Sama Dance

This project inspired by Sama dance in Sufi ceremony. The concept was having a new experience of smart performance by engaging the audience and providing the opportunity of having their own unique interactive experiences with an art piece.
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The tech part of my project was made of Servo Motors, LEDs, micro controllers (Aurdino) and circuits. The interaction of the users with the mechanical system was implemented through speech recognition. I did the programming in p5js. I used speech recognition libraries to detect some specific words that the user will read in a poem. There were two sculptures which standed on a surface and as the project runs the code's output will be sent to the micro controllers and after processing code in Aurdino, the output will move the sculptures. Also there are some lights what I used them to lighting project's stage.

Sama Dance was acclaimed and showcased at the ITP Winter Show 2017 in New York.


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