent additions to the Well will rise to the top, users will be able to mix up the contents by stirring the top of the well, allowing other wishes to float to the surface. Please click on the image below for more detail.
Diagram of Wishing Well Project
Branching Narratives will allow users to contribute small segments of stories to our narrative tree. Each of these segments will be represented as a leaf on the tree. Wed aim to combine entries from a variety of sources such as, internet searches, text messages in addition to a touch screen interface that George has been developing, it will be positioned nearby the projection of the growing tree.
Diagram of Branching Narratives Project
George and I thought of the Seeds of these two ideas on a walk home last week, we had spent all evening in the studio wracking our brains as to what sort of project we wanted to make. Although we both produced ‘After We Come and Go’ our individual interests had not yet, in our mutual agreement, combined fully to create a piece that is representative of our collaborative creative practice. Take this picture for example;
first prototype
What we have here is a screen shot of an application that George made in Flash this week to test linking and branching from text inputs (click the image to enlarge). Firstly, creating an app like this would have been inconceivable this time last year, in addition, we would not have been as aware of the importance of prototyping (or indeed our proposed idea). The project proposals and application that we have written this week show a development in our practice, away from that preliminary period of learning to a stage where we can apply what we gained from ‘After We Come And Go’ technically and focus on communication, functionality and usability.
