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Archive for May, 2008


Soyoung Park

\'Waves of Leaves\' is an interactive, kinetic ceramic sculpture that is made of clay.

\'Waves of Leaves\' is an interactive, reactive, kinetic ceramic sculpture that is made of clay. By detecting the proximity of the viewer, and by implication the viewer’s gaze, the sculpture reacts by showing gentle movements. The piece is intended to address the concerns of beauty in natural forms and...CONTINUE READING »
Friday, May 9th, 2008
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Adam Parrish

Why just type? New Interfaces for Textual Expression are a suite of devices that mediate the connection between the writer and the writing, suggesting new syntaxes for composing, reading, and performing text.

New Interfaces for Textual Expression is a series of devices intended to create and manipulate text. Analogous to contemporary interfaces for music and image manipulation, New Interfaces for Textual Expression are intuitive but not literal: they map gestures not to characters (as with conventional writing devices, such as the...CONTINUE READING »
Friday, May 9th, 2008
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Ana Maria Gutierrez

\"The mythical ideal of the Imaginary—as a primordial state of wholeness before the mind/body split which forms each of us an individual subject—is conceptualized as the experience in the womb when our mother’s body was co-extensive with our own.\"

“Inside” is an Interactive video Sculpture Installation that explores the body and mind in the ephemeral moment of creation. This Installation uses a few elements of the body as a site to bring forth the subconscious process of being brought back to...CONTINUE READING »
Friday, May 9th, 2008
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Lucas Longo

An iPhone application that delivers how-to, need-to, just-in-time, life long learning anywhere, anytime.

Pocket Learning is an experiment on mobile education. It is an application for the iPhone with example lessons on taking better pictures with the iPhone.
The lessons use short procedural instructions, self-paced lessons, interactive examples and participatory exercises to demonstrate the potential of the platform. Users interested in the...CONTINUE READING »

Vaibhav Bhawsar

TerraLine is a compass like instrument that reveals distant events occurring on Earth.

The TerraLine re-appropriates the magnetic compass to show directions that are not cardinal but indicators of economic states. It is an instrument that helps one navigate Earth using such directions.Navigating or orienting ourselves in such ways could offer opportunities of envisioning and exploring our world from different perspectives. ...CONTINUE READING »

Yan Yan Cao

REFELCTION is a video installation that visually compares Manhattan to Shanghai and creates the illusion of being in both cities at once in the moment.

REFLECTION is a video installation which represent a feeling of dislocation, disorientation felt by people who share the experience of continously travelling, relocating from place to place for professional or personal reasons, so called modern day nomades.
It uses projected imagery to compose a narrative of visually comparing two...CONTINUE READING »
Friday, May 9th, 2008
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Soyoung Park

\’Waves of Leaves\’ is an interactive, reactive, kinetic ceramic sculpture that is made of clay. By detecting the proximity of the viewer, and by implication the viewer’s gaze, the sculpture reacts by showing gentle movements. The piece is intended to address the concerns of beauty in natural forms and materials, and a controlled form of minimal interaction in technologically augmented art.

Friday, May 9th, 2008
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Rory Nugent

An exploration into designing a set of autonomous robots that express a sense of life.

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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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Younji Choi

The CUBE is an art installation to create introspective experience by recording voice and image.

The beauty of communication is listening. What makes a conversation successful is how good at listening we are. The meaning of listening is to convey message that the listener is accepting a speaker\'s feelings as it is, without judgement. Relationship gets yield in the very process of ‘Listening’, because the...CONTINUE READING »

Chris Jennings

Synapse is an online personal database for constructing knowledge that allows users to associate independent ideas with relevant web content and dialogue meaningful observations with others.

Imagine that all of the knowledge and written work you had accomplished in school related to information from your personal and professional life in a customized database for on-demand retrieval. Synapse is an online personal database for users to construct knowledge by associating new ideas with relevant information captured online,...CONTINUE READING »
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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