ITP / IMA Spring Show 2019



Bloom
Joseph Baker
Multi-direction kinetic chandler that changes light pattern based on the ambient light
Future Dining
Kexin Lin
Future Dining is an AR project represents the future dining after all foods went extinct.
The Distance Outside
Shu-Ju Lin
An installation that represents us as the indoor generation.
The two Flagpole protocols
Dana Elkis, Idith Barak
Two flagpoles with sheer flags dancing between the accepted flag protocols; half-staff, full staff.
The Choice
Son Luu
THE CHOICE - How much privacy are you willing to give up for the convenience of interconnected media?
Crater Creater
Chenyu Sun, Carol Chen, Kexin Lin
Crater Creator is an interactive game designed for the American Museum of Natural History's Space Fest to educate people about moon craters in a fun way.
LIQUID Router
Nicholas Gregg, Sukanya Aneja
The Liquid Router makes you aware of the data you are leaking (and the multi-billion dollar industry based around these third-party trackers) during your internet browsing experience.
Neural Painting (Creating art using machine learning)
Zahra Khosravi
I train models on Persian patterns, paintings, motives, texts using machine learning style transfer. I used the models to transfer Persian Art style to world modern artworks.
bioplastic
Olivia Kung
An exploration of bioplastics and an unconventional application.
I See You
Mark Lam, Tushar Goyal
'I See You' is a surveillance project that brings to light privacy vulnerabilities in wifi networks and what they can expose about people and their location data.
Purr
Fenfen CHEN, Xiaotong Ma
“Purr ”is an emotional healing app for overseas students.
p5.js Shaders
Casey Conchinha, Louise Lessel
A resource for learning the what, why, and how of using shaders in p5.js.
Metamorphosis
Anna Gudnason, Morgan Mueller
A live coding performance piece using Max msp/jitter that manipulates and distorts faces with visual and auditory narratives.
Color Crazy
Cameron Partee
iOS augmented reality application aimed at familiarizing people with AR also while having fun.
Multi-modal Thumb Piano
Adekemi Sijuwade
A browser-based thumb piano that can be played with facial gesture, the mouse, as well as with a touchscreen device.
Teachable Snake
Ming Pu Shao
Machine learning snake game controlled by gesture.
In Memoriam
Ellen Nickles, Carrie Wang
A shared VR experience for two participants to explore and imagine a future world together.
Pleasure Principal
Arnab Chakravarty, Gabriella Garcia
A vibrator that rewards you for creativity, battery charged by making art.
Royal Escape
Mai Arakida Izsak
Step into a boat to discover a virtual oasis in the middle of the ocean.
Solus
Vidia Anindhita
Solus is a series of smart devices that highlights our sense of smell so that people who feel alone can find a state of solitude and joy. How can we transform the experience of this feeling of loneliness into solitude, a state of being alone without being lonely, by exploring our senses and mental states?
Meditation Tunnel
Alizarin Waissberg
a hectic, invigorating, violently positive and painfully honest self-improvement VR rabbit-hole<br />
The Nature of Internet
Stefan Skripak
"The Nature of Internet" is a critical object which highlights the self-destructive environmental consequences of internet usage.
Hear The Line
Chenyu Sun, Chenhe Zhang, Qice Sun
Hear The Line - Augmented Reality Collective Story-Telling Experience​​​​​​​<br />
Shadow Through Time
Nuntinee Tan
A study on shadows through time in the format of a 24-hour light fixture
Pain Killer
Fenfen CHEN, Yuanyuan Wang
This is a garment that relieves the symptoms associated with menstrual cramps in women.
Future’s Market
Alden Jones
Future’s Market is a store of tomorrow: a predicted intervention into predictive systems, a performance of ubiquitous surveillance infrastructure, or a look at a world where walls and wires and bank accounts heave and palpitate with a million unhidden eyes.
WaveStitcher:E-textile
Becca Moore
Wave Stitcher is an e-textile exploration using conductive yarn and LEDs to recreate the feeling of a visit to the cliffs of Big Sur, California.
Eniac Girlz
Jacquelyn Liu
ENIAC Girlz: Program & Pretend is a speculative girl's play set to spark dialog about the historical inequities for women in computing, from the era of the first electronic computer through this day.
