Roles: Art direction, software engineer, creative technologist.
Exhibited as part of VAL-U-MART, an immersive art show at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland California in early 2020. (Press) (Press) (Press)
Casi is an interactive feminist puppet cash register. Participants can interact with her as they would a normal cash register by purchasing items. Casi offers a range of items that have an associated often-hidden emotional labor cost to be rung up. Each sequence of adding items to a purchase has its own voice and text-based interactions, at the end of which a unique receipt is printed out of Casi’s mouth for participants to take home. Be careful not to order too much!
Tools: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, PyGame, thermal printer, i2c displays, drawer solenoid control, analog keypad interface.
