This is a personal art project by Whitney Xu and Leon Santen.
The interactive art installation was displayed at the campus-wide exposition at Olin College of Engineering in December 2019. The project aimed to create a magical experience for children with the means of audio-visual art and engineering.
Watch the jellyfish magically turn-on when someone crawls inside the fish and sees the glowing light.
Paint yourself and the jellyfish with UV-paint. All decorations on the jellyfish were done by other students and visitors.
The glowing fish's uvula senses if you enter the fish, and you will start hearing piano sounds amid all the wave sounds in the room.
Videos of the Installation and a Small UV-Paint Party
Watch the following video to get an impression of what it was like to approach the jellyfish and crawl into the fish while someone else was inside the fish (and therewith made the jellyfish glow). The sound in the video was used during the exposition as shown.
The following video shows a small UV-paint party while we were still working on the installation.
Behind the Scenes
We built the jellyfish-light and the crawl-into fish in two weeks at the end of our fall semester 2019 for the Fall 2019 Exposition at Olin College of Engineering and an independent project at Wellesley College. We spent a lot of time on specifying our artistic vision, planning, and researching prior to the two weeks of construction.
Thank you for your interest!
The artwork, mechanical/electrical construction, and sounds/music were all done by Whitney Xu and Leon Santen.
Credits:
Whitney Xu and Leon Santen