The Modern World, Painted
Jim Schmitz
Using a style transfer algorithm and 360 imagery from Google Street View, I can create beautiful immersive experiences.
I'm Touched
Idith Barak, Noah Pivnick
A dress that reveals the wearers emotions when being paid attention by emitting a varying ringing sound.
YG and Jasper's light Store
Rui Wang, Yuguang Zhang
A lot of light design products and installations
Let’s Read A Story
Itay Niv
My thesis project, Let’s Read A Story, is a speculative exploration on how computers and technology can turn story time into a conversation between parents, children and a computer. Human gestures -- speaking, drawing, typing – allows the reader to participate in a new form of conversation on a smart device (tablet or a smart speaker) that yields a surprising new story.
Pulse Resonance
Jordan Rickman
An audio installation that allows you to feel another person's heartbeat not with your ears, but through your body.
Feedback Mirror
Bora Aydintug
Look at your self and your surrounding in an alternative way
High School Party Simulator for Home Schooled Boys
Lisha Payne
A VR high school party simulator for home school boys (360-degree video) with themed booth installation.
Slow numbers
Nicolas Sanin
An automatic "artist machine" that rolls dice and creates a digital painting that visualizes the results of the continuous dice rolling.
reFrame 1.0
M.H. Rahmani
a large transparent HUD AR display with head tracking for data overlay.
I Can't Breathe
Ashley Lewis
"I Can't Breathe" is a soft robotics data visualization of the black deaths at the hand of police brutality in North America over the last 10 years.
LIME: Light Interface for Musical Expression
Jesse Simpson
LIME is a patchable device that provides the user with a platform for using light as a control medium for musical expression. Through a combination of lighting, sensors, fiber optic patch cables, and processing units, the system allows the user to design cable flows which generate and modulate light patterns before translating the patterned light into musical events interpreted by computer-based virtual instruments and effects.
Call Alexander
Rashida Kamal
A rotary phone that allows you to find documents related to Alexander Graham Bell, its inventor, on the Library of Congress website.
Winding time
Chengchao Zhu
Winding Time is an experimental installation that conveys the idea of how people’s relative speed affects their personal timeline and how people’s movement influence their time spread in a particular space.
Kawari
Helen Tang
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Sonic Cubes
Ada Jiang
A random music generation system that involves motion and spatial arrangement of 6 cubes
Invisible Labor
Isabella Vento, Sukanya Aneja
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sunadd
Aileen Stanziola, Luming Hao
sunadd is an exploration of energy, voltage, difference, abstraction, materiality, information, digitality, and computation in the form of a 1 bit adder of solar information.
Samara
Haozhong Yao
Immersive experience of a soul wandering through different worlds of his incarnation.
Monkey Face-Time
Noah Pivnick
Monkey Face-Time is a three player cooperative card game about monkeys living together, looking at each other, and how that changes their appearance over the course of time.
100 Days of Spaceships
James Hosken
Every day for 100 days I made, then animated, a 3D spaceship. This project is the result.
Introduction to Surveillance Technology & How to Avoid It
Anna Gudnason, Jiwon Shin
A easy to read zine that covers surveillance technologies for the general audience.
SLIME MUSIC
Sachiko Nakajima
This project is full of magical funny music, created by touching the slime!
Palette
Nianqi Zhang, Xiaotong Ma
An audio+visual installation that provides a space for sharing and appreciate different languages
Qiuniu, Pulao and Diting
Lyujiang Chen
It is a delicate installation allowing multiple interesting gestures to trigger music pieces.
Perspectives in the National Parks
Jaekook Han
Explore the happenings in the National Parks and discover the gap between the google maps
Undercover
Marco Wylie
Undercover is an autobiographical performance that weaves vignettes of memory, music and pop culture imagery into a narrative that explores misogyny, gender, and identity from the perspective of a transman.
“Widow”
Alexandra Lopez-Duarte
Widowhood is an invisible state in today’s society.
Daily Dividuals
Tong Wu
This is a series of avatar-based, Augmented Reality body sculptures of surreal scenes from everyday life in an imaginary future where the roles of human and machine are reversed. Combining social commentary and satire, this project reflects alienation of and between individuals and their surrounding environments due to increasing complexity and capability of technology in the age of algorithm.
sonAR
Guillermo Montecinos
sonAR is an augmented reality sound experience that allows the user to explore music elements in the space.
The Self-Driving Human
Dan Oved
The self-driving human is a device and performance where an intelligent portable agent makes decisions for a person in the real world.
The Ghost
April Liu
An interactive video installation using holograms to create a space where the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds meet, overlap and bleed together.
Life expectancy calculator
Karina Hyland Hernandez
Self-tracking is not done for nothing; it’s to live better. And honestly, longer.
Mass Extinction
Dylan Dawkins, Emily Lin, Mingna Li, Maya Pruitt
an interactive Geological rock wall
Haptic Watch
Antonio Guimaraes
Tell time through your sense of touch by feeling the vibration patterns of a haptic motor.
OCR 01-15-2179
Winnie Yoe
An interactive installation created to materialize a line/a boundary
Blind Date
Xiran Yang
My thesis project “Blind Date” is an interactive story with game elements in the format of a phone-based website. It features a 28-year-old single Chinese woman’s struggles with enormous pressure to get married early. It is a reflection and critique of the conventions surrounding marriage in contemporary Chinese society.
The Compliment Project
Mingna Li
The Compliment Project is a web app that allows ITP students to compliment each other as a community, in order to relieve stress and give moral support in making creative projects.
A corpus of Friends
Suzanne Li
A text generator using a corpus from Friends to generate new narratives.
The Tuning House
Camilla Padgitt-Coles
"The Tuning House" is a voice-activated light and sound installation where you use your voice to choose a color and sound palette. The frequency of the participant’s voice is translated into a synthesized pitch and color, creating a personalized expression of chromo-synesthesia. Isolating color and sound pairings in this way highlights a simplified and subjective relationship between frequencies which are present all around us.
Paralang
Michael Blum
Through an educational learning hub and an interactive playground, both hosted on the same web app, Paralang aims to cultivate literacy, inspire curiosity, and arouse concern with respect to emerging neural language models.
Cats
Yuguang Zhang
"Cats" is a generative arts piece that explores the relationship between AI synthesized digital contents and human beings.
Human Body as a Machine
Julia Rich
A disembodied heart that beats for you
Claw Machine
Ruyi Chen, Ruojin Shi
What does it feel like to be a toy inside the claw machine?
Conveyor
Hannah Tardie
This work is a networked pulley system about infrastructure, time, and what it means to take up space.
iBrush
Ching-Hsi Chou
ar drawing in iphone
Refracting Rays
Aidan Nelson
This installation uses custom lenses and digital rendering software to allow audience members to engage with optics and the phenomenon of refraction.
After Life
Chenshan Gao, Rui An
A VR experience about after life
White Mountain, Black Water
Chenhe Zhang, Yves Pokakunkanon
An installation that explores the characteristics of water and utilizes them to create interactive music experiences.
Facebox
Hayk Mikayelyan, Tanic Nakpresha
When a service is free, you are not the customer. You are the product!
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.
The Melody Box
Chunhan Chen, Tianyi Xie, Helen Tang
A Music box that allows people to play with melody, rhythm, and pitch
Magical Pencil
YANG YANG
Magical Pencil is a video game telling a story about a journey of a deserter who has a magical pencil by which whatever is drawn becomes real. In the game, players can create whatever they want by hand drawing to help the character to return to his home. The game can recognize what the player is drawing, and spawn a corresponding item in the game world, with an appearance of the player's doodle, to interact with the player.
A Measure of Care
Elizabeth Ferguson
A Measure of Care is an interactive look at representation and value of people in archives.
The Waiting Room
Lydia Jessup
A rare VR artifact dated around 2025 from one of the underground virtual “waiting speakeasies” that popped up when waiting was eliminated for society’s elites.
A Hailu Mergia Fan & His Super-Modern Instrument
Billy Bennett
A wand to control music! There are no wrong notes...
Corpus Phallosum
August Luhrs
Corpus Phallosum is an interactive installation where 144 transparent dildos lit from within by LEDs act as switches that trigger different animations, sounds, and other functions. The default mode is as a MIDI piano with rippling animations, but to see what mode it's currently in, press one and find out!
