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 experience and interactive mobile application that will infuse the Eldridge Street Synagogue with the voices of past congregants, revealing its … Read More →
Category Archives: Art
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 that reinterprets a classic sculpture, I decided to use paint and plexi and treat the act of painting as performance. … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ ITP Winter Show 2011 (documentation)
ITP Winter Show 2011 December 18 & 19, 2011 Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich Listeners wander through our 9′ x 9′ space with a pair of headphones. Transient fragments of voices, papers rustling, poetry, and music emerge and evaporate as a result of the listener’s … Read More →
Negative Capability ~ Sculpting with light, Cubist-style
Description Negative Capability is a light sculpture that expresses the dialectic between a reader and a text, exposing the negative capability of meaning. Concept Development As passionate readers, we are intrigued by the way we interact with texts, with other readers, and with the story … Read More →
Refined User Experience Scenario & ITP Winter Show Submission ~ 2011
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich Chris and I have been meeting weekly via Skype since early October to develop a comprehensive design direction document for our eleven soundwalk movements. In November, we invited Kevin Bleich to join the project … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ Kinect Presence Sensing ~ Center of Mass Detection
Cabinets of Wonder Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich Because we would like the Volumes of Voices installation experience to be wires-free, we’ve decided to work with the Kinect sensor. To find out whether the Kinect can do what we imagine, Kevin and … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ Concept Development for a Site-Specific (ITP) Installation
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson NOTE: This project extends a concept developed at ITP during the 2011 spring semester in Daniel Perlin’s course, Sound and the City. Concept Volumes of Voices takes listeners on an immersive, musical journey through the New … Read More →
Perspectives on the American Nuclear Family (1776 – Present)
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger The definition of the American nuclear family is contentious. Does it include same-sex couples with adopted children, stepparents, stepbrothers, stepsisters, half-siblings, single parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, or others? This diorama explores the American family unit, from the country’s founding … Read More →
The Nightingale Archive ~ Fact or fiction?
Art of the Archive Professor Michael Connor EXPLORE THE NIGHTINGALE ARCHIVE Assignment Create a fictional archive based on material created from scratch or appropriated from another source. Present this archive in a way that offers an insight into the event or culture it purports to … Read More →
Refined User Scenario & ITP Show Submission ~ Interactive Letter Box
Collective Storytelling Professor Marianne Petit Collaborator: Kevin Bleich I drafted a new user scenario and elevator statement, then submitted the project for inclusion in the ITP Spring Show 2011. We find out on May 6th if it’s accepted. Project Summary Interactive Letter Box is an … Read More →
Collective Storytelling Final ~ Interactive Letter Box
Collective Storytelling Marianne Petit In-Class Presentation ~ April 20, 2011 Inspiration Inspired, in part, by a collection of letters my grandfather wrote my grandmother during World War II, and the work of Janet Cardiff and Heidi Kumao, Interactive Letter Box will explore the experience of … Read More →
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 course and has expertise in Pure Data (PD), a programming environment for audio and video processing. Pure Data is a … Read More →