A collective digital installation that visualizes the passes of life using people's heart beat

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Description

The Relative time is an art installation that visualizes the passes of life using people's heart beat. From scientific research, there is limited total heart beat number in one's life. Every time you heart beats, your life passes, like the time elapses. So this installation records and visualizes your heart beat to beautiful patterns and with the accompany of different clocking sounds, it reminds people to treasure your life.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media

The Fire Bird is a character activated by a wearable device that reacts to gestures and movement generating sound, light and video effects.

https://fernandogregor.io/2019/12/11/the-fire-bird/

Description

The Fire Bird is a first experiment on building characters exploring interactive wearable technologies. This is a work in progress.

To compose the character, I've created gloves that generate different light, sound and animation effects according to the gestures of the performer that embodies the Fire Bird to tell their story.

Movement 1

The Fire Bird flies away from home because their house was put on fire by someone who couldn't understand the way the Fire Bird was living.

Movement 2

The Fire Bird flies to the city, alone, and finds a place to sleep.

Movement 3

The Fire Bird dreams for so long, that the invisible seed that was inside of their belly grows and turns into a tree.

Questions to keep moving:

What's the seed that is inside of the belly of the Fire Bird made of?

How does the tree that grows from the belly of the Fire Bird look like?

Classes

Intro to Fabrication, Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

An interactive installation that sheds light on the heavily censored #metoo movement in China

https://nachen.info/2019/12/10/confession-booth/

Description

This is an installation that sheds light on the heavily censored #metoo movement in China last year. Participants can interact with it either inside or outside a confession booth. The person inside the booth — or the “speaker” — will read a paragraph out loud, which will be a first person account from a real sexual assault victim. As they’re reciting the passage, a p5 sketch will use speech recognition to detect their voice. If the words are not clearly uttered, a high pitch sound will be triggered to interfere with the participants. Outside the booth, other participants — “listeners” in this case — will hear the message delivered by the speaker and see the booth blinking every time the speaker gets the word right. The noise in this case symbolizes the censorship apparatus in China and the light is the symbol of the user's endeavor. In order to turn off the speaker, the participants need to speak louder and clearer. The purpose is to create an uncomfortable yet empowering experience and put participants into the shoes of sexual assault victims.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing, The Uses of Discomfort

“Black Projection” is a portal mapping device that allows users to explore the interconnectedness of time, space, and racist hegemonic design systems.

https://cyberwitch666.wordpress.com/2019/12/04/black-projection-update-2/

Description

The portal mapping device is navigated through the use of magnets, a sacred tool that acts as a powerful force as we uncover the truth. These magnets trigger different images and text of different “nodes” which correspond to different themes or moments in history.

Ideal location would be a more intimate space such as one of the study rooms.

A Zine will also be accompanying the project that will be a compilation of research, thoughts, and resources for people to take with them beyond the project.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

A stage lighting tool designed to allow users to test their lighting designs before final development and/or learn the basics of lighting design.

https://wp.nyu.edu/benjaminmoll/physical-computation-final-project-post/

Description

This project is born out of my frustration as an amateur lighting designer for theater wherein I often had to rely on analog lighting designs prior to “moving in” to a space. Allowing a designer to try out their looks at a small scale provides a great feedback step to finalize design concepts before committing full scale. Finally, this project can be used to introduce the basics of lighting design in a low-cost educational setting as opposed to expensive simulation softwares available currently. The L.I.V.E tool provides three key controls in position, brightness and color of two separate lights which are simply structured with a joystick controller and browser sliders. The look of the project has been intentionally left simple to emphasize the plug and play concept of the circuit on any type of stage setting though I will provide some minimal stage design to accompany the project for demonstration purposes. Ultimately, the project is a prototype for both a halfway design step that I believe is missing from current amateur processes as well as an introductory platform for introducing lighting concepts at a student level.

The function of the circuit is based on Arduino Nano, p5.js Serial communciation and the AxiDraw EiBotBoard. These three components allow for the Nano to read inputs such as the joystick and sliders and then write those commands to the AxiDraw or stepper motor all through the p5 Serial library. Each control has a unique character flag that the Arduino or EiBotBoard code handles and interprets as movement control or LED commands. The LEDs are AdaFruit Flora Neopixels and the stepper motor belt is driven by an EasyDriver motor driver circuit attached to the Arduino.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing