ITP Spring Show 2018



Haptic Wayfinding Bracelet
Vidia Anindhita, Sandy Hsieh
Wayfinding wearable device and mobile app that translates turn by turn directions to haptic vibrations to safely guide visually-impaired users to their desired destination.
Mtindo
Koji Kanao
'Mtindo' is a style transfer application for the desktop that offers non-technical people a unique opportunity to experience machine learning in action that explores some of the practical potentials of style transfer, beyond the game-like applications that are currently available. 'Mtindo' means style in Swahili<br /><br /><br /> I've often wondered what a self-portrait drawn by Van Gogh in the style of Picasso might look like and how I'd feel about it. Obviously, this never happened because Van Gogh died in 1890 when Picasso was just nine years old so we will never know for sure. Van Gogh never had a chance to see Picasso's art. Today, however, with texture synthesis techniques developed by Gatys et al. we have the potential to come close to simulating this possibility. We can combine an image created in one style with an image created in a different style to generate a new image with the content of the first image, but the style of the second. In this way, with style-transfer techniques, we can make a self-portrait painted by Van Gogh, Picasso-ish.
1968 Washington Square Park
Ilana Pecis Bonder
A site-specific augmented-reality experience that transports the user back in time to 1968 Washington Square Park.
byte
Arnav Wagh, Lauren Race, Lucas White
Social media is predominantly visual. Byte is a social media platform that is purely auditory, designed specifically for the low vision community.
Panopticon
Barak Chamo, Tong Wu
A surveilling installation that confronts the audience with the panopticon of digital age
Polynote
Itay Niv
â–£ polynote â–£ is a multiplayer musical AR experience generated by random notation from a web server between multiple players.
the Crossings 渡
Siman Li
<br /><br /> The Crossings 渡 is a multidimensional installation that uses visual, aural and olfactory interpretation of the buddhist concept relief. Using projection, sound and human body to stimulates the audience’s imagination that is abstract, ancient, futuristic and poetic.
QWERTY SYSTEMS
Sam Hains
QWERTY SYSTEMS is a voice-controlled video installation depicting a mysterious platform intelligence that has hijacked our entertainment systems
Painting Mirror
Ellen Nickles
Move the pieces and assemble your reflections in this interactive Cubist mirror. How many ways can you put yourself together?
Messed-up Dating
Ye Lu
Interactive video of a non-linear comedy.
Breathe With Me
Samantha Schulman
Breathe With Me is a wearable t-shirt that leverages the expansion and compression of pneumatics to encourage the wearer to focus on and control their breathing during moments of panic and anxiety.
BrainWave
Ivy Huang, Joohyun Lee, Ridwan Madon
An Interactive Experience for users to understanding the imbalance situation in human brain.
Perfect Housewife
Yihan Chen
A toolkit of mechanical machines designed for a fictional feminine role, Perfect Housewife is an installation that examines entrenched ideas about woman’s household labor. It offers resistance through humor and self-examination.
Invisible Sculptures
Yeseul Song
Invisible Sculptures is an experiment that challenges human perception with sculptures that can only be “seen” by senses other than vision. The audience will incorporate different sensory abilities and activate their imagination to interact with the sculptures made of sound, temperature, and smell.
Climate Change Twister
Brandon Newberg, Jiyao Zhang
A game of twister, in the year 2100.
NYC Beats
Rushali Paratey
A web art experiment for New York’s iconic subway musicians and their underground audiences, nycbeats.xyz explores how to connect these artists in real time to engage their spectators via crowdsourced location information populated on a 3-dimensional map.
Greeting Booth
Anthony Bui, Nick Wallace
What's in a greeting? Exploring relationship dynamics in everyday interactions
Plop
Jesse Simpson
Plop is a physics based sound application used to generate unique musical scores based on sound synthesis and samples.
"Sygnómi"
Alexia Kyriakopoulou
Sygnómi (Greek for “I’m sorry”) is an interactive VR experience exploring the memories of a victim of domestic abuse. Sygnómi attempts to explain and educate the audience about the depth and complexities behind domestic abuse in more nuanced and unexpected ways.
