{"id":3661,"date":"2024-08-01T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/news-experiences-installations-and-tools-ima-low-res-graduates-sho\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T16:00:03","slug":"news-experiences-installations-and-tools-ima-low-res-graduates-sho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/news-experiences-installations-and-tools-ima-low-res-graduates-sho\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiences, Installations, and Tools: IMA Low Res Graduates Showcase Works at Thesis ’24 Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Interactive Media Arts Low Residency (IMA Low Res) Master\u2019s Program, jointly offered by NYU Tisch School of the Arts and NYU Shanghai, hosted its \u201cThesis \u201924 Show\u201d on June 20 and 21 at the NYU Shanghai New Bund Campus. This year\u2019s show featured innovative and immersive projects by Class of 2024  from seven countries, highlighting students\u2019 technical skills, artistic vision, and personal insights. The two-day show attracted NYU alumni, broader university community as well as professionals from the design, art, and technology fields.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Visitors are experiencing the interactive installations designed by the IMA Low Res Class of 2024.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Xinyan Xu\u2019s works The Walks<\/i> use audio and walking as an invitation for listeners to rediscover, interact with, and forge a personal connection with the urban environment. The Walks are a series of soundwalks, 60, 16, and 06 minutes long, focusing on audio experiences in non-places.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pim Tournaye\u2019s Improvisational Syntax<\/i> is a running inquiry into co-creation in Human-Computer Interaction, through the medium of free improvisation. By playing with the dynamics of musical language, human and non-human agency, and transparency, the project uncovers the social conversation to be had with machines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mishka Morgan\u2019s YUCKY WORLD<\/i> is an immersive digital experience where players, embodying the \u201cyucky girl\u201d, navigate through a dreamlike content graveyard, created in poetic response to the growing pains and emotional turmoil of a social media-obsessed adolescence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zhuo Cheng\u2019s project invites people to journey aboard a brave sailing vessel as Floatineer<\/i>, tasked with building homes atop the ever-shifting waters. Users prepare to explore treacherous realms, facing the fury of nature’s wrath. With each block placed, they build resilient havens for diverse inhabitants, each with their own tales to tell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feifan Qiao\u2019s Glitch<\/i> is an interactive VR experience that simulates a museum tour to critique misogynistic practices in the cultural industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Annika Santhanam\u2019s PANO<\/i> is an answer to OMNY, the surveillance capitalist manager of public transport in New York City. The PANO<\/i> machine is an autonomous data-scrambling machine that fights harmful data practices by offering a solution outside of the system, using community-oriented action to keep people safe and their privacy private. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jiang Hao\u2019s Critique of Everyday Life<\/i> crafts a visual performance using clips from everyday life, seeking to explore Henri Lefebvre\u2019s philosophical work Critique of Everyday Life<\/i> through a perceptual narrative approach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Caity Croft\u2019s The Eternal Game<\/i> is an evolving transmedia conceptual framework that exists in several forms: (1) a framework and series of tools to design your destiny; (2) a video series prototype imagining what the Spatial User Experience (UX) could look like if The Eternal Game<\/i> quests were played in Extended Reality; (3) an AI music model you can play and remix, which is generated from my music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ella Pan\u2019s Stray<\/i> is an interactive video installation about the experiences of stray animals living in environments altered by human activities, and discusses the relationship between stray companion animals and human society. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Eric Rabinowitz\u2019s Lentil<\/i> is a user-friendly multimedia web editing and publishing tool allowing non-technical creators to use the latest web platform capabilities for personal and community-oriented projects. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Phil Guo\u2019s Vision Canvas<\/i> is an AI-driven tool that translates spoken information into real-time visual narratives, simplifying complex ideas for universal understanding. This tool is an experiment for educational settings, corporate meetings, and any scenario requiring clear communication to spark conceptual thinking and co-creation. Vision Canvas<\/i> fosters engagement, aids memory, and aligns teams by providing a visual common ground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chucen Chen\u2019s Love as an Everyday Practice<\/i> is an interactive installation that explores the definition of love and its representation as a daily practice. The artist creates an immersive environment reflecting the complex interplay between intimacy and fear in love by incorporating visual expression, storytelling, and traditional art methods, inviting viewers to engage with and reflect upon their own experiences of love and memory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lisha Yan\u2019s project The Vessel<\/i> is an immersive video installation capturing the poetic and chaotic intersections of motherhood, art, work, and social media, offering a humorous and critical lens on the complexities of modern life and identity as a mother in the digital age.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Liyanbing He\u2019s Forgiveness<\/i> is an interactive narrative film game that narrates the subsequent story of a school bullying event. You decide what you see in the film. