Ball State University students and Muncie community members will combine efforts Sunday to create personalized pieces of interactive art.
Using the exhibit "Engaging Technology: A History and Future of Intermedia," patrons of the museum will be able to create their own art using three programs made by Ball State students.
Senior Nick Johnson, a music technology major, made an installation piece called "Crazy Cubes" which will take an image and separate it into cubes that will move based on noise input into a microphone.
"As soon as someone steps in front of the camera, the cubes kind of go crazy and are not really in a form," Johnson said. "But as soon as someone speaks into the microphone and hits a certain pitch, the cubes go into form."
Johnson was one of three students who created programs for "Family Day: interActivity".
Senior Carrie Arnold, a music technology major, made "Virtual Finger Painting," a program that allows children to finger paint without the mess. Using colored gloves, children can paint on the screen, John Fillwalk, associate professor of art, said.
Joe Hebert, music technology major, made the third student-initiated project, "Voice Coloring," which allows participants to change the color of pictures based on the pitch of the noise that goes into a microphone, Fillwalk said.
"Family Day is really kind of the under-the-hood intersection of art and technology," Fillwalk said.
Hebert and Johnson made their projects for an art class Fillwalk teaches.
"It was just kind of an idea," Johnson said. "And then I started to learn the program and integrate things, and it just kind of snowballed."
After participants make the art at the museum, they can download their works from the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts and Animation Web site, digitalintermedia.org, and print them off at home.
"That way they have a little take-away," Fillwalk said.
A performance from Jesse Allsion, instructor of music theory, and his wife Noelle Allison will conclude the day of activities. The two will use the original interactive art exhibit as part of a performance of "Messa di Voce."
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