Prismatic Playground
Year
Spring 2024
Year
Spring 2025
Role
Unity Prototyping
Art Direction
Done in collaboration with Scout Clowdus
Client
Frist Art Museum
Brand
Role
Umbro
Art Direction
3d Rendering
Graphic Design
How Can Movement Inspire Creation?
Activating the Frist’s Martin ArtQuest
Prismatic Playground is an activation of the Frist’s transformative media space. It serves to provide an interactive experience to the patrons of the museum, primarily focusing on children coming into the space.
The Beautiful Magic of Bubbles
After creating a moodboard built around pastel and playful colors, we decided to move forward with a motif surrounding the whimsy of playing with bubbles. We chose this direction in large part because we thought there was something unique and wonder-inducing about bubbles, both in their creation and destruction.
The Infectious Inspiration of Making Something New
The Human Bubble Wand
Movement was a key proponent of this exhibition space, with the Kinect technology we were given having both immense and limited capabilities. Working from those limitations, along with the motif of bubble creation, the natural outcome was to make each user a human bubble wand, leaving swarms of bubbles flowing as they move across the space.
Pulling From Our Strengths
When creating the experience, my project partner, Scout, took up a lot of the illustrating and building the visual assets for the project. Her immense illustrative skills were able to come hand in hand with my ability to work with complex digital systems as I built out the Unity file to create a reactive space to integrate the Kinect input. It all came together in a beautifully simple yet impactful use of the interactive media space.