SnapVR
William hallett
Composed of a design fiction short film, an avatar-rigged 360 mockup, and some service design deliverables and branding, the project (Snap VR) is a speculative social communications platform for virtual embodiment sharing, where users can record experiences and share them via avatar rigged 360 videos.
Interior Design with Machine Learning
Zahra Khosravi
Interior design color predictor will learn user's selection pattern and predicts and matches the color combinations for furniture (3 color options) and interior wall paint (unlimited number of randomly generated options) using machine learning. Users enter their choices using a touch screen platform.
Rocket Slinger
Lucas Chung, Shreiya Chowdhary
An ITP arcade game that teaches you the fundamentals of orbital trajectories using rockets!
Manifest Energy
Jasmine Soltani
A series of artifacts that explore the limitations and opportunities for ecologically sustainable computing, with a focus on the energy consumed in the production of our digital devices.
MaiSpace
Mai Arakida Izsak
MaiSpace invites you to wander through a virtual place that is accessible to a global community on the VRChat platform, and to explore future possibilities of fostering personal connections in a fully digital universe.
Amazing Lanterns experience
Meicheng Jia, Yu-Hao Ko
This is a new genre of social media in VR world.
BOOM!
Ji Young Chun, Namsoo Kim
A playful AR app that brings any object that has a detectable 'face' to life by placing user's speech balloon next to the face.
AR Crystal Ball
Eva Chen
Let the magic happen.
Expressive Tactile Controls
Hayeon Hwang
What if physical controls such as buttons, dials and sliders had more expressive personalities? How could this inform and deepen our interaction with them? ‘Expressive Tactile Controls’ is a series of reactive tactile controls designed to react to their user in a variety of ways. This is a playful investigation into pushing the limits of our controls.
Live in Concert
Aidan Nelson
A virtual reality experience in which you've got to show up and make the best of a weird situation.
Misundersthood
Terrick Gutierrez
Misundersthood is an interactive installation hoodie/narrative that addresses the issue of police brutality.
An Egg and a Banana but Abstract (Sound Object Series)
Katya Rozanova
These are objects that emit sounds when set in motion.
Feel a Watt
Daniel Castano
What about if I tell you, earth consumes 18TW. Energy is a difficult concept to explain and more difficult to visualize. Feel a Watt! will help the users to sense the concept of energy in a better way by using data visualization, analogies and interactive simulators at real scale. The user will understand how a Watt, KiloWatt, MegaWatt or GigaWatt look like.
Commodity Fetishism
Miao Tian
The purpose of this project is to create an emotional linkage between overconsumption due to our social mentality and its harmful effect .
Talking Stone
Roland Arnoldt
A stone talks to humans when they are in tune with the language of the universe - true randomness.
The Soul Reader
Dan Oved
The soul reader uses the focus of a viewer's gaze to generate imagery that's a reflection of their subconscious.
Living Canvas
Nathier Fernandez, Shreiya Chowdhary
Living canvas is a living sculpture. A map that explores [ITP] cohabitation and the impact of a shared microbiota. Its main purpose is to visualize the invisible organisms and recognize patterns through data, sample collection and [bio] material.
Harmony from Chaos
Sam Chasan
Use fluid motions to control what appears to be a tumultuous ecosystem.
Deconstruction mirror: a bend in space and time
Sofia Suazo
Deconstruction mirror is a mirror installation that makes your reflection stretched and melt, as if the aspect of reality was being pulled and shifted by a change in the laws of a physic.
Conjure VR
Barak Chamo
A make-believe playground in virtual reality, say what you want and it will appear!
Mimosa
Ridwan Madon
Mimosa is a wearable technology jewellery for women to distract creepy stares on their bustline.
ONE ZERO
Dongphil Yoo, You Jin Chung
Two laptops play hypothetical ping pong game.
