Installation: TNEE
Project Type: Physical installation + website
Role: User experience designer, technical lead
Tasks: Lead project, write functional and technical specification, research technology.
Total Nowhere Emotion Expansion (online verision)
Overview:
Created for Brisbane Festival 2009, Total Nowhere Emotion Expansion (TNEE) was an offline and online exhibition gallery.
For the duration of the Festival, TNEE was to be made available online via the website and offline in a mobile media art gallery – which was a converted semi-trailer filled with computers and projectors.
The exhibition gallery featured works from 9 artists which scrolled horizontally to showcase each piece.
Process:
For this project I could build on my existing experience with physical installations from Pook.
Users experienced the installation through a keyboard and mouse connected directly to a laptop and projector creating a one-to-one relationship between the user and the artwork.
Interaction with the installation was predominately conducted with intuitive mouse gestures such as hovering on the left and right edges of the screen to reveal more content.
I needed to do some additional research into the design of kiosks to gain an understanding of conventions and standards – such as preventing unauthorised access e.g. to hard disks, other applications.
As the installation was mobile and a network would be difficult to establish at the on-site. We threw around ideas of obtaining cellular Internet connections but it was too costly.
One works relied on the use of Internet browser functionality, we created a ‘faux-browser’ which simulated a real browser.
Looks just like a browser in Windows XP doesn't it?
Bump in occurred one day prior to the launch and it was great to set the project up and running installed in the truck and in-situ at it’s first location! 
TNEE offline and in-situ in the converted semi-trailer!
Users using the keyboard + mouse in front of the projection screens.