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Archive for May, 2008


Project Database SMS Tagging

This service allows ITP Gallery visitors to \"tag\" projects and have information about them via SMS and email.

This service allows ITP Gallery visitors to \"tag\" projects and save information for later. It pulls project information from the ITP Project Database via an RSS feed and returns a text message with the project title, associated student names, and the project\'s link. The information is automatically shortened by limiting...CONTINUE READING »

Vajrapani {4 people and a table of sand between them}

Vajrapani is an experience of interconnections in the present moment. It is a group meditation on impermanence and co-operation.

Vajrapani is an interactive sand table instillation for 1 - 4 persons, which encourages them to experience their individual and group presence as a natural kind of magic. A meditation on fleeting images which parallel the passing of time, like a digital sand mandala, it is the meeting point of...CONTINUE READING »

Simon Stabs…

Show your knife skills making your own sequence!

\"Simon Stabs...\" is an interactive game that provides \'harmless\' platform differs from a typical knife skill game with a real knife. It consists of two gaming platforms with wooden knives as \'switch\' to press six \'buttons\' in the space between each finger. The rule of the game is that player...CONTINUE READING »

24 switch pixel

An analog circuit of 24 standard light switches controls the colour of a single pixel.

This piece mimics the way a computer uses 24 bits to control the colour value of each pixel on a screen.
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Waves of Leaves

\'Waves of Leaves\' is an interactive, kinetic ceramic sculpture that is made of clay.

\'Waves of Leaves\' is an interactive, reactive, kinetic ceramic sculpture that is made of clay. By detecting the proximity of the viewer, and by implication the viewer’s gaze, the sculpture reacts by showing gentle movements. The piece is intended to address the concerns of beauty in natural forms and...CONTINUE READING »

peek, poke, talk

look, you two\'s shadows are peeking, poking, and talking!

When two strangers sit on a bench, they usually go for the seats that are far away from each other, and usually, no talk, no touch, no interaction. So instead of making them talk to each other, we want to make their shadows interact with each other. ...CONTINUE READING »

Erkel the Circle Judger

A computer that judges how perfect your circles are.

We should appreciate our friend the computer... it is really good at some things. And computers should respect us because we do some things really well. \"Erkel the circle Judger\" is about computers and people cooperating to create a work of art... the perfect circle. Users will be invited to...CONTINUE READING »

FlickrText

Large prints of famous text works translated into diagrammed sentences via flickr

I am working to explore the relationship between text and images. I am interested in taking famous works like Romeo and Juliet or war and peace, and translating it to a series of diagrammed sentences that are able to be translated back into the text with careful viewing. I am...CONTINUE READING »

inDOOR Energy Harvesting

The inDOOR Energy Harvester is a low cost, low profile mechanism that converts rotational kinetic energy from opening and closing a door to usable electricity whose progress can be dynamically graph and monitored from a website.

From the time you wake up in the morning to eating, walking, even sitting at a desk, you are generating energy. What if we could harness and harvest our actions, turn our comings and goings into an unconscious power plant? In my thesis, I am exploring the potential these...CONTINUE READING »

MAPP (Mechanical Art Production Platform)

MAPP (Mechanical Art Production Platform) is a 3-axis robot capable of producing a variety of aesthetics by reading commands from custom computer software.

The Mechanical Art Production Platform, or MAPP, is an art-making platform, consisting of a three-axis drawing machine attached via microcontroller to custom computer software.

MAPP is a platform, and not simply a machine, by virtue of the fact that it was not designed with a specific aesthetic output in...CONTINUE READING »