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Archive for April, 2008


Untitled

I choreograph performance works at the intersection of dance and sound, and consider the human voice not just a source of sound, but also a form of movement. With this project, I worked with dancers individually on sound-making exercises and used video footage of the studio process as content for a multi-channel video installation that is a dance in itself.

My thesis project is a dance performance that takes the form of a multi-channel video installation. As a choreographer, I am interested in emphasizing process, distance and mediation to expand definitions of choreography in an age of electronic communication and physical displacement. The studio process for this project consisted of...CONTINUE READING »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Nancy Garcia,Projects,Spring Show 2008,Thesis,Zurkow, Marina | Comments Off on Untitled

Autoblock#1 – Electrofountain

AutoBlock is a kinetic responsive system which its motion is inspired by an on-screen special effect.

It is a unit of a system which performs a simple folding motion. By combining in different shape and orientation, different structure can be built. In this first version, AutoBlock#1- Electrofountain, I am going to celebrate its motion by associate it with the motion of water fountain. The system will...CONTINUE READING »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Brucker-Cohen, Jonah,Catherine Tai,Mechanisms and Things That Move,Projects,Roberts, Dustyn,Spring Show 2008,Thesis,Thesis Spring 2008 | Comments Off on Autoblock#1 – Electrofountain

Mobile Karaoke

Mobile Karaoke is a mobile application that allows users to sing karaoke and shoot their own music video with the mobile phone devices in a playful way.

Mobile Karaoke is a mobile application using a Nokia phone and the J2ME programming language that allows users to sing karaoke with their mobile phone devices in a playful way. It requires players to sing along with the music in order to score points. In this application, a user can...CONTINUE READING »

The EM Brace

I am interested in situating the human body in relation to consumer electronics and communication technologies. The EM Brace is a wearable device for physically engaging with ambient electromagnetic frequencies emitted by electronic devices and general electrical systems.

The vast majority of work in the field of human-computer interaction has involved programming computers to better sense and understand our inputs, yet little work has been done in terms of how we humans can better sense and understand computers. Computers, and electronics in general, reach out to us through...CONTINUE READING »

Virtual Curator

Curatorial Bookmark-able and Customizable Virtual Space

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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Canetti, Sergio,Projects,Spring Show 2008,Thesis,Thesis Spring 2008,Tonio jungho Jung | Comments Off on Virtual Curator

The Amazing Rigatoni

An interactive, animated storybook about a couple of circus performers and a chance encounter.

A writer and web designer by trade, I have recently fallen in love with animation. I discovered the medium during my master’s studies at NYU.

I find animation to be a direct and literal way to communicate an idea or tell a story – with absolute freedom of...CONTINUE READING »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Meredith Silverman,Projects,Smith, Sharleen,Spring Show 2008,Thesis,Thesis Proposal Spring 2008,Thesis Spring 2008 | Comments Off on The Amazing Rigatoni

Lost|Found

Uses sound, physical performance, and the visceral tension of the Rope&Pulley instrument to explore the cycles of one man\'s life.

Simple materials and interfaces can lead to engaging performances and interactions. \"Rope&Pulley\" is a performance tool which combines media playback with large expressive gestures in physical space. Originally prototyped using recycled cardboard and old computer parts, the system was built with the idea that digital technology allows us...CONTINUE READING »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Michael Chladil,Papadopoulos, Despina,Projects,Spring Show 2008,Thesis,Thesis Spring 2008 | Comments Off on Lost|Found

Moving Parts: the Interdependence of Game Play and Social Dynamics in Digital Games

Moving Parts is a hybrid physical/video pinball game that uses simple rule variations to elicit different kinds of social interactions between players.

Moving Parts is a hybrid physical/video pinball game designed to evaluate some of the effects of simple variations in rules, mechanics, and scoring on social dynamics between players. It consists of a two-player pinball table with physical buttons and plungers, and a video display projected onto the tabletop.

Working...CONTINUE READING »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Daniel Soltis,Projects,Spring Show 2008,Thesis,Thesis Proposal Spring 2008,Thesis Spring 2008,Zurkow, Marina | Comments Off on Moving Parts: the Interdependence of Game Play and Social Dynamics in Digital Games

Tuist

an emotionally driven multi-mode musical interface for \'super-star\' wannabe\'s incapable of playing musical instruments.

Tuist is an emotionally driven interface taking on our inner desires and fantasies of instantaneously becoming superstars and on our instinctive imitation of the musical performers gestures as expressions of sounds.
It\'s a multi-instrument minimal interface featuring multi-track gesture recording/ playback allowing for \'one-man-band\' performances. Its different instrument modes can...CONTINUE READING »

CyranoSuit

CyranoSuit is a wearable device to help a shy man to express his feelings in conversation with his beloved female.

We are eager to communicate with the people through various methods; phone conversation, instant messanger, textmessage. However, the contents of the conversation still remains as ours to chose. Then,what about things that remain and were not communicated? What abut things hard to be verbalized because of our \'vulnerable emotional state\'?CyranoSuit...CONTINUE READING »