Konstanz, FH, Diplomarb., 2004.

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Inhabitance is a Digital Interactive Installation employing the use of projection design, sound design, infrared depth mapping, and complex programming in the languages Processing and Java, in order to create an experiential work that leaves a lasting impact on both participants and the work itself. At it’s core, Inhabitance is about spatial and sensory presence. Taking distinct inspiration from other interactive projection works such as Snow Fall (2009) by Italian media studio FUSE°, and Text Rain (1995) by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv, Inhabitance encourages participants to allow the boundary between their physical bodies and digital representations to blur. Participants who enter the active area of the installation are greeted with a white silhouette of themselves in a sea of letters. These letters, as they will soon discover, are not stationary. They react and interact with the movements made within the active area of the installation. Similarly to how participants in Text Rain soon begin to experiment with the interaction with the text, those in Inhabitance begin to “play” and test the rules of this newfound sensory environment. However, there is one more layer of interaction to be discovered. As soon as a letter moves, it creates a sound. Another is added to the space when another letter is moved. Each interactive object on the screen fills the space with sound, allowing participants to orchestrate their own accompaniment to the space. As those inside come to allow the boundary between physical and digital to blur, they now also begin the process of blurring the boundary between sight and sound. Reminiscent of Synesthesia (the condition where one sense triggers the experience of a different sense, such as sound triggering a sense of touch), the blurring of senses allows participants to experience a sense of “diminished consciousness of self”, and create an audiovisual experience totally unique to them. These letters and sounds will continue long after the participants have left the space, allowing messages, chords, or any other lasting impression to be passed onto those that will come next. Each new participant’s experience is a fully unique version, informed by those that have come before. “Under the hood” of Inhabitance is a complex marriage of software and hardware. Kinect cameras create an accurate depth map of the space, and feed their findings directly into Processing. Processing, with the help of libraries crafted by Daniel Schiffman, takes the Kinect information and uses that to draw a silhouette of any participants in a specific range. The letters and sounds are also handled by Processing, but without the use of a pre-built library. The letter objects, sonic interaction, and collision have all been coded by hand and are specific to the use-case of Inhabitance. / Theater / Film and Media Arts / Accompanied by two files: 1) Spratlin-Thesis-2023.pdf, 2) Inhabitance.zip / Accompanied by two files: 1) Spratlin-Thesis-2023.pdf, 2) Inhabitance.zip

This thesis investigates the lighting design theory Light Inside Out, which is the technique of shaping light toward a creation of lighting installation in performance utilizing a lighting installation in performance. It analyzes the differences between two lighting methods: 1) Illuminating a performance by theatrical lighting fixtures from outside the performance space and 2) Illuminating a performance with onstage lighting installations. Examples of lighting installation work done by several celebrated artists are also examined in order to demonstrate the unique creative advantage of using lighting installation in performance. Finally, a presentation of my design process for developing lighting installations for past works as well as my most recently developed designs for “ The Difficulty of Crossing a Field” and “Sunyata: Transfigurations in Silk” are included along with pertinent supporting materials, lighting installation process photos, and production photos. / text

My master essay consists of two sections: the first part is explanatory and contextualizes my art; the second part is formed as a fictitious letter to the chinese mosquito repellent millionaire Mr Li, written in the voice of a naive, uncontrolled and neurotic person, full of desire. The contextualization is a self-reflection and deals with concepts such as utopia, desire, failure, the pathetic and identity / [I examensarbetet ingår utställningen "The businessman, the mosquito and the dragon":] To present my obsession with chinoiserie, I worked as an investigator through a documentary-filmmaker approach, and also as an utopist for a dreamt world which is actually born in my upsidedown mind. The films are presented in a spatial installation in the form of a labyrinth. Material/Teknik/Längd på video: Installation/Mixed media/dokumentärfilm ca 40 min. / <p>Examensarbetet består av en skriftlig del och en gestaltande del. </p>

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https://vimeo.com/142533096&lt;/p Every time I am on an elevator or an airplane there is always someone right behind me, or beside me, that is coughing or sneezing. That is implied in the film with the use of, among other sounds, a sneeze, that speaks about the uncontrollable. So there are definitely contradictions with these railings, as they are an idea of a support structure that in practice doesn’t really work. And this recurs in the video work where you’re trying to clean a piece of acrylic glass which, in itself, is an impossible task. As soon as you try to clean it you get marks on it. It’s an unprotected surface as soon as you pull off the plastic film and even if you leave it on when the pane is scratched marks build up under it. / SIX MINUTES OF FRESHNESS

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This is a written defense to accompany the MFA Thesis Exhibition You’re Gonna Be Ok, an installation encompassing video, and other sensory components. This defense provides background for the artist’s motivation to make this work, along with a theoretical framework used to construct the installation. Accompanying photos, video, and PowerPoint are also included to give reference and documentation of the installation event.

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