Posted on

Life in a Nutshell

yiyao nie

This project has two parts. The first part is a series of sculptures. The second part invites visitors to become part of the chinese characters to experience 12 stages of life.

https://www.yiyaonie.space/lifeinanutshell

Description

Chinese characters (language system) evolved in sync with Chinese people’s character and culture. This installation invites viewers to interact and understand the root of the written characters and an introduction to Chinese philosophy which is the foundation of the Chinese character. Also, there are 13 sculptures coming with this installation.

Classes

Video Sculpture

Posted on

Mirror

Aditya Dahiya, Brent Bailey

An AI mirror trained only to “see” its creators.

https://

Description

Using computer vision, we've created a mirror that can only see the people who made it.

Classes

Critical Objects, Electronic Rituals, Oracles and Fortune-Telling

Posted on

Hear The Line

Chenyu Sun, Chenhe Zhang, Qice Sun

Hear The Line – Augmented Reality Collective Story-Telling Experience​​​​​​​

https://www.chenyusun.com/hear-the-line

Description

It sounds like audio social media posts placed in a mirror world (augmented reality), it is also a new way of storytelling. It could be considered as a site specific experience, only in certain place and by certain moves could you perceive the few minutes experience created by the previous users, people can feel how the “sound” creator was going through in that minute at that specific place by moving the way he/she moved.

Classes

Mobile Lab, Mobile Lab, Video Sculpture

Posted on

Palette

Nianqi Zhang, Xiaotong Ma

An audio+visual installation that provides a space for sharing and appreciate different languages

https://

Description

Palette is a digital installation that provides a space for people to share and appreciate different languages. Users will speak to the microphone, watching the projection and hearing the music generated by their and others’ words.

Classes

Music Interaction Design

Posted on

Superfície

Marcela Mancino von der Osten

Superfície is a live performance that discusses identity and memory through the materiality of a simultaneously physical and digital living human body.

https://mardefronteira.wordpress.com/category/music-interaction-design/

Description

CONCEPT: Superfície is a live performance that discusses identity and memory through the materiality of a simultaneously physical and digital living human body. Audiovisual textures that compose the performer's existence in space and time are triggered by her movements, leading the audience into an experience of scanning through her skin. This work dialogues with the idea of a body that is somewhere between stage and the digital world, co-existing in these two spaces.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Superfície uses Kinect to gather data from the performer's movements, transforming them into sound, video and light. The sound is a movement translation, having a set of rules that trigger different instruments and effects (i.e. the distance between the left foot and the right hand dictate the reverb of a specific synthesizer). The main video output is an on-skin projector showing textures from the performer's body and memories, as well as manipulations of the image being gathered by the IR camera. All elements are being triggered and manipulated in the same way that the sound is.

Note: I am signing up for performing live. Also available for participating in production the event.
In case the live performance ends up not happening, I would like to somehow present documentation of this process, since ITP haven't given me the chance to perform it.

Classes

Music Interaction Design

Posted on

A Measure of Care

Elizabeth Ferguson

A Measure of Care is an interactive look at representation and value of people in archives.

https://www.elizabethjeaneferguson.com/ameasureofcare

Description

A Measure of Care invites you to look for remarkable people in the Library of Congress' collections who did not receive obituaries in The New York Times until the launch of their Overlooked feature in 2018. The project also offers tools for people to add more representation of these people into archives, and others who are overlooked, into the Library of Congress' homepage with a chrome extension and the ability to contribute to the dataset behind the project.

Classes

Artists in the Archive

Posted on

Cats

Yuguang Zhang

“Cats” is a generative arts piece that explores the relationship between AI synthesized digital contents and human beings.

https://www.ygzhang.com/cats.html

Description

This piece is inspired by R. Luke Dubois's Pop Icon: Bowie piece, and the recent advancement in high-resolution AI image synthesis. While AI is now capable of producing images that look exactly like photos taken using a camera, it does not rely on any physicality of the subject of those imageries. In this case, what's the point of doing so? And what does it imply? In search of answers to this question, I found that it could be used as a platform to explore our “hive mind” perception of concepts, ideas, and bias, and to present them in realistically convincing or utterly surreal ways.

In this piece, I chose the combination of human portrait arts and real-life cat photos – two categories that wouldn't normally come across each other – as my subject of synthesis. 5000+ images of human portraits were trained on StyleGAN, with an additional layer of 1000+ cat faces. The results were then used to synthesize semi-human, semi-cat portraits and generate a piece of “cat” music modeled after Beethoven's Sonata No. 8.

This piece was performed at the Cycling '74 Expo on April, 2019, and its part of the my Hivemind series.

Classes

Autonomous Artificial Artists, Machine Learning for the Web

Posted on

Conveyor

Hannah Tardie

This work is a networked pulley system about infrastructure, time, and what it means to take up space.

http://www.hannahtardie.com/conveyor

Description

This work is a networked pulley system about infrastructure and what it means to take up space. It uses custom hardware and is programmed according to the amount of time it will be installed. During its installation, it will complete 2 laps or cycles per day. Some laps will be done at a high speed in a matter of minutes, while others may take hours. This project was created based on an interest in erratic and uncontrollable temporalities. While the material of the project remains the same throughout its duration, its movement through space at specific times qualifies the material. In the same way, this project adds a temporality and infrastructure to the space it inhabits, creating a relationship to its position in space with ways of keeping time. While it can be thought of as a physical network, transmitting information from room to room, it can also be considered a meditation on what it means to occupy space. In one way, the piece takes up more space than any other project in the show, inhabiting multiple rooms. In another way, it takes up the least amount of space as it does not touch the floor, and is out of typical human field of view. Viewers must look up at the ceiling in order to perceive the work.

Classes

Homemade Hardware, Project Development Studio

Posted on

In Memoriam

Ellen Nickles, Carrie Wang

A shared VR experience for two participants to explore and imagine a future world together.

https://github.com/ITP-xStory/in-memoriam-world

Description

In Memoriam, by Carrie Sijia Wang and Ellen Nickles, is an open-ended, multi-user virtual reality experience that presents a future in which nature is preserved in synthetic monuments. Two participants enter a surreal world of tree-like structures, open water, and sounds from the past. Entering at two different locations in the landscape, guests are tasked to observe and describe to each other what they see and hear while exploring the artificial forest.

Classes

Desert of the Real: Deep Dive into Social VR

Posted on

PlayCook

Anna Oh

Video player App controlled by Apron (wearable tech design + mobile App)

https://

Description

When you cooking, it's bothering to touch the screen to watch recipe videos or fun videos with your greasy hands. This apron allows you to control the videos with simple tapping. Furthermore, the zipper on the apron can scrub the video and volume controls.

Classes