An interactive media installation uses a Microsoft Kinect unit, Epson projector and studio monitors to allow users to manipulate audio and video content by pushing a stretched sheet of spandex. Firewall, created by Mike Allison and Aaron Sherwood, was based on a performance piece that will premiere in June 2013 and contains a scene where dancers press into the spandex with the audience facing the other side.
The Kinect unit measures the
average depth of the spandex
from the wooden mounting frame and
visual react to the area
being pressed.
An algorithm created with
Max software controls music so
it slows down, speeds up and
gets louder or softer, depending
on the pressure placed on the spandex.