The Hourglass
The hourglass portion of the narrative is still under development. The hourglass bridges the fully digital experience of the collages (digital projection interfaced through computer devices and updated via database) with the very analog experience of the cabinet (knocking physically on the object, the mechanical opening of drawers). It accomplishes this by mediating a digital experience--receiving a phone call--through the physical act of turning an hourglass.
Controlling Linear Medium Progression
When viewers interact with the collages and explore the entirety of that narrative, they darken with an icon of an hourglass. If viewers go to the hourglass beforehand without exploring anything of the collages, when viewed through their mobile device the augmented art directs them back to the collages.
Breaking the Fourth Wall With Phonecalls
The hourglass is modified so that there is a symbol on each side. When the viewer turns the hourglass over, it activates a server event that calls their phone through the Tropo service. A character then narratives a message to them as if on an answering machine, interrupted by a loud knocking on their door in the background.
The knocking pattern determines which object viewers are given access to in the last part of the installation. It is determined partly by the order in which they read the pieces of narrative through their interactions with the collages. When viewers look at the hourglass after receiving their call, it directs them to the last section of the narrative: the cabinet.
The hourglass portion of the narrative is still under development. The hourglass bridges the fully digital experience of the collages (digital projection interfaced through computer devices and updated via database) with the very analog experience of the cabinet (knocking physically on the object, the mechanical opening of drawers). It accomplishes this by mediating a digital experience--receiving a phone call--through the physical act of turning an hourglass.
Controlling Linear Medium Progression
When viewers interact with the collages and explore the entirety of that narrative, they darken with an icon of an hourglass. If viewers go to the hourglass beforehand without exploring anything of the collages, when viewed through their mobile device the augmented art directs them back to the collages.
Breaking the Fourth Wall With Phonecalls
The hourglass is modified so that there is a symbol on each side. When the viewer turns the hourglass over, it activates a server event that calls their phone through the Tropo service. A character then narratives a message to them as if on an answering machine, interrupted by a loud knocking on their door in the background.
The knocking pattern determines which object viewers are given access to in the last part of the installation. It is determined partly by the order in which they read the pieces of narrative through their interactions with the collages. When viewers look at the hourglass after receiving their call, it directs them to the last section of the narrative: the cabinet.