eight-lines
EIGHT LINES
Identity lives in others as much as the self. Personality paradigms, such as the Meyers-Briggs and Enneagram, focus on the person but ignore their context in time and space. For Eight Lines, the individual and their environment were entangled, and the two were measured as one.
Visitors were invited to take a personality questionnaire consisting of eight lines. Their answers, as well as those of all prior participants, were combined to seed a unique computer generated image. Once the participant received the printout of their image, they were encouraged to engage with the work in several contexts including adding new scraps, drawing on, trading and interpreting the generated image as a dance.
Visitors were invited to take a personality questionnaire consisting of eight lines. Their answers, as well as those of all prior participants, were combined to seed a unique computer generated image. Once the participant received the printout of their image, they were encouraged to engage with the work in several contexts including adding new scraps, drawing on, trading and interpreting the generated image as a dance.
Details
An interactive art exhibition where visitors were invited to take an eight question test, presented on a five faced pyramid we constructed with inset touchscreens. After entering their initials, visitors answered the 8 questions, taking around 90 seconds on average.These inputs were fed in real time through a Processing script to generate abstract black and white graphics, then sent through a laser printer to produce an 8.5x11 sheet, folded into small booklet, with a series of 8 unique image and the user’s initials. The images were generated in part by their exact responses, and in part by the state of the system as a whole, including all previous inputs, such that no two books were identical.
Installed around the gallery were stations offering different ways for visitors to interact with their book: an editing station with scissors, glue and markers for visitors to physically alter their book, a face painting station where we painted visitor’s faces to match their book, and an exchange counter where visitors could trade their book for a new one.