rvtr – Nervous Ether Operation
From my understanding, this project attempts to materialize the intangible. In this specific instance, it interprets weather data of air pressure and wind speeds as well as local sensor responses and inflates and deflates.
Ambient Orb
The Ambient Orb displays and allows the viewer to understand how much energy is being used and how much demand is being required of the object that the orb is connected to.
Sherif Abdelmohsen, Ellen Yi-Luen Do – Energy Puppet
A project that once again, displays the amount of demand that an appliance is connected to, however this project uses a much more disruptive signal when the appliance is in heavy demand. It emits loud noises and its arms swivel violently. Sadly, there was no video documentation of this project.
Click to access SID-Energy-Puppet.pdf
The relevance of these projects is that they all begin to use data received from an outside source and display/make it known to the viewer what is going on internally. Whether the data is something that the user experiences, like rvtr uses in their Nervous Ether Operation, or whether it is data that is collected from the amount of power an appliance is using.
Reactive Spaces and Media Architecture 