aggreGate Ideation & Concept

description

aggreGate is a open ended system that collects large sets of data about how a group of people are behaving in an environment and wirelessly brings that data to an artist's fingertips via a tablet application where it can be viewed, filtered and manipulated in real time.  This "curated" data can then be used by the artist to drive a variety of feedback devices like lighting and visual installations, musical instruments or other electrical and mechanical devices.  aggreGate empowers artists to create rich interactive experiences by eliminating much of the complex programming work needed to run them.  It's flexible framework can be used with anything that uses data to drive it and facilitates dynamic, organic feedback between an artist, the audience and their environment.

The initial phases of the aggreGate project included multiple levels of ideation and concept development, encompassing the artist and audience interfaces as well as the overall system design and interactions.