Finishing the Emotional Vending Machine Program

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Sarah

Hi, Wonder Women —

I now have a fully working program on my laptop!  I also got a beautiful looking touch screen, and I’ll be setting up the hardware on Wednesday.  The shape of the screen will more a taller more narrow rectangle than what you see below.

Questions:

  • What do you think about the text?
  • Now that it’s more fleshed out, do you still like the 8-bit look for the text and do you find it readable?  Or do you think I should try a more modern look with the text to match the video quality?
  • Alternatively, I could treat the video to make it look more 8-bit, maybe just on the second screen
  • I am working on the image mask in the second screen – I think I’d like it to be a circle with just a close up of the face.  Thoughts?
  • Do you like the colors in the final screens?

In version 2.0, it would print the second screen, maybe as a sticker to wear! I don’t think I can do that this time around, but I’m going to investigate just in case

Meanwhile, do you think it would be creepy to take a screen grab of the second screen for my archives?  I could easily write this into the program.

By they way – the project is still called Emotional Vending Machine, but based on your suggestion to name her, her name is EmVeMa. 🙂

First and second screens:

Screen Shot 2015-03-24 at 1.04.14 AM    Screen Shot 2015-03-24 at 1.05.20 AM

Screen Shot 2015-03-24 at 1.30.01 AM   Screen Shot 2015-03-24 at 1.30.44 AM

 

Final screens:

Red screen for if you click “yes, thank you” ; blue if you try another and run out of solutions:

Screen Shot 2015-03-24 at 1.39.42 AM   Screen Shot 2015-03-24 at 1.41.58 AM

About Sarah

Sarah Nelson Wright is a Brooklyn based artist and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates interdisciplinary media projects about the urban experience that explore the changing city and investigate avenues for intervention. Her work encompasses video, installation, interactive sculpture and public art. Wright’s projects include THE NEWTOWN CREEK ARMADA (2012-2013) – a public art project exploring a New York City Superfund site; LOCATIONS & DISLOCATION (2008-2012) – a project chronicling displacement in the urban environment; and BROOKLYN MAKES (2009) – a site-specific video installation documenting manufacturing in North Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and festivals, including the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (New York), Mostra de Artes (Sao Paulo, Brazil), ACVic Center for Contemporary Arts (Vic, Spain), UnionDocs (NY), Conflux Festival (NY), Dumbo Arts Festival (NY) and Proteus Gowanus (NY). Wright holds a BA in American Studies from Yale and an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College. She has received grants from Brooklyn Arts Council, The Hudson River Foundation, Brooklyn Community Foundation & FEAST Brooklyn and has been an artist-in-residence at _gaia studio and the School of Making Thinking. She is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Marymount Manhattan College.
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