Drag A star 3.0: An audience participatory interactive art

James She, Kong Cheng Tan, Soon Xuan Yong

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Abstract

"Drag A Star 3.0" is a site-specific interactive art which setup in a café umbrella context. Audiences were meant to sit down and relax under the umbrella while interacting with this piece. With their smart phone, audience able to generate their own unique design star and send it to the star field. Audience could even embed their star with a wish, just like the old myth of wishing upon a shooting star. Stars that being generated are stored in the web server database, it is then being retrieved and visually display as a star in the night sky. Thus, every star tells a story. Audience could catch the shooting star by just performing a simple dragging gesture and then able to read at others wishes, or even reply to the wishes. This art piece is a combination of different technologies which involve projection mapping technique display, mobile application, web-based messaging system and web server database. Every action by the users is stored in the web server database and all these actions would determine the visual component of the star field. These participatory social interactions between the audiences enable the connection of audiences from the past, present and future.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMM 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Multimedia Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages556-558
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450349062
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Oct 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event25th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2017 - Mountain View, United States
Duration: 23 Oct 201727 Oct 2017

Publication series

NameMM 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Multimedia Conference

Conference

Conference25th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMountain View
Period23/10/1727/10/17

Keywords

  • Audience participatory
  • Interactive artworks
  • Shooting stars
  • Smartphones and mobile applications
  • Star field

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