Found Letters is a transmedia verse novel that translates history into fiction, immersing readers in the objects, documents, and letters a genealogist uses to reconstruct …
StoryWalks at Eldridge Street ~ Research & Revised Prototype
After sharing our first prototype with classmates at ITP and the Museum at Eldridge Street leadership team, we tweaked our design to incorporate some of …
StoryWalks at Eldridge Street ~ Audio Engine Research
I met with Hans-Christoph Steiner last Tuesday to explore software solutions that might power the StoryWalks mobile app. Hans is teaching this semester’s Programmatic Audio …
StoryWalks at Eldridge Street ~ User Testing
This semester, in collaboration with Anna Pinkas and Amy Stein Milford, Deputy Director of the Museum at Eldridge Street, I’ve been designing a site-specific audio …
Found Letters ~ Antique hack, phase two
This week I experimented with projecting animated handwritten text onto a number of surfaces. I started with glass — a clear glass tumbler, a green …
Found Letters meets Video Sculpture ~ Antique Hack, phase one
In Video Sculpture we were asked to use video projection to bring an antique to life. I choose to experiment with this letter box in …
Writing the Novel ~ Found Letters’ Kansas Research Trip
Some students spend spring break in exotic climes. I booked a flight to Kansas and spent four days driving through the state, researching Found Letters. …
Discover Great Buildings ~ Wireframes
My wireframes for the proposed new Great Buildings homepage and content page are inspired by the Bing search landing page and Flickr’s photo pages. On …
Glass & The Raven
Can you translate the essence of a physical work of art into a digital medium, like video? Assigned to create a piece of video art …
Discover Great Buildings ~ Redesigning www.greatbuildings.com
How do you transform a 1990s-era website into a photo-rich, community-supported, content-rich discovery portal? Break it down to its component parts and rebuild to showcase …
A Work of Glass
After an afternoon museum visit, I’ve decided to revise my original “Classics” concept for Video Sculpture and reinterpret a contemporary work by Javier Perez currently …
Programmatic Audio Final ~ iPad talks to PD via OSC
I joined Hans-Christoph Steiner’s Programmatic Audio class, in part, to learn how to talk to programmers. Since coming to ITP I’ve felt flummoxed by code, …