Category Archives: Projects

Resonant Bodies

Thomas Broderick

Experience a singer's voice through vibrations in your own body.

http://yourfriendtk.wordpress.com/category/project-development-studio/

Description

Sit with a singer while they perform classical indian vocal music and experience the resonant bodies involved in the mechanics of the human voice. With wearable technology, the vibrations moving through the vocalist's body are transferred to the same places in the listener's body allowing them to connect more deeply with the physical act of singing. Resonant Bodies is an observation of the vocal techniques involved in indian ragas, which pay special attention to the movement of vibration through the body and are used to activate subtle energies in the performer.

Classes

Project Development Studio (Marina Zurkow), Rest of You

Serendicity

Jorge Brake

A mobile application that encourages serendipitous exploration and discovery of city neighborhoods.

http://jabrake.github.io/serendicity

Description

Serendicity is an attempt to upend the normative travel experience. Travelers often have a specific destination in mind when they arrive to a new city. Rather than taking the fastest route there, why not explore a more interesting one? Leveraging open APIs and frameworks, the mobile app generates walking routes based on location, time, and preferences. The end result: less structure, more serendipity, and hopefully a different travel experience.

Classes

Thesis

Hands

Ken Amarit

A music composition based video game where you can only die by winning.

http://www.ohmy.me/hands

Description

Hands is a music composition and video game. Layers of music are procedurally generated and played on top of each other as the game progresses, and it's your job to avoid the incoming hands. The song builds over the course of the game, but each time you're hit by a hand a layer of the song stops playing. Stay alive long enough to play the entire song and you'll be rewarded with death.

Hands is also an arcade machine installation/interface that I am building to play the game made from felt, wood, and arcade joysticks. It's a small standing pedestal with 2 joysticks that lets you play the game either with 1 player or 2 players. It will stand to be around 3'-4' tall and about 2' wide. It is a very non-traditional arcade machine.

Classes

Coding for Emotional Impact

EmoMap

WoonYung Choi, Inpyo Chang

Emotional coloring map

http://emo-map.herokuapp.com/

Description

Web-Physical prototype that helps users to keep journal their emotional states by putting them as “color” onto the map while they take pictures. Colors of dots are based on the activeness and value of positive or negative emotions that are analyzed by change of facial values – eyebrow width/height, mouth width/height.

Classes

The Quantified Self on Location

THREADBARE

Joelle Fleurantin

THREADBARE is an installation where the viewer must navigate a physical space to discover the narrative unfolding visibly and invisibly, within and without.

http://fleurantin.cc/projects/threadbare-1/

Description

THREADBARE is a story about a woman coming to terms with her self and her identity. The Woman is of a web, but not The Web. She exists in a space that is at once boundless and bounded by herself. Viewers navigate this space, tripping invisible threads (sensors) that reveal the images and the moments she struggles to hide.
The viewer's interaction mimics the The Woman's dialogue with herself; she fears intimacy yet as the viewer moves closer more of her story and self is revealed.

Classes

Bridging Worlds: Constructing the Immersive Space, Project Development Studio (Marina Zurkow)

energy to light

Kate Godwin, Yu Ji

This light overlays dynamic daily energy consumption data with annual per capita energy consumption data to show where and in what quantities we are consuming power.

http://make.kategodwin.com/post/84556320194/sculpting-energy-data-into-light-this

Description

We began with five years of UN Electrical Power Consumption per Capita data from 41 countries from the years 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, and 2011. To add another layer of meaning to this dataset we sorted the countries by the percentage of renewable electrical energy each country uses. Each data point has a pyramidal structure that was 3D printed in clear plastic to represent the former dataset. Each the 205 3D prints was sorted and then glued to a CNCed wooden frame.

Each printed data point will have a printed circuit with a surface mount LED. The brightness of the 41 sets of 5 LEDs will be controlled by an LED driver that is adjusting the intensity of the individual lights based on how much energy is generally consumed around the world at that time of day. One day will be mapped to ten minutes.

Classes

Circuit Design and Prototyping, Sculpting Data into Everyday Objects

What’s your secret?

Azure Tianran Qian  錢天然

As an experimental of non-linear story telling, the project contains the documentary film in an interactive wooden box, which has the memory-ralated objects that assembled in a poetic way.

Description

“What’s Your Secret” is an augmented reality installation that shares the stories of elderly woman. In the installation, the audience is presented with boxes and mementos, each with a live portrait and objects of the subject.

The stories revealed in the box share life’s experiences – good and bad – give people a choice of hearing the different parts of the story over time.

Classes

Project Development Studio (Marina Zurkow), Surveillance Documentary, Thesis

Suspicious Surveillance Camera

Adam Quinn, Sam Lavigne

A puppet-like surveillance camera, swivels, pivots, records and edits, based on face tracking.

http://lav.io

Description

Wanting to give the camera the physical attribute of suspicion, the camera is built on a rig that controls its motion. With facetracking software, it turns towards faces, capturing and displaying those images. It stops hiding behind darkened glass, and lets the surveilled know what it's doing.

Classes

Surveillance Documentary