A hologram memorial to the Legendary Biggie Smalls, aka Notorious BIG.
http://itp.junglebrains.com/hologram-biggie-smalls/
In 2012 Tupac appeared at Coachella in a live holographic performance.
In 2014 Biggie Smalls gets resurrected for ITP Spring show.
Live Image Processing and Performance
"Eyes in the back of your head": A compact, clip on camera and communication device that extends the user's scope of vision.
http://inventioninbrooklyn.com/BEACON/
Beacon is a durable clip on safety device that helps you see what’s coming up behind you. It consists of a proximity alert system that alerts and records visual data of your surroundings. When clipped on the back of your bag, it can also act as ‘eye’s at the back of your head’.
It bolsters your confidence while reporting a crime as it provides you with a visual recording of the activity around you.
Dynamic Web – Mobile
An interactive personal music video that let you dance with the animated art from the Cooper Hewitt collection.
**** This project would be a part of UX LAB: A journey into the Cooper Hewitt ****
**** Prefer you to watch this VDO https://vimeo.com/93448180 ****
Change perceptions of the museum from a boring and too conceptual place into a fun and interesting place through the Cooper Hewitt Museum website. The idea is… “Viewing art should be as fun as watching other web entertainments.” So, we are going to make the collection of the Cooper Hewitt come alive with a personal music video that integrates the art collection, song, together with your own move through a web cam.
How it works:
1. Enter the site.
2. Select the theme. (Each them has a few animated images and song.)
3. Learn about the collection before get started.
4. Start making your VDO.
5. Save or share your VDO.
6. Done and explore other collections.
Creative Javascript, Dynamic Web – Server, Mashups – Creating With Web APIs, User Experience Design
Mnemonic Table is a smart building sets which memorises all the past configurations, display them online and connects social networking.
http://www.mnemonic-making.com/
By creating different combinations of a piece of space, the players can develop their spatial language and poetry making ability, as well as social skills with other players. The players can place landscapes, people, and animals and keep displaying it in your house.
Initially what inspired me to create “Mnemonic Table” was the game of the chess. Specifically, the fact that there are so many people that have created various versions of the same figurines that represent the same pieces of play. The popularity of the game involves much more than just the theory behind it: tactile feedback, the materiality, the shape and the appearance of pieces also play a great role. Consequentially, architectural toys have always been quite popular from childhood to adulthood such as Eams’ ‘House of Cards’, Terada Mokei, and Legos. I wanting to create a new architectural educational-tech toy, as I am wondering why there are not more that are not more that exist at present.
Live Image Processing and Performance, Project Development Studio (Marina Zurkow)
Jewliebots is a set of interactive jewelry that can be programmed through a graphical interface, with the goal of raising girls interest in Computer Science and Technology.
Jewliebots is an open source library of wearables that allows users to customize their own electronic jewelry through a graphical programming interface. The goal is to engage and increase girls interest in the workings of technology by showing them that coding can be also beautiful.
Jewliebots are designed to be fashionable and attractive, gathering interest of girls from all ages. The hardware include LEDs, buttons and sensors that change aesthetics of the jewel according to the code uploaded. The jewel can be customized by generating algorithms through a block-programming style language. Circuits are embedded in 3D printed cases, baked polymer clay and laser-cut parts and it has been tested in bracelets, necklaces and phone cases.
Thesis
A diverse collection of works created by students with wildly different styles in this spring's Comics class.
This exhibition of works produced in Tracy White’s Comics class features pieces created by students using a wide range of artistic and storytelling techniques. Over seven weeks students explored different approaches to telling stories using pictures and words, and by the end each completed several short comics in their own unique styles that they had honed during the course. The collection gathered for the showcase contains everything from epic wars fought both on the battlefield and within the minds of soul-wracked characters, journeys into the underworld, as well as into the depths of the supermarket, and tales of betrayal, suspense, and children befriending monsters through the power of candy. Some of the works were drawn by hand using pen and paper while others were created with tablets and Photoshop. The students submitting works are from ITP, the Game Center, Steinhardt, and Stern and include Sharon De La Cruz, Devin Curry, Sharang Biswas, Marcelo Bravo, Elyssa Dole, Rena Anakwe, Alejandro Puentes, Clio Davis, Joelle Fleurantin, Allen Yu, and Caroline Sinders. Comics will be displayed as posters, some in black and white and others in color.
