Using artificial intelligence, ʻColour and the Machineʼ is an installation that converts colour into music. The audience was invited to come and play with colourful blocks and inflatables to manipulate the playback of bespoke music made for the Bristol Beacon.
This is a research and development project investigating two points of view included in our research question, one regarding the human–object/design interaction and the other the human-music and software interaction: How people act/interact differently depending on the different type of objects and how they handle these objects once they realize they manipulate music, in order to interact with it or control it. The participants become part of the experience themselves, through the colour of their clothes which will also interact with the machine vision, generating an even more personalised outcome.
As an immersive artist I was excited to experiment and explore different avenues in order to draw conclusions and result in what triggers the most fruitful human-experience interaction in conjunction with virtual machines.
