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ZAZA's Sky Forest

Hanwen Zhang, Tingyu Zhang

Who's up for a dream adventure?

https://www.zttyzzz.com/post/pcom-final-proposal

Description

Our project is inspired by “DREAM”. It is difficult to be described and captured. However, It is wonderful and attract people to touch. Therefore, we hope to build a bridge to connect the dream and the real world.
Our character is named ZAZA and the “sky forest”, which is a floating forest is the dream world of ZAZA. We hope to evoke the audiences’ memories of dreams by interacting with the dream of ZAZA. Since the changes of physical world could influence the dream, we hope to develop more about this property. We built the ZAZA’s Bedroom, the audience could interact with the components in the room, such as rotating the bed, pushing the chair, changing the lightings. At the same time, it will cause sounds, light, temperature, finally the magic will happen in this forest.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing, Introduction to Physical Computing

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Confession Booth

Na Chen

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

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Thirsty Plant

Zeyao Li

Thirsty Plant will get wet and horny once you like its tweet, so don't leave it alone.

https://www.notion.so/zeyaoli/Thirsty-Plant-79314a375e4a45acb179576a839d7dc2

Description

Thirsty Plant will get wet and horny once you like its tweet, so don't leave it alone. It is a LED-made plant that desires to be watered by human beings. The audience will go on the plant's twitter account (@thirsty_plant) and like its tweets (mostly something its thirsty for). Once the plant receives likes and followers, water will be gathered in the pot and go up through the streamline. The leaf will turn from dark brown to green. It will also erect and stretched once it's fully watered. When no tweet gets liked, it slowly turns back to brown and water will be back to the ground. The leaf will be tilted and sad again. It is meant to reflect on people's thirstiness for likes and followers on social media in the digital age.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

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Athena's Lament

Stefan Skripak

“Athena's Lament” is a light art sculpture that critiques the continually defended colonialist art collections of major western museums by visualizing the way in which an art objects aura leeches from it while being forcibly kept from its country of origin.

https://youtu.be/pFsV8myTbCQ

Description

This piece is a 15x15in wall-mounted replica of a section of the frieze from the upper section of the Parthenon building in Athens Greece. It is currently being held in the British Museum collection despite the dubious means of its acquisition and continued requests by the Greek government for its return. The model file itself was made available by the British Museum, but with certain restrictions. By taking this model and then algorithmically glitching it, I have attempted to represent the way in which this object’s captivity (both physically and within the British Museum’s digital oversight) has corrupted it and allowed the incredible works aura and spirit to leech out. The glitch pattern comes specifically from clusters of 3D pixels which each represent the passing of one week since the object was first removed from Greece in 1812. To further represent the soul of this work and its significance to Greek history and culture, the light emanating from the glitched cracks is generated by a low-resolution video of the Greek landscape.

Classes

Designing for Digital Fabrication, Light as a Medium of Art: Ways of Seeing Now

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Behind a Tomb

Nianqi Zhang, Tianyi Xie

An interactive sculptural tomb that explores the philosophy of death.

https://

Description

An interactive sculptural tomb that explores the philosophy of death.

We usually look at the front of a tomb and ignore its back. To discuss the meaning of death to the dead and people alive, we are designing a tomb that has an interactive backside where ferrofluid is moving constantly according to time and the number of people that are visiting the tomb.

The project is fabricated with CNC, laser cutter and driven by stepper motors.

Classes

Designing for Digital Fabrication

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Smart Container

Rui Wang

A serial of DIY normalized containers with different functions.

https://jasperwang.org/digital-fabrication/container/

Description

A serial of normalized containers with different functions.

You can raise your flower with soil; you can raise a green plant with water only; you make a home for small cute fish; you can also build a nest for your spider.

The embedded sensor will detect the moisture content of the soil, it will alarm you when it gets thirsty. Also, you can customize different thresholds for different plants.

You can also connect a lot of containers together easily using the magnetic socket, which means you can design your own ecosystem.

Make your own secret garden, make your own secret stories.

