artport gate page August 04
playMusicBox
by Jin-Yo Mok + Gicheol Lee
http://artport.whitney.org

Jin-Yo Mok's and Gicheol Lee's MusicBox is a sound instrument that
integrates an installation with interactions over the Internet. The physical
installation consists of an old-fashioned music box with a crank handle, in
which the pins have been replaced with LEDs and the notes with photo sensors
for user interaction.

Users can draw a shape and pattern on the screen with their mouse and the
same pattern of LEDs will light up on the physical music box. Turning the
crank handle on the LED cylinder, any sensors that detect light from the
LEDs will make a sound. Data submitted by users is stored in a database and
shared by the online and offline music box.


Jin-Yo Mok is a Korean multimedia artist who has lived and worked in New
York since 2002. His net art work has been featured at the Korea web-art
festival; Media City Seoul; Digitaliterature Festival; the Seoul Museum of
Art Netart Gallery; American ElectroLiterature; in the Rhizome artbase and
other venues. He began to create physical computing artwork in 2002 and
since then, has focused on integrating physical installation with user
interactions on the Internet.

Gicheol Lee is an interactive designer and programmer who is interested in
applying art and science concepts to information and interface design
through programming. He holds an MFA degree in Computer Art from the School
of Visual Arts, NY and a BS degree in Mathematics from Sogang University in
Korea. His experimental web site http://www.Typorganism.com received awards
from the Communication Arts Interactive Annual and in the HOW Magazine's
Interactive Design Competition.


http://artport.whitney.org