Roi Ye
Art Toy Design class final projects
Description
Art Toy Design class final projects
Classes
Art Toy Design
Art Toy Design
Relectronics
Chun Song, Roi Ye, Caren Ye
Play the Relectonics.
Description
Relectronics are electronics who abandoned their original identity and transform into something different – telephones into a whack-a-mole game; a fan into a turntable; a turntable into a bubble machine.
This project started from the obsession we have with old electronics. Different from more modern ones with touch screens, we found it lots of fun playing with buttons and mechanisms they have.
This experience is quite thought-provoking for us. Why an abandoned, obsolete machine feels attractive to us? What motivates us to interact and play with a machine that may not be functional at all? Is it because the history behind it piques our curiosity? Is it because we want to recall the good old time through it? Is it because it's inefficiency makes it more human-like and rises our empathy? Is it because it inspires us to imaging an alternative world with more romance than the real one? Is it because…
This project is not an answer to our question because it’s difficult to define a certain one. It shows the process of trying to understand our complicated feelings towards old electronics.
“Re” means reborn, remade, refresh, renew. And rethink.
We hope views could rethink about the relationship between electronics and human with us by experiencing our project.
Classes
Introduction to Physical Computing
Spherror
Julia Fernandez
An playful, yet unconventional mirror commenting on the absurdity of reality.
https://jftech-art.com/f/an-unconventional-mirror
Description
In our project, we invite visitors to take a seat in a chair and look at themselves in our unconventional mirror. The “mirror” is 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide and was created with 20 polystyrene spheres fixed to wooden dowels. The dowels are attached to a hollow base that conceals the power source and any wiring, including the wiring for the webcam. Across from the mirror is a chair for visitors to sit and gaze at themselves, positioned in a way that mimics a traditional vanity mirror. A projector will be fixed from the ceiling and at the bottom of the chair for full projection mapping coverage of the spheres. Since it is projection mapping, we would like to request a darker room. When a visitor is seated in the chair, PoseNet will detect specific facial features (eyes, nose, mouth) isolate them, and assign them to a sphere in the p5.js sketch. We then take the p5 sketch into MadMapper and projection map each circle onto our physical spheres. In the p5 sketch, the isolated features will jump around to different positions, which in turn will jump around from sphere to sphere via projection mapping. When there is no human present, the p5 sketch will display a TV noise animation.
The project is a commentary on the absurdity of reality. By dissecting your facial features, it is easier to see how strange we look and how much stranger we look when our eye or our nose is isolated. The project is playful because it is a fun interactive installation that anyone can use, but it is also uncanny and even uncomfortable because it dissects, exposes, and magnifies your face. Though people love looking at themselves, how will they feel when their faces are distorted in such a way?
Classes
Comm Lab: Hypercinema, Creative Computing
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
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
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
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
Love Anthem
Nicholas Gregg, Woan-Chin LIN
An Augmented Reality audio-visual healing experience that takes the audience through my personal love journey in NYC.
Description
It would be a 5-min AR walk in Washington Square Park that takes the audience from one spot in Washington Square Park to the arch by having them follow my emotional rollercoaster of my love life in NYC which is visualized as a trail in AR. When the audience follows the trail made of a transparent tube, the tube would be filled with color and the original song with my original poem narrated in my voice would be played. The experience would reach its climax when the trail brings the audience to the fountain and have them look up to see a word in front of the arch that summarizes the end result of my love journey here.
The demo video is a prototype of when the transparent tube is filled with color, the music would play using raycasting technique.
We want the physical pose of the audience following the trail as a general portrayal of people who fall in love, focusing on only the new connection that was born, and neglecting to see other wonderful things happening in the world as possibilities, which could look funny from other people’s perspective. Eventually, when the trail brings the audience to the huge word made of a transparent tube in the sky in front of the arch, the pose of the audience would also be opened up, symbolizing the moment when they finally see the whole picture and are able to take in the world instead of focusing on one point of their life.
Classes
Experiments in Augmented Reality
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
The forest
Hyunseo Lee
It's metaphorical breathing trees.
https://hyunseo100.wordpress.com/2019/12/04/wintershow/
Description
The concept is that human being is a small element of the nature and it is able to be exchangeable, coexisting and mutual among the elements, which is that we could be a part of nature and also the nature is could be a part of our body.
Classes
Introduction to Physical Computing