Classes

Designing for Digital Fabrication, Prototyping Electronic Devices

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It Could Be Next Time (There Is No Next Time)

Nikhil Kumar

Interactive poem and musical composition reflecting on emotional attachment, impermanence and decay.

https://nikhilkumar.media

Description

It Could Be Next Time explores the relationship between emotional attachment, impermanence and decay through sound and interaction. The audience plays an important role in unlocking sequences of music and spoken word during the performance.

The physical piece is built with orange peels in various states of freshness and decay. When an orange peel is pulled out of a switch and buried in soil, spoken audio– thoughts and memories in various states of freshness and decay– and associated music begins to play. As the sculpture is disassembled, the poem and music becomes more complete. Ultimately, after the physical structure is undone and the orange peels are returned to the soil, the intangible poem/sounds continue to exist.

Audience members can interact with It Could Be Next Time at various stages of its lifecycle and will themselves contribute to the order in which the piece plays. Chance is an important component, and the coherence of the experience for an audience member at any snapshot in time will depend in part on when and how they interact with the piece.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

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Wind, Rocks, and Women

Katie Han, Sue Roh

Wind, Rocks, and Women is an interactive sound exhibit that tells the stories of two mothers in Korea: a mother in Seoul, where the traditional female role of domesticity prevails, and a haenyeo in Jeju Island, where women have greater freedom and status atypical of Korean society.

https://www.katiewhan.com/itp-blog?category=haenyeo

Description

South Korea, despite being one of the largest economic powerhouses in the world, is consistently ranked as one of the highest countries in gender pay gaps in the OECD. With economic disadvantages undoubtedly come social implications of sexism that is deeply entrenched in all strata of Korean society. Particularly, women are expected to quit the workforce as full-time mothers due to societal pressures or sometimes outright discrimination by their employers.

This is why we are particularly drawn to the haenyeo of Jeju Island who seem to defy the classic patriarchy that dominates mainland Korea. Haenyeo are divers in Jeju Island who submerge up to thirty meters underwater without the help of oxygen masks to gather abalone, octopus, and other delicious deep sea treasures. Though their occupation is dangerous, it is also lucrative, often designating them as breadwinners of their family. Their historical importance has contributed to Jeju’s characteristic semi-matriarchal attitude and the island’s three proud abundances (samda): wind, rocks, and women. They are the epitome of eco-feminism with their strong, tight-knit group of haenyeo who care for each other’s safety and wellbeing, while simultaneously ensuring the preservation of the ecosystem to which they owe their livelihood.

Our project serves as an homage to the haenyeo of Jeju Island, whose population is largely dwindling as expert haenyeo age and their daughters choose safer jobs on land. The installation is set in Jeju Island with the Hallasan volcano where gods and spirits oversee the island and the surrounding Korean Strait. Peppered in the water and on the volcano lie various objects narrating two parallel stories, one of haenyeo and another of a mother in Seoul.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

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Dialogue

Wei Kang

wearable tech project: use color sensor to sense colors of surrounding, and change the patterns of the garment.

https://wp.nyu.edu/weikang/dialogue-1st-semester-final-project/

Description

Dialogue is a wearable project that try to use technique to generate fashion. In definition, fashion is a social conception which means aesthetic expression in a certain time and context, combines with garments or something else. In the world formed of numbers and data, our aesthetic expressions are changed based on the interactions between we and surrounding, numbers flows behind as well. So in this project, I try to use number communication to generate fashion. Using color sensor to return surrounding RGB values, and control servos to change the pattern of the garments and colors as well.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

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Immersive Meditation with Lights / Space

Tundi Szasz

Light installation controlled by sound and your brainwaves. It will be modulated by sound and light, with pillows on the ground where people can relax in the space. They put on headphones, and see the lights change.

http://www.tundiszasz.com/itp/category/Physical+Computing

Description

Brainwaves (MUSE headset) is connected of a projector running a p5 sketch, which immersively fills the room with COLOR to indicate progress in relaxation. In addition, there will be an LED halo hanging above people's heads which will also be controlling COLOR by your brainwaves, to confirm that yes you have fully relaxed. So both pieces are reflected by the headset.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing