Supacollager: a ParticiPART installation proposal for enabling multi-user defined web-image collages
Abstract
In this proposal, we describe how an original collage generator entitled Supacollager will be used at the 2008 Participatory Design Conference during the ParticiPART installation series. The Supacollager system generates web-image collages through gesture-based recognition. For the 2008 PDC, we will devise a Flickr group for conference attendees, such as PDC 2008 Images, to upload images and thus query from a set of images that are situated in the event. Importantly, we describe in this proposal how presenting Supacollager at the PDC relates to the 2008 theme of "Experiences and Challenges." We believe that Supacollager provides users with an experience of making meaning in a type of art that is open and accessible. Additionally, conference attendees will be able to witness the collages change and grow over time; thus, their artwork will be in a constant state of flux.
