Telepresence

when crickets are away from home. video:

(cricket 1 & cricket 2, inc.)

A human presence can be contained in an image, or in a three-dimensional representation: a statue or doll. These forms abstract presence, condense it, symbolize it. The power of representation is in this concentrated “second” presence, extracted and separated from the original. Is it always safe or desirable to allow your presence be embodied elsewhere? In the TelePricker Project, presence is (mis)placed into a miniature physical form and this usually friendly, cuddly plaything becomes a source of misery and annoyance. Users prick the networked voodoo doll with pins, and the output is annoying spam, disturbing email images, and disquieting text messages and phone calls channeled to the victim. Users beware! Your VooDooBuddy could turn on you– prick too often and the doll might take your picture and send it to your victim, revealing your identity.

The TelePricker project is designed for pranksters, jilted lovers, and vengeful employees.

http://itp.nyu.edu/~rd989/voodoobuddy

(Rodrigo deBenito and Zannah Marsh)

FeedBack PlayBack is an interactive, dynamic film re-editing/viewing system that explores the link between media consumption and physiological arousal.

This project uses galvanic skin response and pulse rate to create a dynamic film re-editing and veiwing system. The users’ physical state determines the rhythm and length of the cuts and the visceral quality of scenes displayed; the user’s immediate reactions to the scenes delivered, feeds back to generate a cinematic crescendo or a lull. This project exploits the power of media to manipulate and alter our state of being at the most basic, primal level, and attempts to synchronize the media and viewer– whether towards a static loop or a explosive climax.

In a darkened, enclosed space, the user approaches a screen and his or her rests fingertips on a pad to the right of the screen. The system establishes baseline for this users physiological response, and re-calibrates. Short, non-sequential clips of a familiar, emotionally charged film– for example, Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror masterpiece “The Shining” –are shown. If the user responds to slight shifts in the emotional tone of the media, the system amplifies that response and displays clips that are more violent and arousing, or calmer and more neutral. The film is re-edited, the narrative reformulated according to this user’s response to it.

Feedbak Playback is by Zannah Marsh and Che-Wei Wang

For my second assignment, I wanted to further explore the idea of third place. I was interested creating an anonymous, virtual, safe place. My inspiration was Elliot Spitzer’s hotel room and DanO’s post about the phone. With that I created ThirdVoice: a phone-based anonymous chat room.

Users can call into the system using their phone. They are given the choice to pose a question/discussion topic or address one already in progress.

I have posted the code here. Comments welcome.

this is the project collaborated with Rodrigo. the website of our Globline is:  http://itp.nyu.edu/~rd989/globline/globline.html

“We are smart journalist and editors for “GLOBLINE” news agency. We provide news efficiently, very very fast responding to what’s happening in the global world. We know how to use photoshop, We know how to guess what interviewees are talking about in another language, we also know ctrl+C, ctrl+V.”

– editors of Globline

1, We want to show how various of agencies broadcast the event all together, confusing audience by the different interpretations of the same video source by a tourist happening to be in Tibet then. It’s not the opinion that varies, it’s actually what was happening in tibet, the fact that varies a lot among different sources.

2, We want to imitate exactly the way how news agency edits this news: cropping, guessing without research, geotagging, mixing, translating incorrectly, etc.

3, We need more sources to be smart: big agencies, from local or international agencies, from grassroot eyewitness, people need to critically treat the news.

We want to find news from as many sources as possible, some from big news agencies which we get the google news aggregator rss: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=tibet&btnG=Search+News. so they have news from associate press, VOA, BBC, CNN,ABC, Reuters, and also XINHUA which is the chinese CNN. But ironically, a lot of them are from US, Canada, Britain, Some from India and China.

Plus, we collected and embeded the grassroot international blogs talking about this event, such as globalvoice, http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/east-asia/tibet-arc/feed/, even the eyewitness of this tibet event ’s blog: http://kadfly.blogspot.com/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/JOTMAN
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/weblog.htm
there are also some readings around media bias

The Market for News” (American Economic Review, 2005) and “Media Bias and Reputation” (Journal of Polical Economy, 2006). David Baron of Stanford also has a paper on media bias, and his focus is that news organizations tolerate bias of journalists if this can allows the latter to be hired at a lower wage. “Persistent Media Bias”, Journal of Public Economics, 2006.

meng & rodrigo

Here is the link for assignment2

teleglobe ver1.0

api lists which we use for this project now.
http://www.webcams.travel/
http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/
http://www.wefeelfine.org/
this one is unstable!

Noriaki, Jae Yoon

Here is a link to the documentation for Assignment 2.

Kacie