INTERACTIVITY
Interactivity is the cornerstone of our shows. We set up controllers that the audience can use to make the lasers' movements change in entertaining ways, and provide a setting where visitors can move the lasers with their dance moves or vocalizations.
We have a video that gives an overview of all this on Youtube: Interactive Laser Fun.
Dances With Lasers
This is a video from FoolMoon 2019, showing a couple dancing in front of our motion sensor. The sensor sends the imagery to the laptop running the laser projector, hence to the projection surface.
We provide crowd management in the form of ropes and stanchions, and one of our team members provides directions.
Here is another view of this from our
2021 DLECTRICITY event.
Lunchboxing With Lasers
One of our first interactive art pieces, this features six vintage lunchboxen containing jeweled knobs that visitors can turn to control the speed and other aspects of laser lumia being projected.
Why lunchboxes? Because we needed something cheap and cheerful, and rugged enough to survive handling by kids under show conditions.
We adopted this as a show for a three-month stay at the MOXI museum of Science in Santa Barbara, CA in 2021. A photo gallery of this is HERE.
Laser Karaoke
Our latest interactive piece is Laser Karaoke, seen at left. Here Henry Birdseye and Wayne Gillis are running Laser Karaoke with young ladies at DLECTRICITY Sept. 24-25, 2021 at the Michigan Science Center in Detroit, MI.
The controllers in front of them are called "Radiators"; these project complex animated laser graphics onto the side of the museum. A microphone changes the patterns based on the output from the microphone.
We had people singing, telling jokes and making random noises into the mic to see how this would change the laser patterns.
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