Archive for May, 2011
An interactive documentary film project and a robotic video sculpture on sex trafficking and domestic violence in New York.
“Regarding the pain of others” features stories of 3 sex trafficking survivors in New York State. Symbolically, it represents a miniature shelter.
Physically, this shelter is a robotic video sculpture driven by motors and spur gears, and incorporating motion sensors, a video projection and four speakers. While the video plays... CONTINUE READING »
“Q” – a wisecracking pirate monster – is an Android-enabled, voice-activated plush toy that allows children access to stories, games and a world of information from the Internet.
“Q” is a dynamic companion toy that has the ability to share in a child’s interests and adventures. Through spoken language, Q can assist with homework, tell stories, relay messages, and play games. Underneath Q’s huggable exterior is an Android-enabled device that performs voice recognition, text to speech, and retrieves... CONTINUE READING »
Visual Logic is a one-bit computer: an absurdist testament to our social organization & industrial scale, and a study of the aesthetic potential of the modular components that make up the complex digital devices all around us.
The rapid miniaturization of control and communication systems has been critical to the scientific and economic development of the past half-century, but in its reduction of the physical to practical invisibility, it is also an apparent act of magic. Because of this illusion, it is difficult to sensibly comprehend not... CONTINUE READING »
DoggyCorps is a collective storytelling project that uses the animal to transcend geographic borders and political persuasions, mapping community through the voices of city dogs.
If city dogs could speak, what would they say? Rogan, who lives in Brooklyn, recently shared the barriers to becoming a male model in the Big Apple, while Max, fresh off the boat from Staten Island, explained current treatments for his urinary tract infection.
DoggyCorps is a... CONTINUE READING »
Using sustainable energy to harm the environment.
Using sustainable energy to harm the environment. ... CONTINUE READING »
A pan-disciplinary moderated conversational space that combines salon, epistolary, and essay formats online.
Kernel is a moderated monthly online forum of invited guests that takes place for a limited duration. The archive of that conversation then becomes the basis for a paper. Its intention is to seed intellectual and innovative engagement and writing through conversation and community. A selected group... CONTINUE READING »
Designed Morphologies is an emerging field of fabrication research based in concepts of bio-mimesis, sustainability and design.
Nature organizes matter into unique formations to maximize strength where it is needed and allow for material conservation where it is not. Designed Morphologies takes inspiration from these natural structures and applies it to the development of new materials, techniques and forms. Computer-aided design has become highly dynamic, allowing for... CONTINUE READING »
Signal in Noise is a installation that layers elements of video and sound to dissect how our protective instincts attempt to preserve intimacy within over-saturated environments.
Signal in Noise is a installation that layers elements of video and sound to dissect how our protective instincts attempt to preserve intimacy within over-saturated environments.
Whether it be the constraining physical landscapes of our surrounding city structures, the intangible spaces in which our digital personas reside or our... CONTINUE READING »
A series of sculptural video and sound that generatively morphs through underwater seismic reflection profiles, three-dimensional topographies and the scientific renderings of an ice gouge.
Untitled Antarctica includes two video pieces projected onto sculptural forms, a multi-channel sound piece and a series of prints. The first video piece iterates and generatively morphs through single-channel and multi-channel seismic reflection profiles compiled by geophysicists and studied by scientists over the last thirty years. Also used in the... CONTINUE READING »
Heaven or Hell?
Oculus is a sculpture you peer into - what you see depends on how you look at it.
The sculpture, Oculus, embodies the process by which our viewpoint shapes our reality.
Alternate worlds depicting extreme states of human ecstacy and misery are projected onto a neutral earthly diorama, transforming the same world into Heaven or Hell based on how the viewer’s eyes meander through the landscape. CONTINUE READING »
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