Project 3 Proposal

Group: Caroline, Ivette, Morgan

For this installation our group wants to focus on dogs and how they help us deal with things like stress, depression, and anxiety. The benefits of interacting with animals, such as dogs, has been scientifically proven - with most individuals interacting with a dog increases the levels of the oxytocin, a stress reducing hormone. Dogs are commonly referred to as "man's best friend" and the goal behind this installation is to express this notion in a way that will be emotionally understood by the audience. 

For the installation we would ideally like to set it up inside of an empty classroom so that we can have this separate space. Viewers would be lead into the room by one member of the group and they would be encouraged to think about things that make them feel stressed, sad, or anxious. Upon entering the room another member of the group would begin to play the projections onto the walls of the room. The videos would be of things that would encourage viewers to go into a more stressed emotional state (like nails on a chalk board or scrolling through one of Santiago's codes x3 ) but as the videos progressed  they would start to be replaced by close up videos of our dogs that would pan out (something similar to those adopt a shelter pet commercials - linked below). After only dogs videos are playing the last member of the group would bring in a dog to interact with the viewers. We want to show how the involvement of dogs take over the entire space and essentially overtakes the sense 'stress' everyone was feeling.  

Referenced Videos 

https://youtu.be/4Hbn-7xAvr4

https://youtu.be/Xpnvug7Uwg8