Three Philosophers

Three Philosophers is an interactive installation consisting of three life-sized wooden sculptures that produce different audio-visual effects. Each sculpture has its own Arduino-based interface that enables it to respond to the user's behaviors (cranking a handle, making proximate sound, touching the string). Diverse old and obsolete media and technologies, collected through the local reuse stores, such as vinyl records, computer fans, disco-ball and old books, are attached to the sculptures, and these attached components move and light up by interacting with the user's behaviors. Our goal of presenting this installation to the NIME community is to explain and show how we can design creative computational artifacts through more improvisational, event-based, and frugal ways.