User Test Setup:

Question for group: based on this image, where in a room do you imagine it installed? How does imagining it in different situations or relations to you change your perception of it?

Observe - Analyze - Interpret

Class Feedback

Feedback Summary

Overall Impressions:

• The piece is widely seen as a web, network, or nerve system.
• The lights/animation suggest
  • energy
  • neural activity
  • data flow
  • social/media networks
  • mycelium connections.
• Many noticed the organic, alive, and almost magical feeling created by the different colors and movements of light.
• thick yarn and dark aesthetic.
• gothic or cerebral.
• Observations included that the lights emerge from nodes, fan outward, and seem to follow complex, intentional patterns (some compared it to algorithms like Dijkstra's or traveling salesman).
• People are curious about:
  • The meaning of the different colors and types of movements (dots vs lines).
  • Whether it's about brain power, community, social commentary, or data connectivity.
  • The scale (small and intricate vs large and immersive) and modularity (are there multiple parts??)

Installation Ideas:

• Many imagine it large and immersive. something you crawl through, walk across, or lie under.
• Some suggest it could be:
  • Hanging in the middle of a room or against a massive wall.
  • Suspended overhead like a galaxy or city map (comparison to Queens Museum).
  • On the floor, possibly 3D, and interactive (people want to touch or walk on it).