Category Archives: Aankit Patel

Aankit Patel, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Energy, Jeffrey Feddersen, Michael Ricca, Projects

Daft Junk

Aankit Patel, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Michael Ricca

Solar Powered Music Making Robots made from items headed for the trash found in the Sub-Basement of TISCH

http://www.inventioninbrooklyn.com/daftjunk/

Description

Sustainable design with electronics can often begin with a conversation about cost, what are my energy costs? How much energy was used to create my materials? How much does it cost in energy and resources to break down my waste? We began from a place of using things that were abundant and not being used on the floor: Trash and Solar Power from the giant panel on the roof of TISCH.

From there we created Daft Junk two solar powered robots, made from trash, who make music powered by the sun. Our audience can control the robots using a control box that simulates distribution of power to each of the robot's component parts. We want to introduce the audience to the idea of a power budget, demonstrating how much can be done even while adhering to strict constraints, but in a fun and playful way.

Classes

Energy

Aankit Patel, Adam Parrish, Coding for Emotional Impact, Mimi (Yue) Yin, Projects, Reading and Writing Electronic Text

Centrality

Aankit Patel

Procedural poetry that invites the reader to take a more intuitive approach to 'meaning'.

http://www.aantiks.com/centrality/

Description

Meaning often lies in seemingly random events, in the chaos and messiness of life. Yet when we read, we try to get at the meaning by digging deeper, getting to the core or the center of the author's message.

Centrality uses the Wordnet lexicographical corpus, the dadaist cut-up technique, and Jabberwocky-esque nonsense to write a poem modeling the meaning of a single user-inputted verb. Using the very common statistical measure of centrality, the normal distribution, the poems juxtapose difference usages or senses of the verb with each other and nonsense. The effect hopefully invites the reader to treat text and language more intuitively, allowing context instead of deterministic definitions guide their understanding.

Classes

Reading and Writing Electronic Text, Coding for Emotional Impact

Aankit Patel, Daniel Shiffman, Jen Lowe, Math for Artists, Projects, The Nature of Code, Ziv Schneider

Face Planet

Ziv Schneider, Aankit Patel

Educating the public about how global ocean currents impact climate and climate change.

http://ziv.bz/?p=1544

Description

Professor Dave Holland's lab, part of the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science at NYU, is the site of a massive fluid dynamics simulator that he and his colleagues uses to study the effects of climate change on ocean water temperature among other things. The work is done as part of a network of scientists around the world studying different aspects of climate change and, given the increasing pace of climate change, is increasingly important to make transparent to the public. Luckily, Dr. Holland's lab is at street-level and surrounded by windows, making it one of the most accessible labs at NYU.

As ITP students we believe we have the range of skills to help bridge the gap between the science on the inside and the people passing by the windows wondering “What is going on there?”. Our foremost interest is to get passers-by to stop for 20-30 seconds (as they might in front a piece of art in a museum) and engage with the Dr. Holland's work.

We plan to build a simple interactive installation allowing users to understand the importance of ocean water temperature changes to climate science. Given how complex and opaque climate science is and must be, it is important to us to design an experience that builds fundamental blocks of understanding, complementing the science.

Classes

Math for Artists, The Nature of Code