Applying AR to Cardiac Rehab
Ran TIAN
"Heart health" is an argument reality health platform to deliver education and improve medication Adherence
SOMATAROT
Erin Cooney, Kimberly Lin
Inside the SOMATAROT experience, you process your reading through the embodied oracle dance guided by mysterious holographic sibyls.
Picasso in 2018
Lu Wang
Broken the masterpiece from Picasso under the computer age.
Faceblurk
Chelsea Chen
All the mosaic pixels as a whole paint the landscape of digital surveillance state, which is a blurred image of depersonalization.
The Handy
Adekemi Sijuwade
A soft robotic glove prosthetic to help those with neuromuscular disorders.
VUJA DE
Yuqiao Qin
Vuja De is a virtual reality experience that explores the connection of virtual and physical space. It is a 3-minute-long interactive voyage through the cycle of life, which creates an embodied experience by creating an emotionally compelling world that respond to the user’s breathing.
2345
Eva Chen, Ella Chung
A VR Game experience for you to explore the space ship and try to figure out WHO YOU ARE!
Open Kinetics: Move, Play, Lean
Nathaniel Padgett
Open Kinetics are low cost kits that inspire learners of all ages to explore programming and electronics through movement-based play. The aim of Open Kinetics is to create an affordable, accessible, engaging platform that teachers can easily bring into their classrooms to foster technological agency in their students.
Solar Powered Art installation
Anita Mbabazi
Solar powered World Energy Art installation
In Orbit
Ayal Rosenberg, Isabella Vento
An installation that provides a journey to the viewer into the illusion of "green" digital consumption.
Missing 10 Hours :: Multi-ending Social VR Piece
Fanni Fazakas, Huiyi Chen
Missing 10 Hours is a social VR experience that exposes realities that many are familiar with but not many talk about.
Reactive Display
M.H. Rahmani
A display that reacts, zooms-in, and shows you more when you take a closer look.
SELF POOL
Carlie Yutong Zhang
Which one is the real self? Body? Voice? Face? Or others’ judgements? How can audience’s body be used as a readymade material for the art piece and perform the role of “others”?
Five to Nine
Brandon Newberg, Kimberly Lin
Partying is a way to not only escape society’s norms but to form oneself, and a broader culture, in opposition to it. Five to Nine shows that this otherworldly place is a state of mind that can arise whenever we choose, even at our nine to five.
Digital Fern
Lucas Chung
This project will be a robotic limb actuated with hydraulic cylinders using a neural network to move it towards points of light.
A Fresh View, a look into the Cyprus Problem
Ariana Vassilopoulou
A 360 Video installation that simulates the division of Cyprus, and shows the perspectives of the two communities - The Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
Join
Max Horwich
A voice-controlled web VR experience invites you to sing along with the robotic choir
it will be perfect from now on
Ziyu He
[it will be perfect from now on] is a kinetic sculpture that visually portrays the intricate relations between the individual and the power structure they live under. Individuals, with their identities and characteristics, are the product of that power that is exercised over their bodies, their multiplicities, their movements and desires.
Gold Hunter
Yuhan Zhang
How can I create an AR game that involves 2-3 people of any age, that is fun, beings them joy and surprises?
Programmable Air
Amitabh Shrivastava
A controllable air source that sucks as well as it blows.
Rhythmic skin
Nicolas Peña-Escarpentier
Wearable device for one-person procedural musical performances
Creative Puppeteer
Zohreh Zadbood
Let's Try a Creative Performance with Robots
Ojo Oro – Thesis
Ari Melenciano
In applying emerging technologies to analog inventions, and developing human-centric, visceral business strategies, what are the possibilities for an experimental neo-retro camera company?<br />
Search Divides Us
Anthony Bui, Asha Veeraswamy, Katherine Wu, Keerthana Pareddy
Our project, Search Divides Us, is an exploration of the hidden bias that can exist within search engines.
Philosophycal / Feel-oh-so-fickle
Utsav Chadha
Can we use art and technology to reinterpret the process of reading philosophy, and construct it into a conversational interactive experience?
