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Red Hook Live Poultry
During the end of Winter Break 2013 I visited a live poultry place in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Back to Research and the Road Traveled page.
Research and the road traveled
I started thinking about this thesis project by exploring the broad topic of Food. Through investigating the broad reaches I hoped it would lead me to unexpected results during this 14 week thesis process. I knew couldn’t indulge in everything but I tried to be diverse with my curiosities. These are initial sketches looking into [...]
Final
Based on the idiom ‘You Are What You Eat,’ this thesis is a thematic dining experience that guides the invited guests through the process of food production, in particular, to take on the perspective of the food they are enjoying at that moment. This meal is about chicken, being told through an industrialized farm setting. [...]
Digital Periscope
Project by Michelle P Boisson, Kaitlin Till-Landry and Tak Cheung with tremendous help from Mark Breneman. (currently this is how we’ve resolved our viewing apparatus for now.) Our final group project for this class was to design something for the residential building at the corner of Columbus Circle, 240 Central Park South. We had unprecedented [...]
Projection, background subtraction
3D Sensing Projection substitution using the Kinect. There are 2 movies playing at the same time. Whenever keypressed == true, the pointcloud threshold is reset. All the pixels are grabbing from the first movie until there’s something in the physical scene. Whenever there’s a pointcloud infront those pixels will be directed towards the second movie. [...]
Ethnographic Research
Project with Ali Sajjadi, Sae-wook Huh and Engin Ayaz. We were asked to gather ethnographic data. So we choose the ITP House where several of our classmates lives. The assignment called for us to be in character to a scenario. We approached the space and project as an arts collective, looking to transform the residential [...]
Sensor Network xBee with temperture
Exercise with Manuela D’Awesome and Michelle Boisson. Building Wireless Sensor Network Ch 5.
Focus Group
We went as a group to interview 3 residents of 240 Central Park South. This is the building where we’ll be doing our final project and we were there to gather some insight of possible projects. The 3 tenants married couple in mid-fifties (Lynn and Ralph) and one single woman also in her mid-fifties (Gabby). [...]
xBee doorbell
Working with xBee, configuration. in Building Wireless Sensitive Networks, ch 1-3. Pg 37. Using X-CTU in PC, set the xBee’s Pan id. Also set which is Collector or Receiver. Pg 51. Using CoolTerms, to set receiver/communicator’s destination. ATID -> PAN ID, should be 4 digits, ie 2105 ATDH -> destination, ie 0013A200 ATDL -> destination, [...]
Observation – Sensitive Buildings
Project with Phil Groman, Monica Bate and Manuela D’awesome. Our first assignment we’re asked to go out and observe, record what we find and trade with a different group and compare results. We choose the courtyard of the Brooklyn Museum and Grand Army Plaza. Brooklyn Museum Grand Army Plaza at Prospect Park. Overall we found [...]