Kortunefookie is an interactive public art project, a 4 feet (1 m) large fortune cookie made from red cedar, which lets users print at the touch of a simple button; The Kortunefookie social network creates luck through the project website. Inspired by the idea of ​​fortune cookies, the project was created to allow different users to share their thoughts and create new types of social bonds. This is an interactive kiosk that publishes short texts written by anonymous users on the Kortunefookie website that resemble a message found in a fortune cookie, but every fortune from Kortunefookie is different, unlike the mass-produced fortune on a regular fortune cookie. The Kortunefookie website recommends users to send the deepest secret, the most arrogant wisecrack, personal prayer, or strange predictions.
Kortunefookie has two parts: one that uses Web 2.0 to collect text from the public, and another that consists of an interactive sculpture installation (interactive kiosk). The fate submitted by the public through the project website is then stored into an XML database. Once moderated, these texts are uploaded on computer-specific applications placed inside interactive wooden kiosks. This sculpture kiosk is weather resistant and is designed to be installed anywhere outdoors. Anyone visiting an interactive sculpture in place can press a button and receive a small paper containing the original printed message. This fate is printed using a thermal receipt printer, a paper type that resembles retail receipts.
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History
Created in 2008 as part of a research project funded by the University of Quebec at Outaouais, the creative team included professors Jean-Franç§ois Lacombe from the Multidisciplinary Image School and Christian Desjardins, research assistant and student at the time. The project's ambition is to allow different users to interact and post messages in the public sphere. From the outset, this effort was intended to be a multidisciplinary creation that would act as both an art installation and as an interactive medium to communicate. The challenge for the team is to make the complex technology used invisible, letting the experience generated by the device dominate (as described by John Maeda, in his book The Laws of Simplicity, MIT Press, 2006). Because the team wants a smooth operation and to facilitate the use of interactive sculpture, familiar images must be associated with the new device. After a period of research and development, the team came up with the idea to utilize the image of fortune cookies.
Construction and programming
Shortly after completing the design usage, the construction of an interactive kiosk prototype and then application development begins simultaneously. The prototype is made with a pink Styrofoam sheet measured one and a half inches thick. Once the desired shape and scale is reached, the model is dismantled so that each layer of styrofoam can be reproduced in wood in the same dimension. It was just a matter of assembling all the layers of wood to form a hollow statue. Francis Boivin, a fine art student at the University of Quebec in Outaouais, contributed greatly to the making of wooden sculptures. Interestingly, the last lucky fortune statue was made entirely of red salvaged cedar which was once a telephone pole.
Customized apps that print riches built on Mac Mini (1.83 GHz 2 Core 2 Duo/1GB/80GB/Combo) with the Cocoa programming interface (API) and Apple Xcode and Interface Builder development tools. It's primarily programmed by Justin McKillican. Finally, the speakers are installed in a fortune cookie so that a synthesized 10 seconds of melody can be heard every time a button is pressed. It is also possible to adjust the interval between each text so it is not possible for a continuous paper cascade to be printed.
Finally, using SPIP CMS, the website is conceived to act as both a promotional tool and a text-collection interface. In this project, the Web is a clear "falling point" for the message as it allows anyone anywhere to participate in wealth creation. It is also possible to send messages to be filtered. Especially unpleasant, promotional, or intended for a particular individual.
The statistics for the text so far are:
- French text received: 641
- English text received: 1,312
- Text printed: 22,000
Etymology
For his first performance at the Arts Under The Bridge Festival in New York City (hosted by the Brooklyn-run DAC center), the project is titled SensGoodKarma. However, this title limits the editorial lines as well as the public sphere for intervention. Several brainstorming sessions to find a new name proved futile until, one night in 2009, Chris Zeke Hand exclaimed, " Kortunefookie! ", inspired the project's permanent name.
Credit and funding
The main collaborators for the project include Christian Desjardins, Justin McKillican and Francis Boivin. Funding is provided by institutional funds for research development (FIRC) development. A book on the project, called Kortunefookie, the story of interactive cakes , has been published in the summer of 2011. Limited to 100 numbered editions, this publication includes text, photographs and illustrations by Jean-FranÃÆ'§ois Lacombe , FranÃÆ'§ois Chalifour, Christian Desjardins, Mamoru Kobayakawa, and Marie-HÃÆ'Ã… © lÃÆ'¨ne Leblanc.
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Critical goals and perspectives
The purpose of the project, as stated by its creator, is the establishment of a communication tool that will act as an intermediary between the public imagination and its users. Kortunefookie is a type of contemporary forecast device, allowing thousands of users to share and connect with other people's intimate thoughts. This need for communication, or communication intimacy as proposed by Kortunefookie, is reaffirmed by FranÃÆ'§ois Chalifour:
Ã, "The isolation is uninteresting, it bothers us.This restrained the traffic.To improve the situation, we have to fill the space that separates objects, creatures.Communication, as long as it has been, has proven to be a privileged means of closing this gap: attract attention, communication channels, exchanging messages In all sorts of ways, Lacombe's odd-looking box, located on the side of the road outside the art gallery, speaks to us about the trend that results remain, to this day, ambiguous.Would we bridge the gap, have we fill the void, have we crossed the chasm that separates us? Jean-Franç§ois Lacombe is working on it. »
Excerpts taken from the article Kortunefookie, Horro Vacui , written by FranÃÆ'§ois Chalifour, previously published in the magazine Espace Sculpture 90 , Hiver 2009/2010. translation: Sarah Knight.
Exhibition
- 2008 at the 12th Arts Under the Bridge festival in Dumbo, New York City.
- 2009 in the Articule gallery in Montreal, Canada.
- 2010 at artists running the Daimon Center in Gatineau, Quebec.
- 2010 in Toronto ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche.
- 2011 in Art Souterrain, Montreal Nuit Blanche.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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