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BioMusic

Mathura Govindarajan, Satbir Samantha Multani

An interactive installation that lets users control the music to change the bioluminescent response of microbes.

http://mathuramg.com/projects/biosem.html

Description

This project is an interactive installation that lets users play music and beats that change the pattern of the glow in the pyrocystis.
Pyrocystis is a microbe that is commonly found in the sea which responds to vibration. We use this property to our advantage by placing the pyrocystis on speakers whose membrane vibrate per the music being played. This in turn agitates the pyrocystis and causes them to glow. This behaviour can be manipulated by changing the music or beats that the user inputs through a series of buttons.

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Biosemiotics

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c o ( d e ) s i g n

Ella Dagan , Eve J Weinberg, Phil Guo, Juan José Egúsquiza, Leslie E Ruckman, Lindsey Johnson, Michelle Hessel, Martin Romero, Rebecca (Marks) Leopold, Shir David, Wipawe Sirikolkarn, Yan Zhao

An exhibition of 2D prints and sculpture objects, generated in code. The work represents the efforts of the students in the Spring 2016 section of Programming Design Systems, taught by Rune Madsen.

http://printingcode.runemadsen.com/students-spring-2016/

Description

c o ( d e ) s i g n is a collection of work made in the Programming Design Systems class. The two and three dimensional works represent a variety of applications for building designs purely with code. Each project represents a unique algorithmic approach to computational systems which solve a variety of design problems.

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Programming Design Systems

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Méroir

Jordan Frand, Nicole He, Paula Ceballos Delgado

Méroir is not an average mirror. It plays with aspects of life that the we take for granted: reality, time, and the sense of self.

http://www.itp.paulaceballos.com/progress-report-meroir/

Description

Méroir is a mirror that isn't a mirror. Coming from a combination of the French “mé-” (equivalent to the prefix “un-“) and miroir (“mirror”), méroir is an “unmirror” that makes you take a closer look and think twice about time, reality and your sense of self. Part of our inspiration for this project came from the work of Robert Irwin, whose art plays subtly with the limits of human perception. Méroir's effect is achieved using a two way mirrored acrylic, HD monitor, two hidden cameras, sound, and the video effect software Isadora. The lights around the mirror just burned out today, but the rest of it is working perfectly.

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Nothing: Creating Illusions

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explorejs

William Field

explore.js is an open-source software toolkit that helps designers, artists, teachers, and amateur astronomers visualize the cosmos.

https://explorejs.space

Description

explore.js is an open-source toolkit that helps designers, artists, teachers, and amateur astronomers visualize the cosmos. It is composed of a JavaScript library that consolidates various astronomy tools, a texture pack, and scripts to help manage API requests on the back-end.

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Thesis

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Dark Maze

Christina Choi, Jordan Frand, Mathura Govindarajan, Wangshu Sun

Dark Maze is a mind controlled maze that aids in memory and focus training.

http://mathuramg.com/projects/darkMaze.html

Description

Dark Maze is a playful exploration of the openBCI platform to create new human-computer interactions. Using “mind control,” our user can navigate through various tilt mazes in the physical world, without lifting a hand.

The openBCI software and hardware can read electrical signals from the brain, muscles and heart (EEG, EMG, and ECG, respectively).

To feign “mind control,” our user wears a headset which reads EEG, EMG and accelerometer data.

To initiate the maze, the user must “focus” and demonstrate high alpha waves to illuminate the otherwise “dark maze.”

When the lights turn on, the user can see the path ahead, and use hands-free control to progress.

To control movement within the maze, eye blinks trigger EMG signals which moves the ball left or right. To trigger up and down, the user tilts their head forward and backward.

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Body Electric

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20,580 Volleys

Ian Gibson

A collaborative exploration of what we've lost since 9/11.

http://icg226.itp.io:8081/map.html

Description

20,580 Volleys is a project born out of a personal fury at recent news that a majority of Americans support the use of U.S. ground troops in the fight against ISIS. As fewer and fewer folks bear the burdens of military service, the decision to support war becomes increasingly easier for many who have no connection at all to those who will have to fight when the times come. The piece looks to develop these connections by mapping data of those who have been killed in post-9/11 conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The main element is a projected map visualizing the hometowns, known duty stations, and places of death for military personnel killed while serving in post-9/11 operations. It begins blank. Data is drawn chronologically as users visit a separate page in a browser on their mobile devices. Here they will learn about the project and add the next fatal casualty to the map while receiving more information about who they were. Users will be able to collaboratively construct a timeline of wartime deaths while becoming more intimately connected with the story of a specific casualty.

The data comes from icasualties.org and was cleaned with OpenRefine and MS Excel. The map and phone interfaces were written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with the p5 library. A node server connects the pieces with web sockets. Web searches within the phone portion are conducted using DuckDuckGo.

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Data in Conflict, Live Web

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Roni

Chino Kim, Yifan Hu

Roni is a pizza that does sit ups.

http://chino.kim/roni/

Description

Is he your greatest motivation or your ultimate shame? Your most loathsome enemy or a mirror unto yourself? Only one thing is certain: no one can deny a little Roni.

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Readymades

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Through Various Hazards and Adventures We Move

Nicholas Hubbard

Can new media objects fashioned from a place’s past be used to complicate its history and the present of the people living there?

http://www.varioushazards.com

Description

A site-specific art engagement with the early history of Eureka, California. Derived from 3D models, constructed using documentary photographs of Fort Humboldt, built in 1853, taking the form of a series of expanded dioramas that change over time.

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Thesis

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Inner Art

Boram Kim

An art installation that moves a participant towards a meditative state by visually reflecting the participant’s inner state.

https://itp.nyu.edu/thesis2016/project/boram-kim

Description

This art installation interprets a participants’ bio data on a physical canvas mapped with LEDs. The visual experience guides the participant to a meditative state through the projection of relaxing movements and shadows. Maintaining good mental health is an important factor in improving the quality of our lives. Research proves that meditation is a great technique in alleviating and restoring medical conditions, like depression. As the individual interacts with a sensor plate, the white canvas visualizes their pulse data. Shortly after the participant's heart rate is detected, the flat fabric wall comes to life with different sized circles extruding out towards the participant. These movements will nudge the participant into following a recommended breathing pattern. With subtle guidance, the installation will help individuals feel positive and calm.

The moving parts consist of 25 organic shapes that are laser cut with acrylic and placed behind the fabric. As they move outwards, they will stretch the spandex fabric material and create a beautiful dynamic visualization at the speed of an ideal breathing pattern. Light above the installation helps create different illusions throughout the meditative experience.

In the connection between users and the installation, there are more than 160 LED's mapped behind the fabric to show each individual’s pulse data.

The production stage included design planning; sensor testing; fabricating the front and back part of the installation; and coding for the perfect pulse mapping and movement. The installation was showcased within Tisch, open for public viewing and testing on April 23.

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Transductions

Nicholas Bratton

How is time relayed to us through sound and light? Or, what song does a sundial sing?

Description

Transductions is a solar-powered electroacoustic sound sculpture using a gnomon and light sensors to explore the fluidity of time.

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