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giving and receiving feedback

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For my project I worked on an electronic art piece to represent connection. My project would be in a household as a companion or in a museum or art gallery. For me the concept of connection is a set of interactions that you interpret to yourself to define the thing you are interacting with over time developing your own personal connection. The robot-like, wall-mounted, pod houses some electronics which gives it a way of sensing the world where it has different reactions based on how it's feeling, allowing others to interact with it. Others interact with it by getting further or closer to its eyes like a sensor at the front face of the pod where it reacts by displaying different colors on a strip of light and moving its tail.



This studio was a bit different than many that I had done. It was about taking just concepts and stories and making them into what is really an art piece. With this in mind for me, it was difficult because I am used to a challenge and then working on a solution. Due to this I grew in many ways developing my design process. First off, on iteration I had struggled coming up with ideas and had changed my concept three times over but producing iteration after iteration is what got me to my final goal. Next is feedback; this goes along with iteration because it is what guided me through the changes and taught me to try to find ways to incorporate the right amounts of feedback to keep the project going. Third is express which is one of the biggest skills to develop throughout this project. I needed to show story and emotion. Lastly, coding is something I'm used to but still love to learn. I was taught different ways I could go about doing my project just through code. Overall this was a very fulfilling studio in which I improved upon some key skills.