The slow media is disappearing as everything becomes faster and things are disappearing in virtual world without a trace.
What about the memories?
What about relationships in virtual world?
“I want to collect the sweet memory and the relationship that gives me comfort and makes me happy.”
Shinyoung imagined the old box in the garage full of letters, postcards, and photos of memory.

Shinyoung is developing a customizable product-service system called Funji through which people can share emotions with each other.

Funji devices and the facebook application not only deliver a voice message from individuals, but also provide a representation of their identity or the relationship through customized colors and designs.

Funji device also randomly vibrates, yawns, snores or plays unique sounds to give a user a sense of companionship. It is also small enough to fit into the palm of a hand so that people can easily hold and touch it and carry it around wherever they go.
Funji hopes to be a new medium that can capture a certain memory of a certain relationship in the digital world so that you can keep them forever. You can also use it as a secret note that you pass in classes or secret code that you use with your special friends.

Users subscribe to penultimate via sms and receive the last line written in the collective story, they can then sms their contribution to complete the next part of the story.

StatueMod.org is a comprehensive site that aims to give the Institute for Statue Modification a home on the Internet. Through the website the Institute can better provide resources to citizens across the country interested in statue modification as a revolutionary practice. What’s more, the website serves as a place for participation. In addition to learning about statue modifications in recent history, people can search and contribute to an open catalogue of statues across the United States today in need of modification, and imagine new possible statues for tomorrow.

The Institute for Statue Modification is dedicated to statue modification and its applications for revolutionary change. The Institute aims to investigate where popular opinion and the decorative elements of the urban landscape diverge. At the foundation of this investigation are several key questions: Whom do we choose to monumentalize and why? How do we recontextualize statues, monuments, and other fixtures in urban space when cultural attitudes toward history change? How can we collaboratively enact this process of recontextualization? How does shifting the balance of power in statue and monument representation translate to a political shift in power?

StatueMod.org was created to help the Institute for Statue Modification achieve its mission. The website is divided into three sections. The first is a research center where people can read and submit articles and papers about statue modification. The research center also serves as a news source for statue modification related current events. The second is a citizen-contributed open catalogue called the StatueWiki, where people can add or edit entries of statues in need of modification. The third is the StatueLabs, a place to explore ideas for modified or new statues.

Open Source Visualization Framework provides visualization artists a website, OpenVisuals.org, in which they can find interesting data sets to visualize, a visualization API to import the data shared on the website and to create a visualization on top of it. It also gathers these open source visualizations and data sets under one hood, making it possible to map them to each other on the fly, and enables the community to share, communicate, and collaborate on data visualization.

Imagine giving a lecture on a classic film and commenting on the director\’s use of space. Now imagine you could actually draw lines on the screen, demonstrating what you mean. Maybe you\’re watching sports and want to break down a play like the announcers do. Or maybe you\’re just watching the State of the Union and you want to draw a funny mustache on George Bush\’s face.

WiiDraw is a tool that will allow you to do any of these things. Whether being used as a teaching instrument or just for amusing yourself and your friends, Wiidraw provides a simple interface for doodling on top of live images on normal TV screen.

Using a Nintendo WiiMote, a micro controller, and an ir led, these devices create a network that intercepts a standard video signal and overlays it with the user\’s drawings.

Whereas every existing sequencer and drum machine before the CrudBox created sound electronically, using either 1) analog synthesis, in which sound is created by manipulating voltage in real time, or 2) prerecorded or preprogrammed digital sound, the CrudBox creates sound by recording, looping, and editing the actions of motors, solenoids, and virtually any other physical, mechanical object and then amplifying their sounds in real time. There is absolutely no recording of audio in the CrudBox. All the sounds are created acoustically in real time.

Steppers were designed to get kids up on their feet, moving, and playing with sound and music. An external sensor sandal is worn over a child\’s shoes, noting each footstep, and, in real time, playing back sound effects/music to compliment their movements. Force sensing resistors housed in each sandal wirelessly transmit information back to a computer, which then broadcasts sounds over an FM radio chip that accompany each footstep. Users hear the sounds that they create over an ordinary radio, or through FM headphones.

Koranic Fatigue is a one-man show depicting various people connected to the Islamic diaspora. The purpose of the piece is to show that there is no such thing as pan-Islamism by neither defending or offending the religion. The focus of the project is to engage in every aspect of creating a subtle yet thought-provoking experience for the audience. Each character is fleshed out using various types of media. Careful consideration is given to symbols and words that have been Fatigued or weakened over time due to overexertion. The particular time in the world and history is the basis of inspiration for the creators of Koranic Fatigue- who are also a part of the Islamic diaspora- therefore having an insider\’s view while keeping an open perspective.

Koranic Fatigue is a piece of theatre composed of monologues of several different characters. Each character is enriched with sound, video projection, set artifacts, color, and costume. The dramatic text was developed through imagining the various communities of Islam all over the world. The stories are bookended and intersected with an honest voice from the actor\’s true life as a South Asian man who grew up with a Muslim identity in a diverse Bronx neighborhood.

Everyone has the desire and the right to express themselves. People can draw pictures, play music, sing songs, move their bodies, write compositions or poems to express their feelings and emotions. However, not everyone can use these methods. There are many people who want to express themselves but cannot to do so because of physical disabilities. In this project, assistive technology including electronics, mechanics, and computer programming is applied to help those people to express themselves, and moreover, to provide an opportunity to be an artist.

\”You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.\”
William Faulkner

Personal and collective memory is in constant flux. Is it ever worthwhile to make any attempt to memorialize it? I wish to speak to the transitory nature of human existence and the material world by providing an avenue for a personal, impressionistic path through layers of time.