2009 ITP Thesis » Karwas, Dana

Yingxian Wu

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This thesis focuses on creating a new fun device with which people can browse images and play videos in a public space. The device is designed as a scale model of a floating building that has three different black and white pattern markers on the windows. Users can watch three augmented reality images and can control the video by turning the building model to match three possible states for the camera to interact. The videos projected on the screen are a combination of live images with virtual 3D space and digital sound. This device is also a test model of a “chance machine style gallery” that offers young artists real space to display their video work in a unique format while at the same time the capacity to build an audience.

Klara Palotai

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Exploded Archives is a site-specific installation based on archival material of a historical building, presented with the organizing principal of anarchic freedom. Based on the concept of emptiness, the sound, text and visual fragments are reorganized for an immersive viewing experience.

A historical building becomes a magnifying glass: voices and images of its past merge in a new narrative about identity, community, memory, religion, gender. The \”noise\” of past “frequencies” interferes, as random artifacts and by-products of the investigation.

Doors and windows open up to reveal memory fragments and the ordinary space of a community room in an old synagogue transforms into an enchanted location with new narratives. The old aron kodesh frames an interactive mirror and spectators find their own reflection framed as a responsive archival artifact.

Exploded Archives is a timeless space: it pulls out otherwise invisible threads from the dramatic action of archival materials and puts them in a different perspective. The audio and video components of the installation shift focus from the concrete events and address the whole rather than the segments involved in the given situation. The installation plumbs the unconscious, functioning as a magnet which invites and absorbs those ideas, anxieties, and emotions which would otherwise not even surface. As a cross-section of temporal procedures it gives a break to the narratives and ignites their projections of dreams and thoughts in the new context.

The installation accepts the premise that the meaning is in part structured by its own negotiation with boundaries of the building, with a constant attempt to ground it within this framework by exclusively using content generated within its walls.

Eduardo Lytton

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Altar to Our Lady of the Shining Silver Sun is a shrine in the Latin American tradition dedicated to presenting the beatific highs and the exponentially nightmarish shades of losing touch with reality. It holds testimonials of strange and powerful visions in the form of retablos, colorful votives often seen in Latin American churches that mix painting and text to show gratitude for moments of divine intervention or miracles. The retablos and the collection of small personal votives on the shelf that complement them will be offerings on the theme of “visions” and/or psychotic disorders that will become animated as one approaches the altar, hopefully presenting an environment where the perception of real and the unreal starts to stretch and rip apart.

Xue Hou

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This thesis project is a narrative animated short film entitled \”February\”, inspired by a girl who was born in February.

Jose Olivares

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

During this decade there has been a resurgence of low-resolution graphics and interest in folk art. At the same time technology has advanced to a point where complex interactive man-machine systems can be developed in different contexts such as in art and communications. I intend to merge both lo-resolution video game graphics and Andean textile art to produce the visual aesthetic and the grammar blocks for a series of multi-channel interactive video pieces depicting scenes and imagery associated with Andean and video game culture. The work would be presented as a site specific installation.

Sofia Paraskeva

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aural Aura is a video and sound installation/performance that visualizes resonances generated by body gestures using sensors mapped to key energy points of the body to trigger sound and color. The project aspires to enhance energy management using specific frequencies and corresponding colors, triggered by active and/or passive bodily movements based on the Shaolin 18 Lohan hands, the fundamental chi Kung exercises used for meditation since 527 BCE in China.

Stella Kim

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Avatar Fight Club is a Manga style, exclusive social online fighting game that emulates the ideologies of Chuck Palahniuk’s book “Fight Club.”

Jason Krugman

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Firefly 870 LED Protoype pairs 870 wind switches with 870 super-bright white LEDs to form an 8\’ x 8\’ grid. As the wind blows over the piece, the wind switches trigger each LED individually, creating a stunning sparking effect in response to the wind. If every LED were to turn on, the entire piece would consume as much electricity as a single 60-Watt light bulb.

Patent Pending.

Celina Alvarado

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This project tries to confront the user with the nothingness faced when
surrendering to a desire.
The use of smoke as a screen or an additional layer will help deliver the idea of
how ephemeral, whimsical a desire can be, the lightness and the fragility of an
accomplished desire. The void, the frustration, the emptiness that comes
along the achievement of a goal.

Matthew Young

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s About Time is multichannel video installation that aims to be an exploration of our perception of the pace of time’s passing versus it’s reality. Constructed in an effort to visualize the current time in a new way – think of it as an abstract clock of sorts – It’s About Time is powered by the same people it’s meant to communicate the time to. Designed for installation in a transit authority, particularly in open areas of regular foot traffic, It’s About Time uses a single camera to capture the silhouetted image of passing travelers. This image is then incorporated into the context of the time visualization. The visualization populates with collected images of both rushing and languishing travelers over a specific period of time, thereby communicating the time of day to those passing through the space. This visualization appears over a network of monitors that border the space, literally surrounding the area where travelers pass through, serving as a subtle commentary about our physical flow through time and it’s simultaneous flow through our imagination.