Project 4:Exhibition and Critique

We have had the last few days creating the exhibition presentation to enhance our work and display what our project 4 has been all about. For this we rented out some display lights to focus on our posters as well as a flat screen tv to display our experiment videos. We had to think about the first thing the viewers will look towards and what order of viewing we wanted them to go through. It was also important of the position of the cart so it didn't interfere with the presentation and for us to look at towards the end rather than the beginning.

Our presentation/exhibition

Overall I felt I should of had more input into how we positioned our posters on the wall and discussed more on what display features were used to make our work look more professional. I think we thought too much about what we needed in the presentation rather than how it was going to be presented. When presenting our work in the critique I thought we were able to talk about what was asked in the brief and explain those parts of it but did not take into account the preliminary reasoning of our work and how to contrast with how others might have seen our project as.

There was a few questions that were asked which may not have been answered in full detail which I had not anticipated on answering in the presentation, even if we had thought about these things and had already come up with reason behind them:

We found that creating an ice cream trolley as a way to fit into the city was less likely to attract attention because of it being more common in this urban area, even if Auckland is not big on food stands they would be less out of place compared to a wheelbarrow design or some of our other concepts for moving around a large car battery and jar of ice cream. If we were to experiment in rural areas than I would have been open for a more farm look, like the wheelbarrow design. I know that ice cream trolleys are used to help promote there sales but I still see them as cliched enough to stop me from thinking of it as more than just another food outlet on Queens street. The only moment I would want to walk over to a trolley selling food is when I am hungry, but since our experiment areas were largely based around other more appealing food shops it made sense that we could be blurred into the rest of the food industry without others looking twice at us. Our use of colours also made it less appealing and made it look like if we were selling food that it would not be in good taste. We really felt we wanted to get the right amount of being able to label us as part of the city to keep us inconspicuous, as well as looking dull and unappealing to stop attracting a public audience.

Our experiment in action with our different forms of data

The reason we included an umbrella mounted onto the side was for more practical reasons rather than a themed one. It was to protect the equipment from any seasonal weather as well as stop the unwanted sunlight that produces IR light. We wanted to get light sources from man made devices rather than our sun as this would not help with our meaning or outcome in results. We also did take it down for the night or indoor experiments. I also think it helped in labeling it as just another food outlet without bringing out too much attention to the trolley.

With relating our time based visual with the graph, it was to not only show what the IR camera was picking up but also how the LDR sensors would be transferring the data to the arduino board. We purposely put a LDR sensor beside the IR camera because we wanted them to pick up on the same IR. Also the time based visual is meant to relate to the environmental camera more than the graph. As well as the IR camera relates better to the graph then the time based visual. We could of just had the top two screens displayed but wanted the viewers to actually see the IR that the LDRs picked up and how it would compel that data into determining how much heat went onto the ice cream.