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: Interactives
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 →
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 →
Thesis Proposal ~ Found Letters: Jack & Matilda
Found Letters: Jack & Matilda is a fictional love story told through letters that engages the reader in the art of narrative-building, the creation of character, and the moment of discovery. This interactive novel-in-verse begins in print, extends to the digital page, and finishes as … 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 →
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 →
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 →