Culture – ITP/IMA Thesis/Capstone Week 2023

Supportive Web: working around digital barriers

May 8, 2020

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in Culture, IMA/ITP New York, Marcela Mancino von der Osten, Nancy Hechinger, Projects, Social Good/Activism, Thesis Part 2: Production

Marcela Mancino von der Osten Artists rely heavily on social media to support their work. Yet the most used platforms were not designed for us. Profit-driven distribution, limitations on organic reach, and content moderation make that very clear. How can professionals of the arts and audience members collaborate to work around these issues, challenging the…

Hyper Engagement

May 8, 2020

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in Art, Culture, Gabe Barcia-Colombo, IMA/ITP New York, Matthew Ross, Projects, Thesis

Matthew Ross Hyper Engagement is a collection of artistic interventions that aim to uncover hidden materiality in how communications technologies mediate our interpersonal relationships. Each of these projects aim to make tangible a hidden emotional choreography which tools like texting, video chats, and social media engage us in. I do this by taking traditional design…

The Neo Couture

May 8, 2020

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in Culture, Idith Barak, IMA/ITP New York, Kathleen Wilson, Projects, Thesis Part 2: Production, VR\AR

Idith Barak The Neo couture is a platform for fashion designers to generate AR experiences for retail environments in order to share their studio practice/process with customers in a new and engaging way. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-OAKnBRwPbX_bIHe0lPJUMfZyA66i8Kek6AqRVaJHDM/edit?usp=sharing Description The Neo Couture was born out of love for conceptual fashion design and the designers behind the creations. I am…

What Can A Library Do?

May 8, 2020

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in Chisom Onuoha, Culture, IMA/ITP New York, Projects, Rashida Kamal, Social Good/Activism, Thesis

Rashida Kamal This project is an examination of the histories and futures of libraries at the edges. https:// Description “What Can A Library Do?” seeks to answer the question it poses through a set of speculative interfaces for engaging with an existing collection of texts. The interfaces are based on research that examines the worldmaking…

Jackie's OS

May 8, 2020

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in Art, Culture, Jacquelyn Liu, Projects

Jacquelyn Liu Jackie’s OS is a speculatively reimagined operating system designed for (and with) my childhood self. A web-based experience simulating the childhood computing experience I wish I could’ve had, Jackie’s OS nostalgically longs for a timeline that never was – asking how things could have played out differently – both in how I grew…

Tofu

May 8, 2020

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in Chisom Onuoha, Culture, IMA/ITP New York, Nianqi Zhang, Projects, Thesis, VR\AR

Nianqi Zhang Tofu is a VR interactive installation that presents the consumption experience of convenience stores and street food in the city in a surreal way. It reflects consumers’ different relationships with food and the disappearing local marketplace culture behind this confrontation. https://nianqi.live/TOFU Description Tofu, an affordable ingredient with hundreds of shapes and cooking methods,…

DisneylandToyFactory.com

May 8, 2020

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in Art, Culture, IMA/ITP New York, Projects, Stefan Skripak, Stefani Bardin, Thesis

Stefan Skripak DisneylandToyFactory.com is a two-part critical art project made up of a satirical website and an ongoing 3D printing experiment. Through a repeated, cyclical process of 3D scanning and printing the same figurine of Mickey Mouse from a renowned Disney-branded Mold-A-Rama machine new, more compelling, figures are produced ,which are then advertised with satiric…

Another Pop-Up

May 8, 2020

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in Culture, IMA/ITP New York, Play/Games, Projects, Rachel Lim, Thesis, Zoe Fraade-Blanar

Rachel Lim An online pop-up store experience that parodies internet culture and advertising to an extreme. Infused with an attempt to softly subvert it through transparency and vulnerability. https:// Description What happens when we remove the concern of maximizing profit online? When we encourage kindness, genuineness, and vulnerability, will we be able to produce more…

Echoes

May 8, 2020

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in Brent Bailey, Culture, IMA/ITP New York, Machine Learning, Nancy Hechinger, Projects, Thesis Part 2: Production

Brent Bailey Echoes is a speculative software suite that uses artificial intelligence trained on its user’s email, messaging and voice data to automate personal communication. It explores the ways in which our data can and can’t be used to recreate ourselves. https://echoes.digital Description Since its beginning in the 1950s, the field of artificial intelligence has…

Overview

May 8, 2020

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in Culture, IMA/ITP New York, James Hosken, Kathleen Wilson, Narrative/Storytelling, Projects, Thesis Part 2: Production

James Hosken What does a collection of stories about isolation and social distancing look like? What do we gain when we experience those stories from a cosmic perspective? bit.ly/overview-broadcast Description The overview effect is a cognitive shift observed in astronauts who see the entire Earth from space. There is something about experiencing the whole planet…

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