For the final project, I’ll be creating a machine that prints out the space over time. Using Kinect, each image captured over time will be saved in the database, divided up by the depth of the object. Images will be processed to only have the object contours for simplicity. The user then can press the button to print out what Kinect has been seeing since the past till the moment the button was pressed in one image with a timestamp. The prints this machine will provide will be in a form of generative collage in a sense that objects to be selected for each depth would be chosen at random among the collection.
In terms of where this project would live, I imagine this machine to be placed at a high-traffic public location like a subway station. In these public spaces, many people with diverse range of belongings travel across the same space over different time. Capturing what use to be there over different period of time in one frame and delivering it on a physical paper upon anyone’s request would give a greater perspective to the audience on how diverse of the crowd and objects we’re sharing the common space with.