Artist Statement

Project 2 – Thomas Martin                                                         Artists shomas Statement

For my interactive mouse toy I decided to look at swarms of insects and how they react to human interaction. My application consists of four dots which when brought close to the mouse pointer move away from it and try to avoid coming into contact, Like how insects flee from your finger for example, my dots do the same thing, but are limited to the screen size. As you get within fleeing range of the dots they change to black dots. When you manage to touch the dots they disappear and then reset randomly on the screen for you to have endless tries. Through my application I wanted to give the user a sense of chase and a sense of almightiness as these tiny harmless dots are chased down and harassed by your mouse pointer.