my role: concept, design, sound, documentation, words
*this project was created in about 3 weeks*
FLUXUS is an exploration of the art of conversation. In a digital environment dominated by emoticons and abrv’s Team Fluxus has created a system which abstractly elevates standard text chat to a stimulating, organic, and emotive visual experience. It has been shown at festivals and symposiums.
Watch Fluxus in action:
The conceptual underpinning of the world of FLUXUS is visual abstraction of text-based communication in a virtual environment. FLUXUS uses a precise formula where a shape represents a consonant and the vowels combine to determine the colour of the word-shapes. These elements combined generate an organic visual representation of the conversation, adding another layer of expression and interpretation to standard text based communication. And although the visualization method is abstract it is intended to add a further layer of meaning to the conversation in a similar way that abstract visual art adds meaning to experience.
Stylistically, FLUXUS draws inspiration from the Dutch artistic movement of De Stijl. The movement sought to distill objects through pure abstraction using the most basic of shapes and colours. The movement strives to ignore the natural form of colour of an object and focus on the abstraction. So too the world of FLUXUS does not express the content of a conversation but rather the universality as captured through abstraction.
See project website here
Fluxus was created with Processing.
