Archive for May, 2011


Daniel Tsadok

An ethereal creature from another dimension, invisible to the naked eye, is imprisoned in our realm. See it now!

80% of the matter in the universe is Dark Matter, completely invisible. It is all around us, inside of us, and possibly part of us. Using Augmented Reality technology, Virtual Vivarium imagines a secret world made visible.

The imaginary world is completely alien, with its own logic,...CONTINUE READING »

Candice Holmes

A website using audio stories, photos, and mapping to explore personal Brooklyn histories of disappearing locations.

My project is a digital exploration of community memory and history through mapped audio narratives and photos. The focus is on places from the storyteller\'s past that no longer exist or if they do, not in the same way. ...CONTINUE READING »
Monday, May 9th, 2011
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Calli Higgins

memento takes a photograph, holds onto it and then surprises you with that memory at some point in the future. It brings the nostalgic experience of finding a forgotten roll of film to the world of digital cell phone photography.

Take one look at Facebook, Flickr, your hard drive or your phone and you become overexposed to photographed memories and desensitized to their effects. memento suspends these moments and delivers your past to your future present. Using the camera you have at all times, memento is an iPhone application that...CONTINUE READING »
Monday, May 9th, 2011
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Adib Dada

a breathing building skin that will exhibit symptoms of good or poor health depending on the pollution levels in its urban context

nafas* investigates the broad scope of Interactive Architecture and delves specifically into the field of Breathing Architecture.
nafas grows out of its site as an urban ecosystem, filtering pollutants out of the air through its algae and plant-filled atrium, organic photocatalyzing materials and providing habitat for displaced fauna and flora...CONTINUE READING »
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
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Jeff Howard

Designing stories that use your phone to place you in the middle.

With inLocation the viewer is able to experience the story in the same place it was filmed. By taking viewers out of more traditional spaces, inLocation aims to address questions of how location can change the way we experience story and how the change of locations can impact the influence...CONTINUE READING »
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
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Sarah Dahnke

: A performance installation that consists of a series of videos, reactive audio elements and live dance performances depicting various elements of psychological attachment. Each piece of the installation tells a small part of a multi-faceted, intimate story.

Attached includes a series of videos and movement-based duets that occur simultaneously to each tell one piece of a narrative. The audience is invited to walk through the performance space, viewing each piece in the order of their own choosing, weaving together the narrative as they go. In one duet...CONTINUE READING »
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
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Emily Ryan

Projected Affection is an interactive window display developed for AC Gears, New York’s premiere gadget boutique. The piece, created by NYU Graduate Student, Emily Ryan, reveals the hidden world of AC Gears by exploring a love story between the store’s two window mannequins. Employing projection mapping techniques and animations, their...CONTINUE READING »
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
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Neil Hickey

See a table that colors water based on human like sounds. Listen to a song that a house recorded and edited.

haus + table[s] is a set of \'things\'. These things are applications of a framework we call an \'Electro-Acoustic Scenery\' [EAS].
Among the applications presented are a table that maps sound frequencies to water using four colors. Another application is a series of houses, built with Michelle Temple, that function...CONTINUE READING »
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
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Minette Mangahas

A series of scores for music based on the topography of the human face and the unique patterns of the iris, Sonic Physiognomy uses facial scanning and iris identification technology to release rather than encumber our identities from data.

Sonic Physiognomy is my response to the politicization of the human face, drawing a relationship between the historical practices of physiognomy or face reading and the technologies of facial recognition and iris identification used for tracking and surveillance.

It is comprised of two projects.

The first is...CONTINUE READING »

Michael D Lewis

I am creating a mobile application (participate-mobile.com) that will connect individuals within densely populated cities around common interests with the goal of promoting local and community participation as a way of improving city life. ...CONTINUE READING »
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
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