FLOWTRACK MACHINE
The Flowtrack Machine was designed & engineered from scratch. Despite the its fictional backstory, the device is fully functional as a meditative aide.
Part of a larger art show we produced that was an immersive narrative experience with an audio guide and emergent stories tied to each exhibit.
The flowtrack machine is a unique meditative tool designed to induce the practitioner into a state of flow. With rhythmic electromagnetic pulses, the user coaxes the ball into increasingly rapid cycles around it's track, surfing the building momentum until a full trance is achieved.
Flow is a psychological phenomenon in which a person is completely immersed in a task with energized focus, acting purely on instinct, without thought or regard for space and time. It's a feeling of being "in the zone" applicable in everything from athletics to writing. In creative application, inducing a flow state is useful for generating a high output of raw idea material to be later sculpted into refined stories, concepts, or designs.
In addition to the Flowtrack machine several more pieces were constructed for our “Artifacts from the Multiverse” gallery installation.
The Polycosmic Chair freatured induction drivers installed behind the back cushion turns the entire chair into a speaker; its user can recline into a thick block of sound. Paired with a custom score the experience is deeply immersive, meditative, and relaxing.
The Light Vivarium blends the worlds of manufacturing, lighting design and art. Using lenticular magnification, the individual bands of light evoke organic movement even while stationary and tempt the viewer to experience it from multiple angles. Each of the 800 LEDs were hand-placed & programmed.