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anastasia Dor\u2019s Face to Meet You! (\u7ed9\u4e2a\u9762\u5b50) <\/i>explores the tension between what we show, what others see, and what happens inside us. The artist both pays homage to her Russian heritage and gradually reveals layers of her auto-fictional self through the Matryoshka sculptures. The installation asks the audience to contemplate the toll of projecting a particular image of oneself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Grace Song\u2019s Enchanting Metamorphosis<\/i> is an interactive art installation offering the experience of becoming a magical girl through wearable technology and a Ball Jointed Doll. Through digital stories and an interactive game, users get to experience a magical transformation from the virtual into reality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elisabeth Schifrin\u2019s From: To: <\/i>Considering the factory conveyor belt as a critical site of human-machine relationships, Dim Factory of Variable Production reconstructs this mass manufacturing machine to reveal different ways of being, both human and synthetic, in an attempt to propose an alternate automated future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Angel Li\u2019s ON\/OFF CAMERA<\/i> is a live streamer simulation game that reflects on the culture of the live streaming industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Robi Abera\u2019s Boundary Dynamics<\/i> is an interactive storytelling experience where two players, a performer and an audience participant, swap between three characters to explore a shared virtual world from their unique perspectives. Players can collaboratively build a narrative, blending elements of machinima, live streaming, and live performance. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yvonne Wu\u2019s Reborn<\/i> is a web-based, visually interactive comic for teens about death education, which is told from the perspective of Lily, a young girl who died of brain cancer at the age of 14. She posthumously tells the story of how her own parents gradually moved on from the grief of losing her, their own daughter, and eventually regained their lives while embracing love and spreading it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kami Karras\u2019 Something Old, Something New<\/i>: Soft, playful, and approachable creative technology education and community exercised through a print publication called techi3.club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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David Nuff\u2019s Perfume Clock<\/i> is a clock that smells the time. Or you smell the time through it. It…scents the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cate Boillat\u2019s Is it lost on you?<\/i> is an exploration of how interactivity affects the way music is experienced through the lens of an interactive music video for her song, \u201cIs it lost on you?\u201d Users can click and\/or drag objects that are tied to and alter the audio, working together to further illustrate the song\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jaiden McCran\u2019s The Things I Carry <\/i>is a video installation that provides a glimpse into the experiences of navigating girlhood online from the perspective of a fangirl. Both a personal reflection and a communal expression, depicting the physicality and weight of these collective experiences of both the fangirl media culture and the contemporary digital culture consumed at the given time symbolically as items in a bag. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Maryse Lango\u2019s The Dark Child<\/i> is a VR experience that brings to life a poem about embracing racial and cultural identity, emphasizing the power of self-acceptance and spirituality. It features a 3D printed bust of the artist alongside AI-generated images of her face altered to fit European beauty standards, highlighting the tension between societal expectations and personal identity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Amber Chen\u2019s Redecorating<\/i> is a reframing of the artists\u2019 childhood\/current room, a space that became stagnant for her through having so many experiences in the same setting, into a newly personalized space of imagination and immersion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rebecca Sweigart\u2019s tetrachroma<\/i> (\u56db\u8272)<\/i> is an assistive augmented reality experience that uses color theory and color look-up tables to reduce anxiety and create emotional stability for individuals in everyday scenarios where there may be overwhelmed by visual stimuli. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Michelle Lee\u2019s (in)tangible being<\/i> is an installation about self-conception, exploring the lines between physical and digital which has been blurred by our mundane encounters with digital devices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Maram Magdi Mohamed\u2019s Empower Her Return<\/i> is a spatial experience prompting reflection on the repatriation of artifacts, focusing on the Ancient Egyptian artifact Nefertiti. It leverages an empty display room to convey the concept of repatriation, evoking empathy and critiquing museum practices by highlighting hidden colonialism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jonny Sabbath\u2019s Living Vision<\/i> is an AI tool exploring the future of how brands come to life. The tool features image generation, storyboarding, and animation capabilities. With custom brand models, the tool develops content trained on a given brand\u2019s visual identity, rather than generic mass-market AI imagery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ian Hawkins\u2019s Prophylactic Distraction<\/i> is a meditation experience that distracts you, so you don\u2019t have to distract yourself. Freeing you from the self judgment that can come from losing focus, the piece aims to help you better focus on the core of the meditation experience. Refocusing. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ryan Cady\u2019s Obsolete Aesthetics<\/i> is about the process and the importance of your own limitations, personal experiences, and the value created from your mistakes. To contrast this, the artists reverse engineered the soundscapes he made through idiosyncratic processes with obsolete tools, using prompt based AI tools, with unintended results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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IMA Low Res is a unique one-year graduate school experience in creative and purposeful application of technology that offers three site-specific sessions across New York University\u2019s global network in New York, Berlin, and Shanghai, interspersed by two semesters of online learning.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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