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 →
Category Archives: Storytelling
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 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 →
The Fountain of Memory ~ Re-Visioning the Fontaine Saint-Michel
Built between 1858 and 1860, the Fontaine Saint-Michel presides over the entrance to Paris’s Latin Quarter. Known both as meeting place and wishing well, crowds gather at the fountain in all weather. One might see someone turn their back and toss a coin over their … Read More →
A Study in Influence ~ Days of Heaven and Terrence Malick’s Magic Hour
As part of my thesis, I’d like to create a system of expressive techniques that bring poems off the page in a way that is not quite theater, not quite art installation, and not quite public reading, but which incorporates elements of all of these. … Read More →
Found Letters ~ “Poster Show” ~ Alumni Feedback
Feedback ~ Kathy Wilson ~ Thesis Advisor With regard to writers innovating around the reading experience, there is the idea that without pain, there is no change. Writing is not feeling the pain caused by technology as much as publishing is, that’s why writing innovation … 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 →
Found Letters ~ Thesis Proposal
The Idea Found Letters : Jack & Matilda Elevator Statement Found Letters: Jack & Matilda is a work of historical literary fiction and an environmental reading experience that follows a World War II-era couple, Jack and Matilda, from occupied Paris to post-war rural Kansas, engaging … Read More →
Found Letters ~ Thesis Development ~ Reflections on a Conceptual Sketch
After developing a quick sketch to visualize the concept for Found Letters’ immersive installation, I did a thirty minute freewrite to unlock new questions and explore various avenues of approach. My notes follow. Is the experience of immersion self-contained? Is it a single-user or multi-user … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ Case Statement
Cabinets of Wonder Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich For our final Cabinets of Wonder assignment, we were asked to prepare a concept proposal for a new museum or exhibition and present this as a printed case statement like the kind made by … 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 →
Found Letters ~ Video Sculpture Final
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 →