It’s official, we are going to Burning Man with our project! Here’s how we described it in our grant application:
The Zymphonic Wormhole celebrate the emergent, layered symphony in light and sound generated by traces of fearless adventurers thrusting themselves out into the great unknown — adventurers for whom what they would experience is as unimaginable to them as it would be to us modern humans, if we were to boldly fling ourselves towards new worlds in outer space through a wormhole.
The 2014 Burning Man theme “Caravansary” explores the rich cultural exchanges brought about by mercantile adventurers on the silk road — creating a swirling exchange of ideas that shaped every aspect of the modern world — so too does the Zymphonic Wormhole.
A wormhole is a theoretical passage through space-time that create shortcuts for long journeys across the universe. For us, space is the final frontier, where no man has gone before, and the wormhole, the new silk roads upon which we voyage into the future.
With this project, we seek to create that ineffable moment where the traveler sits on the cusp of unknown adventure, falling free into the future; by virtue of their very movement creating the road upon which they traveled, and having landed, looking back to experience the cumulative wonder of a road transformed by so many fellow wild-eyed adventurers.
It’s a fun, geeky project. Our goal is to create a responsive experience, where people can see traces of their presence left on the wormhole as they pass through it.
The full proposal is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J5OVpj_0zVVAp6-C_n62ZgRYK170N6Vv_98h8wi0-30/edit