Evan Sheehan

Be a Tree

An interactive piece that uses a Kinect to project a silhouette of the viewer and grow tree limbs with blossoms from their body as they raise their arms.

My final piece for Golan Levin’s Interactive Art & Computational Design wherein the viewer is transformed into a tree while standing in front of the piece with arms raised. The body forms the trunk, and the arms form large boughs, as branches sprout from the viewer and eventually grow blossoms at their tips. Built using openFrameworks, the piece uses OpenNI to detect the viewer’s pose and place branches along the torso and arms.