Moving the sailing stone

The Sailing Stone project animates a stone sculpture such that a traditional, large scale, normally static installation physically interacts with the public. The Sailing Stone moves so as to disrupt the normal motion of visitors to the space so as to encourage changes in the nature of the interaction between visitors and the sculpture itself. The public gallery space is monitored through a network of video cameras, and this information is used to develop a model of human motion through the gallery space. Based on this model of visitor motion, a motion plan is developed and executed for the sculpture so as to maximally disrupt the motion paths of visitors.