Jer Thorp – ITP Winter Show 2016

Shangbo Chen

A quick but in-depth view of the current state of border barriers around the globe.

Description

World Border Barrier is a data visualization about the impact and relationship between border-barriers around the world.

A response to Trump's plan to build a wall, I tried to understand the true meaning and consequences of this wall. It started as a visual comparison between Trump's wall and Berlin wall, then I realized a bigger underlying issue is the history of people using border barriers for multiple purposes. By analyzing and visualizing data about this walls, this project hope to capture differences and similarities between different border barriers and present itself in an approachable yet in-depth way.

Classes

Data Art

Aaron Parsekian, Lisa M Jamhoury

Threads is an interactive performance experience that breaks down the barrier between audience and performer by exposing the body’s vital signs as visualisations.

http://lmj.io/category/fall2016/big-screens/

Description

While much has been done with revealing the physical body through motion capture in performance art, less has been done in taking into account closer readings from the body. In this experience, performers wear sensors measuring electrography—specifically electromyography (EMG) and electrocardiography (EKG). The data is transmitted wirelessly and combined. The resulting data is represented visually and sonically in real time. In this way, the performer’s body electric lights the performance environment. Threads currently measures EKG (heart rate) with Polar heart rate bands, and EMG (muscle electric) with MyoWare Electromyography sensors. The data from these sensors is then sent over a wireless serial bridge to a computer providing algorithmic visuals made in Processing. Each sensor has added wearable lighting to show the sensor readings in real time.

Classes

Data Art, Big Screens, Designing for Live Performance