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Rock
My Chair
or Networked Rockers, will
be featured at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2006.
This year to be held Aug 7-13 in San Jose, Ca.
A bit of background history of the rocking chair: the word 'rocker' originated in the 15th century and indicated the person responsible for rocking the cradle. In the 18th century it also meant an orator who put others to sleep. It was not until 1787 that the earliest dated citation ' ROCKING CHAIR' appeared in the oxford English dictionary for usage. In the early 18th century, skates were sometimes applied to existing chairs, converting them to rockers. 6- legged gungstols ( the swedish gungstol means rocking chair) were made between the early 1800's until the mid 1870's, while the 4- legged ones were made until the early 1900's.gungstols were traditionally painted black with gold outlining. Rock My Chair is an interactive installation consisting of two sets of four rocking chairs. The chairs emit different parts of a melody according to their being rocked. People sitting near each other are able to create different harmonies and rhythms encouraging communication and play. ìRock My Chairî is based on ìSide by Side,î a project created by one of the Motohoho members Rikayo Horimizuís. The new version uses a network protocol for communication allowing rocking chairs to be linked both locally and remotely. One set of four chairs would be in the museum cafe while the other set would either be in another location in the museum (a reading room?), or in another public or semi-public place located around the world. Each of the of four chairs has a partner chair in the other set. When a person sits down and starts rocking a tone is emitted both locally and from the partner chair which will also start to rock. When someone sits down in the empty chair ìBî that is rocking they will feel the movement of the person in chair ìAî through a swinging pendulum installed inside of the the chair as well as hear the sound generated by chair ìAî, if chair ìBî is rocked sound is generate which will be heard at both chairs. People in remote locations can communicate through the creation of sound environments and songs together.
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