This robotic worm moves around and bows at who ever gets close to it. The piece was received by the audience as a strange pet. No artificial intelligence was involved, but people grew attached to the unpredictable personality, controlled by the unpredictable factors in my camera vision software. The robot was a model for a larger installation entitled 'garden of lovers' in which a 5x5 grid of life-size robotic worms would dance together in response to who ever was walking around amongst them. This was a proposal (which i am still looking for) and this single interactive prototype.
I built for "Interactive Multimedia" in the UCLA Hypermedia Studio, within the dept. of FilmTV, under the instruction of Jeff Burke, Jason Brush, and Fabian Wagmeister.
Spatial video game style model of the installation, for Windows
Alone
Responding
Naked