Category Archives: Thesis

Gabe Barcia-Colombo, Projects, Sarah Rothberg, Thesis

Virtual Memory/Memory Memory

Sarah Rothberg

The future of memory in virtual reality?!

virtualmemorymemorymemory.me

Description

Virtual Memory/ Memory Memory is a series of researched-based art projects examining the relationship between memory, media, attention, loops, attention, media, and memory.

We make media-artifacts to help us remember, but often, media overtakes the memory itself.
Media and memory are stuck in complicated loops: changes in media result in changes in the way remember.

Considering all of the changes that digital media is bringing about, for my thesis, I asked: WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF MEMORY?

Memory/Place is a virtual reality reconstruction of my childhood home to house my mediated memories, and my memories of media.

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Heather Greer, Projects, Surya Mattu, Thesis

From The Dark

Surya Mattu

Anonymous data is a myth.

Description

From The Dark is a project that offers insight into the hidden mechanisms & power struggles within our current communications infrastructure. It brings to light the data we generate with our smart devices & what it reveals.

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Fandom: Pop Subcultures in a Digital Age, Heather Greer, Jing Zhao, Projects, Thesis, Zoe Fraade-Blanar

Pleashare

Jing Zhao

Pleashare is a web application that provides sex toy reviews for Chinese users. It encourages them to share their experiences and start conversations about their sexual pleasure.

http://www.xingzhiapp.com/

Description

Recently, Chinese women are becoming more open to sex, but their awareness of their own sexuality is still evolving. Sex toys help women’s sexual exploration, Pleashares helps them establish their sex identity and personal words in sex and sexuality discussion. With Pleashares, users can review sex toys, see other user’s experience of body exploration with sex toy, and build conversations based on collective hashtags. Through understanding how to get pleasure from their own bodies, women get to know themselves on their own and not just from others.

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Thesis, Fandom: Pop Subcultures in a Digital Age

Katherine Dillon, Projects, Thesis, Valerie Chen

Pippin

Valerie Chen

Pippin is a themed hard cider bar that recreates a series of historical periods significant to the story of cider in America.

http://thesis.itp.io/students/vjc258

Description

Apple trees are extreme heterozygotes: when grown from seed, instead of inheriting the characteristics of their parents, the traits of the new generation are wildly unpredictable. These capricious offspring are called pippins. Likewise, Pippin is a pop-up cider bar that takes on unpredictable forms. The entire space moves through three themes: an indoor garden paradise, a frontier log cabin, and an underground speakeasy. The themes correspond with historical moments that shaped the complicated relationship between Americans and the practice of drinking alcohol. The designs for Pippin's first iteration have been brought to life as a navigable digital environment where users can experience what such a place might look and feel like.

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Kathleen Wilson, Projects, Rafael Gross Brown, Thesis

Discarded Future

Rafael Gross Brown

A connected trigger video on climate change/sustainable development and individual engagement with these issues and climate change mitigation

http://www.rafagb.com/Thesis

Description

A website that hosts a connected trigger video. “Connected” refers to the fact that it uses the viewer's geolocation to embed content into the video, and to gather data about resources (local, individual action-based initiatives) that the user can engage in/with. It also gathers realtime headlines related to climate change, which are also embedded into the video. The video is 80 seconds long. The project will be presented using geolocation, and hardcoding different cities' geolocation to compare the final results (e.g., use Topeka, Los Angeles, or Albany as geo inputs).

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Nancy Hechinger, Projects, Sanniti Pimpley, Thesis

PrintO-Bot

Sanniti Pimpley

PrintO-Bot is an inkjet printer on wheels. This robot can print on almost any flat surface- no matter how large or what material it is made of. It is very cheap and you can even build it yourself!

sanni-t.com/printo-bot.html

Description

There's a lot of interest in the hobbyist & maker community regarding printing your own designs on a variety of materials for aesthetic purposes. The PrintO-Bot allows us to do this very easily on any reasonably flat surface- wood/stone/ fabric/PCB/ any floor.

The PrintO-Bot is essentially an inkjet printer hacked into, modified and put on wheels. The printer here has its nozzle on the bottom; we put the bot on the material on which we want to print and it starts printing while moving along the material. The bot moves to the next position after each print swath. Since the PrintO-Bot uses an existing printer, we send a print to it the same way as we send a print to our desk printers.

The PrintO-Bot is an open source initiative.

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Connected Devices and Networked Interaction, Heather Greer, Natasha Dzurny, Projects, Thesis, Tom Igoe

GLANCE

Natasha Dzurny

A simple kinetic display for personal information, at a glance.

http://just-glance.com/

Description

With the mass adoption of smartphones, wearables, and apps that collect personal data, so much is being tracked. Glance builds on the quantified self market to enhance the way collected data influences its users. It makes information more available, more relevant, and more beautiful by placing simple, iconic displays in meaningful places. Glance is a kinetic wall piece designed as home decor and includes a configuration app for multiple data sources. Using basic geometric shapes, the display is read quickly at a glance. As personal data becomes more mainstream, look to Glance for a relevant display of knowledge, understanding and inspiration.

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Connected Devices and Networked Interaction, Thesis

Heather Greer, Projects, Sam Slover, Thesis

Wrap Genius

Sam Slover

Wrap Genius is a new Web and mobile food labeling framework that gives people a more personalized look into their food.

http://www.wrapgenius.me/

Description

The food we buy matters. As our food systems become increasingly complex, the food we choose to consume affects not only our own health, but also the environment, our ethical framework, the Earth's biodiversity, and so much more. But much of the data of our food purchases remains opaque to us as end consumers. This isn’t good enough. So, I went on a mission to come up with something better. For 12 weeks, I carefully tracked all of my grocery purchases and created a new visual framework to better understand it all. Where does my food come from? What are my healthiest and unhealthiest choices? Which foods have GMOs? I created a Web and mobile dashboard that shows me all of this information and more. It's my dream food label, designed for the interests of consumers.

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Christina Carter, Gabe Barcia-Colombo, Projects, Thesis

RESTART MOTION

Christina Carter

RestartMotion is a tool for creating dynamic animations using images with common objects found on the web.

http://www.restartmotion.com

Description

Restart Motion explores the possibilities for creatively repurposing images abandoned in the digital world. Using images with common objects found on the web, Restart Motion is a tool for creating dynamic animations.

We take pictures to capture a moment but when we upload them to the web, the moment is lost as the picture becomes one of many in a massive catalog of similar images. How can meaning and motion be restored to these abandoned assets? Restart Motion, currently based in openFrameworks, is a software tool for creating animations using common objects in found imagery. Inspired by the process of stop-motion and aperiodic pattern formation, Restart Motion applies the process of repetition to generate a visual form that is far more complex and interesting than its constituent parts.

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Brooke Singer, Erika Maher, Kathleen Wilson, Marina Zurkow, Projects, Soil as Medium: Engaging the Urban Commons from the Ground Up, The Fungus Among Us, Thesis

Soil for the Air

Erika Hansen Miller

Soil for the Air is a platform for a crowd-sourced research project on soil biology, fungus, and climate change.

http://www.soilfortheair.org/

Description

Soil for the Air is a physical and digital platform for a crowd-sourced research project on soil biology, carbon-sequestering fungi, and climate change. The aim of Soil for the Air is to use the power of the crowd and the enthusiasm of citizen scientists to rally around an important cause – climate change mitigation – and to break down the wall between institutionalized science and the general public. In the process, the project hopes to make an important discovery about using agricultural soils to remove carbon from the air and store it below ground in healthy soils.

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The Fungus Among Us, Soil as Medium: Engaging the Urban Commons from the Ground Up, Thesis