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mountain on the ridge of your hand

Lu Lyu

an installation of a mountain that is correspond to the ridge of your hand.

https://jiaolyuluwebsite.netlify.com/course/pcom/

Description

Human’s firm and gentle can be told with clenched fists and open inclusinve plam. In this way, the ridge of the hand can be fluctuated hardly or smoothly. These can shape a mountain of human character.

Human can be firm and gentle, so do a mountain to be hard and soft. I want to metaphor a human being as a mountain.

There is a mountain on everybody's hand. By inserting your hand into a stone and pushing up your hand, the mountain is sensing you and fluctuate with your gentle hand movement.

When an ordinary person like Lulu is here at the installation, she saw a flat surface. When she put her fist firm into the mountain surface, then she would see the mountain arise.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

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MIDI BLADE

Douglas Goldstein

My project explores the electronic sport of fencing, combat, and the human body as interfaces for musical expression.

https://www.douglasjaygoldstein.com/p-comp/2019/11/6/swashbuckle-a-duet-for-two-swordsmen

Description

“En Garde!” But why fight when we can leverage this ancient form of combat toward generative musical composition? Duels to Duets is an experiment in making love, not war. Step right up and challenge a friend or foe for an experience of wonder and delight as the soft foam sabers track IMU data from Arduino Nano, affixed to the pommel of the “weapon”/instrument to Ableton Live in this unique bout of physical and musical interaction. Neither fencing nor musical experience are required to enjoy. Will you accept the challenge?

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

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Orange Juice Squeezer

Xiaoyun_Sherry_ Liu

A cup of orange juice you cannot drink but you can see, hear, and smell it.

https://sherryliulxy.wixsite.com/itp2019/project-description

Description

Smell is a very important sense of human begins. It can always remind people of some memories and feelings. The Orange Juice Squeezer uses a common juice as a representation to create an immersive environment for people, instead of its original way(drink the juice) of interaction with people, through the joint feelings of other senses, to make people feeling like they drinking the juice.

People will experience a real making juice process and the smell will come out from the humidifier. And there will be a video project on the back of the squeezer.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

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The Fire Bird

Fernando Gregório Catto

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

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Racing Thoughts

Emily Zhao

If your positive and negative thoughts had to race, which one would win?

https://emilyzhaoblog.wordpress.com/category/intro-to-physical-computing/

Description

Racing Thoughts is an interactive experience that aims to bring awareness to one’s relationship with themself and their thoughts. The project prompts users to write one positive sentence and one negative sentence about themselves. At the end, their response times for each thought will be printed on a receipt, as well as their actual responses, for them to take.

Did it take longer to say a positive or negative thought? Are the two sentences equal in severity? Was the experience taken seriously? These are all questions I want the user to reflect on.

While it might be tempting to compare one's response times with other's, I want to stress that this experience is meant to spark SELF-reflection. It is also important to remind people to accept all their thoughts, both positive and negative, for we are not our thoughts.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media: Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

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Levitating Lightbulb

Vanessa Chesnut

It's a gravity defying, hovering light bulb that works through magnetic levitation

https://https://vanessachesnutitp.wordpress.com/2019/12/02/final-project-idea-levitating-magnetic-lightbulb/

Description

I wanted to create a piece that not only looks beautiful but which is also interactive. Users will lower the bulb over the magnetic base ( a wooden box) until the LED lights up. The user will begin to feel an upward resistance. When the bulb is positioned exactly at the center of the base, they will feel a gentle release. The electro-magnets will automatically center the bulb in position. Once placed over the box, the bulb will begin to rotate & potentially play music (the Arduino helps it rotate).

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

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Comb the Tree

, Siyuan Zan, Tianjun Wang

Using projection mapping and music interaction to make human and tree communicate with each other

https://

Description

For the music part,the surface of the tree looks very rhythmic, with tracks and irregular block pattern. We want to use the data collected from the surface pattern of the tree to compose the music played when combing the tree. For the projection part, the surface of the tree reminds me of the blood vessels under the skin or the wrinkles on the face.By using noise graphic generated in p5 and communicated with distance sensor,the projection interacted with the comb when someone combing the tree. In this way, the one who comb could feel like they were combing a lively texture and communication with the tree.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

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SELF REINFORCEMENT

Noah Kernis

SELF REINFORCEMENT is a piece exploring the relationship between HUMANS, COMPUTERS, and how they “see” and interact with each other

https://blog.noahkernis.com/posts/itp/fall_2019/intro_phys_comp/07_self_reinforcement/

Description

SELF REINFORCEMENT explores the relationship between HUMANS, COMPUTERS, and how they “see” and interact with each other.

The piece allows for a HUMAN to work with a COMPUTER to create a HUMAN-like form using the video feed from multiple cameras observing the gallery crowd. The video feed is processed in real time by the BodyPix Tenserflow.js library to isolate body parts.

A HUMAN, via a control box, can assign the feed from any of the video feeds, to a body part. The result is a body-collage that may have many heads, torsos, and so on. The HUMAN and COMPUTER work together to create a representation of a person. Both the strengths and biases of each are combined to create the final representation.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

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Elastic Heart

, Noah Kernis, Pippa Kelmenson

Elastic Heart looks at the relationship between humans, their organs, and what it means to transplant an organ.

https://www.pippakelmenson.com/ipc/2019/10/23

Description

Elastic Heart looks at the relationship between humans, their organs, and what it means to transplant an organ.

The transplant process requires a donor, a recipient, and a third party to transport the organ. The person transporting the organ gains another organ for the duration of the trip.

When a person places their hand on the sides of the piece, they touch a pulse sensor. In response, the heart starts to “beat” at the person's BPM. A screen also displays the pulse over time.

By holding the box, the person becomes the organ transport. The pulse reflects the persons, revealing it is now part of them.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing