Projects from Zhengxin Xi
name
Zhengxin Xi (inaxi)
location
http://people.artcenter.edu/~zxi
country
united states
university
Art Center College of Design
department
Media Design
university address
950 S Raymond Ave
91108 Pasadena
university country
united states
url
id
0011726
title
Between Gaga and Madonna
professor(s)
Anne Burdick
rank
-
tags
interaction design generative design
year of making
2010
project url
http://inasee.net/gagaMadonna.html
uploaded
2011-01-18 02:40:26
The project is an experimentation of an ambient display for participatory reading experience.
Topic-specific lyrics are excerpted from the songs by Lady Gaga and Madonna, triggered by the dancing movements of two participants that encounter the space. The interface uses the spatial relationship between the dancers to determine what type of content to be pulled out. The schema is designed in such way that the closer the participants are to each other, the greater the lyrics share in common under that specific topic, while a bigger distance between the participants reveals lyrics of different or opposed attitudes.
The intention behind this is a more dynamic and impersonated reading of the cultural shift through the songs of two American idols.
