Interactive Presentation

This week we were asked to create an interactive piece that demonstrated our area of interest for this project. For this, I decided to focus on the idea of product lifespan. I was interested in making a series of experimental pieces where as the user rolled over certain elements, they would begin to fade away; reminiscent of how we interact with everyday objects their lifespan is lowered as we use items. For example a lightbulb. As the user then rolls over the element for a second time it re-appears; resembling how we have to replenish our objects when they break. I feel that for this piece I perhaps went too abstract; without an explanation the pieces wouldn't make much sense. However, I was really interested in the interactivity and how the relationship between consumer and the replenishment of products. At the end of the interactive pieces I started thinking about the idea of some form of 'obsolete community' where users could interact with one another and discuss obsolete products and how they could be fixed.