Context

Include references and discussion of artists, artworks, movements or aesthetic frameworks/techniques/approaches that inspired your outcome, process or approach. What has informed your outcome? How does your outcome relate to other artists and their work? What ideas, styles, or themes did you draw on any why? You must cite at least 3 critical texts, theories or works.

1. Wall art of trees(see below)

Wall decoration is a form of art installations. The flexibility and stretchability of metals and wires make it easy for them to extend from 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional art and therefore give the audience different spatial experience. We were inspired by wall art that themed on trees, and we decided to do our own electrical tree. Our outcome is like a piece of interactive wall art under the influences of the wall decoration of metal trees.

2. Wire Frame Art (see above in proposal)

A collection of wire frame art:

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/city-of-melbourne-wire-installation

Wire frame art on walls is a branch of wall art. The collection of the artworks are created by numerous unknown artists and they utilize the electrical feature of wires very well. For example, in the wire frame artwork above, the wires are actually connected to the plug base, and used to power the lamp. It inspires us to use the wire not only as an art material but also as a carrier for currents.

3. Interactive art and Embodied Interaction

Text: Paul Dourish. Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction, Chapter 4. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2004.

Paul introduces the concept of "ready to hand". That is, technology itself should better fade into the "unconscious yet accessible" background for our mode of being.  The idea of making technology invisible inspires us to think of the possibility of making art installation "invisible". In our outcome, we tried to make our approach simple and clear using buttons that stick out, and explicit branches of the tree with lights on them. So passers-by could know that they can interact with the tree by pressing the buttons, without given explicit instructions.