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 her family story. This proof-of-concept prototype reveals one of the seven media channels through which this story is told: a … Read More →
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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 their suggestions. In general, we worked to make a clearer connection between the congregant’s voices and the visual landmarks on … 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 →
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 experience and interactive mobile application that will infuse the Eldridge Street Synagogue with the voices of past congregants, revealing its … Read More →
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 glass lamp, a bottle of perfume — to see how the glass caught the image and diffused the light. I … Read More →
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 order to test a variety of ways these materials might be animated by media. What follows is my one-page write-up … Read More →
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. My mom joined me as driver, research assistant, and plot consultant. Together, we perused historic documents, discovered narrative possibilities, and … Read More →
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 the homepage, I imagine users arriving to find a refreshed image of a building pulled from the Great Buildings collection. … Read More →
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 →
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 crowdsourced images accessible through simple, persistent navigation. This week: Site analysis, concept sketch, and flow diagram. Next week: Wireframes.
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 on view at the the Museum of Art and Design in a show called Glasstress New York: New Art from … Read More →
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, maybe because I see how powerful it is. I understand certain principles but when it comes to executing my own … Read More →