Donna Cameron

Using free Google Web tools, "Your Web, Your World" is an ITP thesis project that promotes a virtual vacation club, "Club Dream Vacation". Club Dream vacation is a geography and social science educational tool for all classroom groups, including Special Education, K-5.

YOUR WEB☺YOUR WORLD
CLUB DREAM VACATION

By Donna Cameron, 2009 ITP Thesis Candidate in computer and web technology, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Abstract: The virtual vacation club, \"Club Dream Vacation\", is an education project which supports using Google Maps, Google Earth and...CONTINUE READING »

Yingxian Wu

Installation; A playable, kinetic, futuristic architecture model which can be used to browse augmented reality images projected on a screen.

This thesis focuses on creating a new fun device with which people can browse images and play videos in a public space. The device is designed as a scale model of a floating building that has three different black and white pattern markers on the windows. Users can...CONTINUE READING »

Alex Abreu, Tim Szetela

WikiPaths is a hyperlink scavenger hunt played on top of Wikipedia.

WikiPaths is a hyperlink scavenger hunt game played on Wikipedia.org in which players try to find the shortest path between two, seemingly unconnected, encyclopedic entries. WikiPaths is not a separate website, but rather a casual game superimposed on Wikipedia itself. The game is written in JavaScript and runs as a...CONTINUE READING »

Klara Palotai

The daydream, nightmare and psychoanalysis of a building. The stage of the Exploded Archives installation is a debate, an argument between the real and the perceived with the capacity of its constituent parts to simultaneously occupy the same physical location in which the layering of the space results in continuous fluctuation of interpretations.

Exploded Archives is a site-specific installation based on archival material of a historical building, presented with the organizing principal of anarchic freedom. Based on the concept of emptiness, the sound, text and visual fragments are reorganized for an immersive viewing experience.

A historical building becomes a magnifying glass:...CONTINUE READING »

Zannah Marsh

The Give-N-Get Economy Outlet is an experiment in creating a transactional mini-economy based on the exchange of items of minimal or no monetary value, but significant personal meaning or narrative value.

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Timothy Twillman

Cuttlefish are small devices designed to make performance and installation lighting simple.

In the current incarnation, Cuttlefish are small LED lighting controllers that use modular lighting strips. Using software running on a PC or laptop as a gateway they are able to be controlled by programming languages such as Max/MSP, Pure Data, Supercollider, and C++ (using openFrameworks). Each connected LED...CONTINUE READING »

Eduardo Lytton

An interactive Latin American shrine depicts the beatific highs and the exponentially nightmarish shades of losing touch with reality.
Music by: Angélica Negron

The Altar to Our Lady of the Shining Silver Sun is a shrine in the Latin American tradition dedicated to presenting the beatific highs and the exponentially nightmarish shades of losing touch with reality. It holds testimonials of strange and powerful visions in the form of retablos, colorful votives often...CONTINUE READING »

Xue Hou

"February" is a narrative animated short film that explores fear and dependency in relationships, as well as the unbearable fatigue of a doubtful future and insecurity.

This thesis project is a narrative animated short film entitled \"February\", inspired by a girl who was born in February. ...CONTINUE READING »

Cynthia Hilmoe

Pockets-Full-of-Wonder gets today's child outside to play in nature! Nuanced technology adds a touch of magic to meet these Digital Natives where they are.

Pockets-Full-of-Wonder gets today\'s child, the Digital Native, playing outdoors! Seeing possibilities for play, children fill their pockets with gadgets that help make nature comes alive. Instinctively, the kids gather materials -- a manipulated photograph, a pressed leaf, water quality data from a stream --- that can be used in...CONTINUE READING »

Peng Zhao

It is Videaful’s hope to make the “worth spreading” videos get across language barriers to reach and benefit a much larger audience. It attempts to achieve this goal by providing an easy-to-use web based video translation tool and facilitating to build a community around those great video content where anyone can watch, discuss and help translate videos.

The word “videa” is a combine of two words – “video” and “idea”. “Videa” refers to the video of great ideas - ideas that are creative, inspiring, profound and knowledgeable. Generally, videos of conference speaks focusing on innovation and creativity would fall into this category.
It is Videaful’s hope...CONTINUE READING »