The Mindstream Project is designed to capture the imaginative, visual footprint of a population or place. A&D’s Mindstream Animation Station is an interactive easy-to-use tool that allows people with little or no experience to make a stopmotion animation. The station tours and collects visual stories, doodles and drawings from people all over the state. The results are then edited and posted on the project’s website as a collective movie, a ‘mindstream’.
The project is still in development, bringing together designers, artists and programmers from around UM to create a significant public art project. The latest iteration of the station was designed by A&D students Eric Harman and Stephanie Starch. Mindstream’s logo was developed by student Ben English.
A ‘mindstream’ created by visitors of the 2009 Ann Arbor Street Art Fair.
http://www.playgallery.org/animationstation/
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