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Brendan Matkin

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WINGED

WINGED is an interactive installation made for the Fight For Beauty exhibit by Westbank. As a visitor approaches the front, the Westbank 'W' is revealed. When they move side to side, the curve of the reflections shifts. This piece doesn't have a screen - it is physically moving neon inside an infinity mirror with privacy film on the front. I worked on this as part of my role at Tangible.

I did R&D, interaction design, electronics, and programming on this project. I prototyped the behaviour and evaluated several potential sensing technologies. I wrote a simple Processing app to interpret Kinect data. The computer sends data to a microcontroller, which adjusts the opacity of the privacy film and controls the electric actuator to move the back mirror. 

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