Hi, here are my three concepts for my light art project. Feel free to take a look at them and leave your comments!

1. Breath visualizer

The breath visualizer is basically a shirt covered by EL wires that glow along with my breaths. This installation is made up of two parts: the facemask with a sensor inside and the shirt with EL wire. For the sensor and EL wire, I plan to use an EL wire sound-activated pocket inverter, which you can find in Adafruit. The sensor is surprisingly small, which could probably be fit in a larger gas mask.

2. Light painting with a cat

Here I am following a similar approach with wearable EL wire, but in this case, I want to put them on cat clothing.

And I can probably move the cat around with a cat toy or laser pointer in a dark environment and create some light painting pictures made by a cat. The major challenge of this project is everything can fall apart at the last minute when the cat just doesn’t feel like wearing the light suit and running around. Also bringing a cat to the outer wild at night can be a bad idea.

3. Aquatic plant aquarium

People use fake aquarium plants to please their fish. But no one has ever used fake fish to please their aquatic plants.

As a result, I propose the aquatic plant aquarium — a tank with actual plants and fake fish animation on the back. The animation comes from a screen that can either be LED or an actual screen depending on what type of aesthetic I want to go for. But I could imagine both of them work fairly well.

LED animation projecting through a drawing could also work really well.

My Artist questions:

Which one of the concepts do you think is the best?

Is there any good way to build up small-scale testing pieces for them?