Comics
Come face-to-face with the online identities of thousands of former teen bloggers. Choose a character from the annals of LiveJournal, an all-but-defunct blogging site, and lead them on the most epic of journeys: a walk down a high school hallway.
The Adventures of Teen Bloggers combines the aesthetic of old-school graphic adventure games with the vapid, self-obsessed musings of teenagers circa 2005. Players pick one of millions of LiveJournal users to re-animate and lead on a walk through a high school hallway. When asked to interact with another character, players discover the strengths (or weaknesses) of their character: they can only say things that the LiveJournal user actually said on their blog all those years ago. By dredging up a LiveJournal user's blog posts, once written under the semblance of privacy but now free of context and wholly public, I will draw attention to the permanence of our lives on the internet and question how we choose to share what we share online.
Thesis
Sounds from the surrounding environment translated into a sonic landscape.
http://jffng.com/tune-in-tune-out
“Tune In, Tune Out” is a website that uses your computer's on-board microphone, listens to the surrounding environmental sound, and translates it into a musical landscape.
An accompanying visualization appears on-screen, along with options to change the musical fundamentals (key, scale, mode) of the sounds.
So much effort and energy has gone into our attempts to “escape” our immediate sonic environment: conversations, distracting noises, baristas banging out old coffee grounds from the espresso press. (Some of us have gone to the extent of buying “noise canceling” headphones to drown out the surrounding chaos).
But there's no denying the need / desire to focus, and there's also no shortage of aural distractions living in New York City. “Tune In, Tune Out” offers an alternative to the music and tools we use to tune out the noise around us, channeling that very noise into a musical landscape.
Mashups – Creating With Web APIs
MindCam is an application for Google Glass that takes their memorable moments automatically.
http://www.jiwonyoonworks.com/?p=505
This project is a part of Surveillance Documentary class. People usually take pictures when they want to record impressive views and situations. However, it takes few seconds to decide to take pictures and people easily miss the right moments because of the hesitation.
Mind Reading Camera allows users take pictures about their daily lives like a documentary photography. This application detects the movement of users by checking sensor values inside of Google Glass. When users see taken pictures, they would be surprised because the pictures show memorable scenes of them.
I want to take the same viewpoint as people look at with their eyes and google glass allows users shot their point of view.
Surveillance Documentary
An interactive musical notation and performance system based on color and shape.
http://www.jasonsigal.cc/portfolio/sonic-scrolls/
Sonic Scrolls is a notation system that generates music from drawings. The colors red, green and blue each represent a different musical instrument, and correspond with lower or higher pitches depending on their position in the “Sonic Scroll.”
You can draw a Sonic Scroll using red, green and blue pens and the templates I have provided. You are invited to perform your scroll with the “Scroll Singer”, a modified overhead projector by which you may control the speed and direction of playback. I designed a paper template for the Sonic Scrolls using Adobe Illustrator, and laser cut a piece of plexiglass to secure the webcam atop the Scroll Singer. I wrote the program in Max/MSP/Jitter.
I tested the first iteration earlier this year at a Beam Center workshop for kids. The primary feedback I received in my testing was that the character of a shape should impact the quality of its sound. For example, a jagged shape should sound more jagged, a big shape should be louder, and a long shape should have a slower decay. I am working with blob detection in computer vision to achieve this in my revamped Max/MSP/Jitter patch. I also developed a more engaging visual representation that I will project onto a wall. If the project is selected for the show, I would also take this opportunity to refine the physical interface of the Scroll Singer. Thank you for your consideration!
Live Image Processing and Performance