For my interactive touch piece, I wanted to highlight the beauty of bugs. A lot of people are grossed out or scared of bugs, but many of them are beautiful, gentle, living beings! Moths are always seen as pests, but are harmless and can be just as pretty as butterflies. I wanted to incorporate the use of live bugs in my piece, forcing the viewer to interact with the bugs in a positive way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The premise is a large glass jar containing moths and food for them to feed on, as I don’t want to transfer them between containers and risk injuring or frightening them any more than necessary. Around the inside of the jar will be 8 pairs of a positive and a negative strip of copper tape. The positive strips will be connected to the makey makey as inputs, and the negatives will all be connected together to ground. I will also create paper moths to attatch to the outside of the jar, making it more decorative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To interact with the piece, a viewer will use a flashlight to guide the moths to a specific place within the jar, causing the moth to step on both positive and negative, completing the circuit. This will play either a single flute note or a short phrase of a song- This leads me to have two main questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s a diagram with explanations of my concept:<\/p>\n\n\n\n For my interactive touch piece, I wanted to highlight the beauty of bugs. A lot of people are grossed out or scared of bugs, but many of them are beautiful, gentle, living beings! Moths are always seen as pests, but are harmless and can be just as pretty as butterflies. I wanted to incorporate the… <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/image0-scaled.jpg\")
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