PlayCook
Anna Oh
Video player App controlled by Apron (wearable tech design + mobile App)
Audance
Louise Lessel, Matthew Ross, Max Horwich
A networked interactive music experience
Mirror
Aditya Dahiya, Brent Bailey
An AI mirror trained only to "see" its creators.
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.
Pillow Talk
Matthew Ross
Experimental Pillow Based Voice Sampler And Instrument
Our Modern Love Story
Yves Pokakunkanon
A collection of computer generated poetry that analyzes the relationship between two people with an attempt to find the underlying meanings of thoughts and feelings they exchanged over conversations, text messages, e-mails, and letters.
Conjunctio
Jason Yung
Medium for creating light art using light and shadow
Lumi Algae
Nianqi Zhang
A lamp that turns the real-time movement of algae under a microscope into the movement of light
Who is RIGHT?
Zohreh Zadbood
I have designed an experiment that aims at helping individuals to better think about other people's feeling and thoughts using interactive 360 videos. In fact, I want to help audience thinks about answering the question
ITP Photo Booth
Rebecca Skurnik
An ITP Photo booth for the Spring Show
Wander Compass
David Azar
Wander Compass is a wearable that takes you to streets where you've never been before.
Forcetopia
Effy Fan
A kinetic data sculpture that shows the world relationship between each countries based on data of human labor and artificial intelligence.
Stonewall50: A Historical Look at the Washington Square Park Arch
Ryan Grippi
The Washington Square Park Arch was originally built to commemorate this country's founding fathers on the Centennial Anniversary of Washington's Inauguration. What better way to commemorate the founding mothers and fathers of the LGBT Civil Rights movement than to redecorate the arch for their own half-centennial anniversary.
Designing Tactile Schematics
Lauren Race
To make electronics more accessible to blind and low vision learners, a set of design standards and best practices were developed for converting schematics into tactile schematics.
The Drawing Booth
Haiyi Huang
How can drawing help us “see” ourselves better and empower us through self-discovery? A interactive drawing booth that allows people to “capture” themselves through their drawing process.
You Are Not Broken
Raaziq Brown
You Are Not Broken is a virtual environment and physical display showcasing select pieces of digital artwork and paintings that I made during my 100 Days of Broken Fluidity.
Now You Are In the Conversation
Chelsea Chen
A sculpture that was interrupted when you try to take a photo of it.
Fu Ping
Haiyi Huang, Woan-Chin LIN
A video installation that portrays the absence of the sense of belonging.
Lurida
Kat Vlasova
A retrowave neogoth Virtual Reality experience that takes the user on a dystopian journey of becoming a successful artist in the social media age.
The sun lamp
Arnab Chakravarty
A desk lamp that shines like the sun for you.
Grandma's Garden
Shiyu Chen
A fun and playful VR interactive experience that makes you feel hospitable and homy while experience my childhood memory in a faraway island.
CRISPR Detective
Adrian Bautista, Antonio Guimaraes, Caroline Neel, Jingyi Wen, Veronica Alfaro
An interactive exhibit to educate visitors on CRISPR's abilities--and risks.
A Vociferous Silence
Jiyao Zhang
“A Vociferous Silence” is a series of reactive masks that attempt to address the complexity of one’s self-concept and self-appraisal by presenting multiple aspects of inner voices.
Breath We Live
Ella Chung
Breathe We Live is an interactive meditation experience that awakens the reflection of the human relationship with nature through breathing.
Box of Fear
Kexin Lin, Marco Wylie, Rachel Lim, Tianyi Xie, Zhe Wang
A box that educates fear is NOT where you think it is.
Sound Playground
Katya Rozanova
An ecosystem of semi-autonomous physical objects that emit sound when they want to but that you can also collaborate with by setting them into motion.
Pre-mom Screening
Shu-Ju Lin, Wenjing Liu
A critical device that tells a user whether or not they should have a baby base on their DNA data.
Darkness
Manu Jain, Tanic Nakpresha
A Virtual Reality Experience where you have no sight, and have to find your way through space using just sound.
Complication of the Computer Mouse
Emma Norton
Complication of the Computer Mouse is a lecture that unpacks the shifts in computation and how gender is enacted through computation by exploring the history of the computer mouse as an object.