elizabethengelman / a-day-at-the-beach

A Day at the Beach

View the project here: https://a-day-at-the-beach-kpqv.onrender.com/

Please note that this project includes audio and webcam interaction. None of the webcam footage is captured or stored but is used only in real-time.

Summary

A Day at the Beach is the culmination of a research project that I did during my Interactive Media Arts graduate studies at NYU. The initial intention of this project was to do a deep dive into sunscreen. I was expecting to learn that sunscreen is a modern invention that is empirically beneficial and that everyone should wear it. As I conducted my research I discovered that this viewpoint was centered on my own experience as a person with fair skin and a family history of skin cancer. I learned that the history of sunscreen is more nuanced and rich than I had imagined. This project hopes to share a small piece of that rich history through the use of interactive media.

To learn more about the creative process and trail of research, please see my documentation blog.

Local Development

To start this project locally, run npm start and navigate to http://localhost:3000/.