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DOTS is the winner of 2000 Interactive design review of
I.D. Magazine and Interactive Design Annual 6 of Communication Arts.

DOTS is a digital kinetic drawing device through which people may interact with subtle symbolic geometries.  DOTS is carefully designed to facilitate the smooth operation of basic graphic elements within the grammar of a computer language,  producing movements which distinctly resemble things in the natural world around us.  As the designer of DOTS  I found that creating and describing an arithmetic rule out of a continuous flow of digital numbers was both an unfamiliar experience and a difficult project  In order for a natural-looking movement to occur in this arithmetical drawing, a number of exact and  logical lines are necessary.  This is similar  to drawing by hand, which requires a tremendous amount of control in order to describe delicate details.  Eventually I found that the essence of this describing process was actually more like a group of symbols which a computer could understand, rather than a sensing of,  for instance, a particular quality of pigment color which is less qualifiable. This arithmetic order (and  disorder) is rather more  like another world consisting of precision, complexity, and a utilization of  numeric logic that  will continuously  fold inward and outward.

When we try to define movement arithmetically, it causes us to think  right to the very core of movement itself.  Every movement has a mutual relationship, and inside of these relationships  there are strengths, weaknesses and rhythms. With the help of coincidental mathematical elements,  geometric drawing movements may be represented as having more natural qualities.  The tendency for one to gaze long  at a raindrop or swaying reeds is due some sort of attractive regulation inside of these phenomena and their causal forces. This is a regulation which we as well feel within our own bodies.  Expressing this in an arithmetic form necessitates a completely different approach towards movement and thinking about movement.   I began to wonder how mutual relationships amongst a group of movements and each element's different velocity would affect overall relationships, as well as the amount of coincidence, or rather, arithmetical chance, which might be introduced  into their flow so that  one would finally empathize with this movement. This investigation of limits was compelling  and unfamiliar to me and this can be felt in one's interaction with DOTS.  

DOTS is a kinetic imaging device which has the ability, through the  user's own hand movements, to express and convert my concepts regarding movement into the visual.
 

Soojeong Kim

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