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So many choices!
Every person in class had to come up with a suggestion for the final project in Cyberarts class. Only a few in the end were chosen, to be one of the 7 or 8 pieces done in the end for the show.

Mine was a project I called "If I Could Turn Back Time" in which people would be able to manipulate some sort of interface in a room, which would in turn change what time it was in a panoramic video being projected on the walls around the user. My piece did make it to round 3, but didn't get chosen in the end.

There were a lot of other good project ideas as well. There were quite a few involving the wii, and a couple about emotions, and an above average amount that dealt with weather. We spent the entire class choosing which we liked, 3 times. I could've chosen the one I wanted to be in the first time.

The lightning project was incredibly popular, I'm pretty sure everyone put their little dot sticker on there at one point or another, I personally wasn't that interested in it. Instead, I liked the one that dealt with using the wii to create graffiti. It just so happened the week earlier we had been asked to write a short report on a digital artwork or exhibition and I had done mine on a project called L.A.S.E.R. Tag, which was a setup used to use a laser and a projector to write light graffiti on the sides of skyscrapers. My interest was piqued, creating and immediately projecting art that anyone could do sounded interesting, and I thought I might be able to do that with the wii graffiti project. So that's the one I chose.



Problem was, it turned out that the only other people who wanted to do this project as well were also art students. No computer science people to be had. The professors tried to move someone into our group, but he wouldn't be moved. Luckily, thanks to my research on L.A.S.E.R. Tag, I found out that the software they had developed was open source, and downloadable to Mac and PC. The RA for the class has also decided to give us help where we need it technically.

I'm pretty excited about this. At the very least we can use it to do what Graffiti Research Lab did with L.A.S.E.R. Tag. I'm hoping we can expand on it though, at the moment we're thinking about using it to make a giant projected coloring book.