proximity
Friday, June 15th, 2007“proximity” is a piece created by Alison Sant and Rick Johnson where Alison walks around the city with a vest embedded with proximity sensors and cameras. The cameras are turned on whenever someone enters a specified personal distance. The resulting tape is mostly black screens, interspersed with some short clips of people walking past. I was introduced to Alison and Rick by my good friend Stijn, who was going to help them out, but was off in Belgium for the summer. I created a new brain for this piece, which consists of an Atmel ATTiny26, a couple of Sharp IR rangers, and a relay. The nice thing about working on this project was that it has forced me to review a bit of electronics, and Rick and Alison are very nice people as well!