Pravin Sathe - Long Form

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I love wooster collective, a blog that follows street art. While perusing some of the great imagery there I began to think of how you could "reshape" the spaces around you using elements other than just paint/chalk.

Edina Tokodi did it with moss.

I was thinking sound. By hacking an mp3 player (that has a record function as well?), connecting some small speakers and hooking it up to an IR sensor you could get some interesting interactions between passerbys and an inanimate object.

Take a construction site in my neighborhood that has small "portholes" through which local residents peer into the beginnings of new condos. Why not have music or a conversation play as a viewer walks up to the porthole?

If the mp3 player has a record button, give the viewer an opportunity to leave a short message.

It's like secret messages for the digital age.

Pravin has worked in fields ranging from pure science research to the arts, technology and education. He received his B.A. from New York University in Politics and Economics in 2003 and his M.P.S. from ITP @ NYU in 2008. He is currently exploring ideas that lie just below the surface of the images and objects we see and use everyday.