Exploring Space

Exploring Space is an interactive screen print designed to entertain children in spaces where they would be waiting, bored and otherwise given a phone or tablet to entertain them. It incorporates analogue design with sensory play, sound and animation into a poster that challenges what should and can exist within advertising spaces and acts as a way to encourage a child to look up and engage in a more tactile, lifelike processes. My work brings digital media through sound design and animation, into a physical space via a printed, analogue poster in an attempt to break down some of the stigmas surrounding digital media; primarily that it cannot be understood and used by everyone. The print incorporated BareConductive, an electro-conductive ink that is able to sense touch. The ink is connected, behind the print, to an Arduino which processes each paint sensor. Hand drawn animations are connected to each input via processing and are triggered by the user’s touch. The project uses code and projection mapping software to ensure that each animation is projected onto a specific location on the print.