Thesis week #1

I've decided that my thesis exhibition will be an interactive piece (and I'm set on making a musical keyboard that projects visual images as you play it but we'll see how that goes). In fact, after doing some research into interactive design, I'm beginning to like the idea of becoming an interactive designer. As I think about it interactive media is something that I've always been interested in but didn't know it. When I was younger it was video game design, creating characters and environments or writing up some code for some well known video game company. Through my three years of college I felt drawn towards web design especially the kind where the user can interact with the web site.

It was the idea of immersion. A painting can be beautiful but in the end its a static image. You can walk around and even touch a sculpture but it can't respond. That's what draws me to interactive design because you can set up a program to respond to your actions or create an animation that can be both static and in motion. Although I don't know how I'll go about doing it I can see myself working in this media.

As for my project I've looked around and this video (that I've found so far) best describes what I'm trying to accomplish: Clavilux 2000