By Madyson May
Faculty advisor: Dr. Jason Robinson
3:00-3:50pm, HCC 328
Taking inspiration from previous projection-based works such as Christopher Schardt’s 2019 “Nova” exhibit and Walt Disney World’s “Minnie and Mickey’s Runaway Railway,” Arcade TV aims to immerse audiences in a way that brings the digital to the physical plane. The project is a mixed-reality art piece that explores ideas of interactivity, digital dualism, and privacy through the use of video projectors, speakers, and queueing software. Users interact with Arcade TV through touching electric paint sensors, which sends a signal through the table to a circuit board to trigger the start of a new scene on the painted television. To highlight the impermanence of digital media, the contents of Arcade TV are flexible, as clips can be swapped out using projection-mapping software. Arcade TV is not only a demonstration of the limits of projection technology, but it also highlights the escalation in the privacy of information individuals are both willing to share online and are subject to participating in without their consent.
