Blog 8

The person that I chose was Mike Tucker who presented during the 2019 Eyeo Festival. He is an artist that is involved in virtual reality and creating different ways of perceiving our surroundings. He has done work for  a good amount of big and small companies, some of which include Apple, Kanye’s video game, and Radiohead. His work is interesting because it allows people to experience art by being part of it. In one of his projects he has people touch and interact with the world and it creates a string of music notes which then play. These notes continue to exist but move around like real animals in an environment. 6DofControl is another project that demonstrates the way people interact with their surroundings and as a result of certain actions a collection of sounds would be played in the user’s ears. From looking into his work it seems that his biggest interests lie within VR and music, how do we make things that change based on the way we interact with them or their surroundings. What then do these changes make us do as a result, how would a distorted song make us react to a certain action? The videos of his work are necessary in order to understand because what he makes is so sensory based.