Democra-SKEE Vote Alley

Futuro-Vote

Participatory Democracy was a ground-breaking interactive art exhibition that investigated the democratic process. A collaboration between Ravi Jain, Natalie Loveless, Jeff “Jeffu” Warmouth, Andrew MK Warren, and Douglas Weathersby, the installation showed at Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA, May 7 to July 29, 2004.

Participatory Democracy was an audience-interactive election carnival, in which viewers registered, researched, and voted for one of our fictional candidates: The Bearded Lady, Two-Headed Ed, The Contortionist, and the default candidate The Great Incumbo.

I was primarily responsible for creating three of the four absurd voting machines. Click on the images above to try your hand at Democra-SKEE Vote Alley or Futuro-Vote!

1. Retro-Vote, an “olde-schoole” pencil-and-paper ballot;
2. Futuro-Vote, a temperamental touch-screen voting booth;
3. Vote Toss, a chad-less dartboard ballot; and
4. Democra-skee Vote Alley, an arcade bowl-a-vote