demo hour
Wheel Stories

Wheel Stories is a working model of a Ferris wheel fairground ride, that when turned triggers a video to play. Each carriage plays a different piece of audio, along with video showing the same cycle of the ride from a different viewpoint, allowing many different perspectives for the same period of time. Each carriage contains people of various ages and backgrounds traveling on the Ferris wheel at the same time, telling stories about what they are doing while on the ride.

Anthony Otten | Liverpool John Moores University

DOI: 10.1145/2008176.2008179

These Demo Hour projects were curated by Ingi Helgason, a researcher and design lecturer at Edinburgh
Napier University and the Open University. The projects were presented at Create ‘ 10, hosted by
for those who see

The installation “for those who see” reveals the beauty of the unseen. The impulse of sound creates a vortex air ring‚ invisible as the sound itself. Only fog can demonstrate this aesthetic phenomenon. In the short moments in which the rings appear, our visual perception connects the single rings to patterns, surfaces, symbols, or bodies. Depending on the focus of the observer, these can be viewed as a whole picture or as individual fragments, inviting contemplation and fascination.