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Interactive installation

The Scribbler

Draw tiny creatures in mid-air, release them into a shared world, then conduct their movement by gesture.

Date
2014
Medium
Gesture tracking, drawing, generative animation
Role
Concept and development

About the project

The Scribbler turns drawing into a performative gesture. Visitors make small figures in the air, populate a digital environment with them, and then shift from creator to conductor as the creatures begin to move together.

A drawing is therefore not only an image but the beginning of a behaviour. The interaction moves from making individual forms to influencing a small collective.