TITLE OF SESSION: ITP Applications PRESENTED BY: Danny Rozin DATE: 10/18/05 LOCATION:Cantor Film Ctr. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REAL-TIME NOTES: {If you've contributed, add your name, e-mail & URL at the bottom} INTRODUCTION artist in residence at ITP (duh). what is art? started as an industrial designer created computer peripherals for a decade. promotions != good Managing vs designing -- frustrating not to be designing Long turn around in industrial design 1994 came to NYC ITP Never felt like he was a great designer, compared to the designers that he worked with. Something clicked w/ Dan O'Sullivan, after p.comp. (there are a lot of "Dans" at ITP) felt more control over projects here at ITP, more creativity ensued designers not involved in self-expression? I think he meant he could do the design AND implementation- w/o handing his work over to someone else. ***Sorry, looks like we're the same color*** given the tools, something will open up that you didn't see before. SELF EXPRESSION Eventually wanted to create "self-expression" as opposed to Design; happened 3-4 years after being out of ITP, making "ART." Hard to describe self in known categories like "artist" MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL Mechanical // Software // Video Painting // Glass Mirror Sculptures // Proxxi Composites (prints) Wooden Mirror 1999 (took around a year to create) -- DP: this was the first I heard of ITP, I think on PBS or something Red helped pay for wooden mirror - how expensive?? A discussion on the divide between analog/digital, physical/virtual. (wooden mirror) "inflicting digital order on analog wood" "They call it hardware for a reason - it took me nine months to build this piece, and one afternoon to program it." After programming he yearned to touch some material. Trash Mirror (2001) -- 500 pieces of trash from streets of nyc, receipts from pockets, etc. surprised at the sounds, not an intentional aspect of the works; serendipitous byproduct Rozin tried to insulate the servos in the wooden mirror using foam because he thought the sounds would be annoying. Shiny Balls Mirror (2003) (very clever name) -- not currently installed to his satisfaction -- CF: I heard he sells these for $100K apiece Circles Mirror (2005) 900 circles 12 different patterns going from dark to bright in a circular manner some are in color, some in black and white. 3 ways to implement (gives himself a technical challenge * HOST computer connected serially to servo controllers * PIC Chip (embedded technology) CMUCam2 Vision Sensor 7 pic chips because of memory constraints. * Cell Phone connected to bluetooth serial adapter, camera on phone sends image out via Bluetooth -- that's cool I want to do that (JK:he ITP list recently posted about some *very* cool, very inexpensive bluetooth to serial chips) Doing things in microcontrollers is more robust -- when you get them working they tend to continue to work. That's not as true with computers. SOFTWARE MIRRORS started around 1999 or so. Interest in the digital image. meanings, personality, inhabitants Mirror #2 effect 2 (2001) Pixels move around relative to 'what they know' but have an initial X/Y. They are accommodating the image but at the same time they have their own minds, the pixels talk to each other. This has the net effect of distorting the image and creating a new vision. You go in and out of being able to see the mirror's reflection. Rather than fixed X/Y, they have fixed RGB values. Impressionistic net result. Mirror #5 2001 pac man pixels. open and close their mouth to reveal the image. interested in the personality of the pixels as individuals Second series that deal with issues of time. Hourglass mirror -- 2005 selection of the colors of your image seep down through the hourglass to create a colored layer sediment. A history of the visitors to the piece is revealed in the sediment below. "timeless" most digital things don't have a history. Simple rules govern all these projects, I like how you can understand them almost immediately.