Category Archives: Intro to Computational Media

The Kiss

Interactive Letter Box ~ Progress Log and Prototype Demo for Final Project

Introduction to Physical Computing Professor Dan O’Sullivan Introduction to Computational Media Professor Danny Rozin Concept Inspired, in part, by a collection of letters my grandfather wrote my grandmother during World War Two, and the work of Janet Cardiff and Heidi Kumao, “Letter Box” explores the … Read More

A black and white image of a World-War-II-era telegram, handwritten letters, and photographs of a family

Interactive Letter Box ~ Technical Considerations for Final Project

Introduction to Physical Computing Professor Dan O’Sullivan Introduction to Computational Media Professor Danny Rozin User Experience: Proof of Concept Prototype You see a large, rectangular piece of paper on the table in front of you. A desk lamp shines light on the page, revealing three … Read More

Picture of sheets of notebook paper in orderly piles on which words have been written

Interactive Letter Box ~ Concept Development for Final Project

Introduction to Physical Computing Professor Dan O’Sullivan Introduction to Computational Media Professor Danny Rozin User Experience Imagine: A dim room. A light shining down on a closed cigar box decorated with stamps. You open it and find inside a jumble of letters, still in their … Read More

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ICM Midterm ~ “Matilda in Streetscape, April 1944″ as Interactive Sound Story

Introduction to Computational Media Professor Danny Rozin I came to ITP to ask — and to try to answer — the question: “What does it mean to be a writer in the digital age?” Beyond social media marketing and experimentation with publishing digital books, I … Read More

TextErasure

Presence and absence

Introduction to Computational Media Professor Danny Rozin In 2008 I interviewed poet Karla Kelsey about her second book of poetry, then forthcoming from Ahsahta Press. In Iteration Nets, a book-length investigation of the sonnet form, Kelsey layers sequences of poems, paying special attention to the … Read More

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Text as Art

Introduction to Computational Media Professor Danny Rozin I spent time this week thinking about the visual aspects of text. I have for a long time been fascinated by the way words create images for a reader. I’ve wondered whether the impact of those self-created (or … Read More