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Seen/Feel

David Temchulla, Yutong (Carlie) Zhang

A moving painting controlled by text the participants choose.

http://www.carlieyz.com/2016/11/16/moving-painting-plan/

Description

Every day, we speak. We talk to different people. Language and text are one of the most important ways we shape and express our own realities. So often it is not necessarily the words alone that have meaning, but the context in how those words are spoken. The concept behind Seen/Feel is to translate a text input that allows for alternative realities to be depicted with two-sided paint using the Moire pattern. As people choose what letters to place into a controller, spelling out words that help express themselves according to their own life experience and culture background the painting rotates to create and abstract Morie effect. Within the code there are also 2 words that when inputted(FEEL or SEEN), will complete the image on one side of the painting, either completing the image for the participant or completing an image for the viewers on the other side. Therefore creating two separate realities.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing ITPG-GT.2301.007

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Socially Sustained Ecologies

Chester Dols, Yutong (Carlie) Zhang

This is a social media visualizer, where creatures in this ecosystem are sustained through social media activity. Fail to feed them, they will feed on each other.

http://www.chesterdols.com/2016/12/07/social-media-sustained-ecology/

Description

Inspired by my childhood digital pet game, Tamagotchi, our project imagines a digital micro ecosystem which feeds off the social media activity: ‘posts’, ‘likes’, and ‘comments’. The system of intelligent behaviour particles, or flocks, swarm and feed from food source nodes which emit food particles and sustain the individual agents within the flock. The food nodes are taken from a users Instagram posts and the food particles are representative of the posts and comments on each post. Without sustained feeding of the flocking agents, the story takes a dark turn, the flock will start to exhibit abnormal behaviour as agents within the flock begin to cannibalise each other. The first flock changes into a predatory pack hunting down remaining agents from the original group until the food source returns.

People will be able to sustain and feed the flock agents of a specific instagram account. Provided the account username, users will add food and maintain a healthy ecosystem with their likes and comments to that Instagram account.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media ITPG-GT.2233.004