Bots, Cells and Humans Watching
Sebastian Morales
Bots, Cells and Humans Watching is a speculative ecosystem where inorganic life forms and single-cell organisms come together in symbiosis. Humans are invited along, but only as observers
No One Wanna See U
April Liu, YANG YANG
The moment when you got wiped out from the world.
Tactile Time
Daniella Garcia-Rosales
WE ARE REVEALED IN OUR GESTURES. (Algorithms as metaphors, we are metaphors of time.)
Consciousness Transplant
Hau Yuan
A cinematic virtual reality project aiming to allows users to experience the process of consciousness transplant.
Timeline of the Far Future
Dongphil Yoo, Joohyun Park
What will happen?
Traveling in Style with Google Street View
Jim Schmitz
Neural Style Transfer algorithm applied to Google Street View data to make an animation that looks like you are flying through a painting.
Metron Busker
Wenqi Li
Metron Busker is my strategy for intervening in the urban space as a street performer, using a networked toolkit. Metron Busker is a street performance enabled by tools, and it is also the toolkit that enables the performance.
mltk: machine listening toolkit
Michael Simpson
Sound is a multiplicity of qualities and features. What if a tool allowed us to easily extract and use more of these data points in real-time?<br /> <br /> The <i>Machine Listening Toolkit</i> is a project aimed at easing the use of computational audition for creative purposes.
35 Years of Mass Shootings in the US
Mary Notari
A piece of music is generated using a comprehensive dataset of the past 35 years of mass shootings in the US compiled by Mother Jones as the score in an attempt to answer the question: how can music move us?
Kinegrams
Mithru Vigneshwara
This is a project that helps generate kinegrams, a type of paper/animation illusion.
AirTNT
Yue Fan
This is a travel route optimizer. It will help you plan the most efficient route to visit all the places you selected by using machine learning algorithms.
Digital Rothko
Jason Yung
Colour field painting in the digital age
IMVII
Brandon Kader
I created a system to seamlessly integrate music, visuals, and depth sensory data to perform as a conductor. The performer moves in a space to conduct music samples and generative visuals.
Primate Quest
Elizabeth Ferguson, Haiyi Huang, Vidia Anindhita, Ella Chung
Find out your primate identity by exploring how diet relates to brain size.
Let Me Give Light
Yunho Choi
How can light and emerging technology create a more empathetic society?
MINDFULNESS FOUNTAIN
Sean Kim
Brain Computer Interface (BCI) + Mixed Reality (MR) Headset experience that simulates human delusions, and how meditation can help reveal true reality.
Jamais Vu
Danni Huang
Jamais Vu is a serial virtual reality experience consisting of repetitive loops, inspired some of my own recurring dreams.<br />
Conductive Crystallized Textiles
Sandy Hsieh
Cultivating conductive embellished textiles with electrolysis and exploring its potential for embedded electronic circuitry.
The Nude Museum
Oriana Neidecker
The Nude Museum is a series of curated interactive virtual reality exhibitions that showcase a private collection of nude photography in the desert, on mars, and in a gallery setting.
Runway
Cristobal Valenzuela
Constant increases in computer power and the proliferation and access to large databases have allowed machine learning to rapidly impact our society. While commercial applications can be found everywhere, experimentation of new prototypes and techniques remains - for the most- confined to computer scientists or engineers and has a limited reach to other fields. My thesis will try to explore who can a digital tool simplify the approachability and exploration of machine learning models in other disciplines. I will specifically focus my research on giving better access to state of the art machine intelligence techniques to artists and designers.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Given this framework, I will like to explore questions like:<br /><br /> <br /><br /> - How can modern machine learning models be accessible for people outside of the realm of computer science?<br /><br /> <br /><br /> - Can we have machines and humans collaborate in a generative process using tools that simplify how the two work together?
Revenge of Left Shark
Caleb Ferguson, Gabriel Goncalves
Play DDR with your hands! Many years after messing up at the Super Bowl XLIX, LEFT SHARK is ready to teach you his moves.