Traveler

(Millenium Museum, Beijing China. July/2006)

Traveler started out as a collaboration between Students from Parsons School of Design and Students at Beijing's Tsinghua University.

We built an interactive video installation that involved two stationary bikes. Depending on which bike was peddled faster a video display would switch from a bike ride through NYC to a bike ride in Beijing, music reflecting each city would also play. When the bikes are not peddled the display shows a cubed combo of both.

The front tire of the bikes were rigged to pneumatics, so that when someone was riding the bike the front tire would bounce up and down as if riding down a city street.

video
Riding through Beijing, with the 3 camera rig collecting footage. watch (.mov)

photos

The installation:


Jen from Tsinghua with the camera rig we built using wide angle lens'


Sven Travis and Ben Bacon testing the neumatics that would control the bumpiness of the bike

Purchasing the bikes in Beijing


The raw installation space


Sven, Ben and Walid Mohanna putting the finishing touches on the bike set up.

In use, riding through Beijing


In Use, Riding over the Brooklyn Bridge


View from below