By Cassie Ogburn & Katrin Svadlena Our goal for this project was to make an interactive art piece to argue with/ let off steam. Inspired by Ulay and Abramović’s AAA-AAA; a performative art piece of which is a video of them just yelling at each other. So, we wanted something to prompt you, and suddenly…
Author: Katrin Svadlena
Slow Design
This may be broad, but the first thought that came to my mind while reading Slow Design was Graffiti. I understand it is far away from using any type of technology minus sharing it on sites like Facebook, but graffiti is the experience that can pass you by- it can reveal spaces itself, call attention…
Literally Me Crying
For this project I made an embroidered canvas crying red. I chose to make it crying, but it can be easily changed to create different emotions; by making it blush, or have lights around its head. Here is the walk though. Materials: Canvas 5 Red LEDs Conductive thread (any thread will work) Wire 3 metal…
Drawing Machine – Katrin Svadlena
I call mine CirclesFollow. I set out to code something that can write words with circles; I find circles to be aesthetically pleasing. So, first I made the background a deep blue, to provide contrast to the circles. I had a triangle of a lighter blue in the background, with the alpha value so it…
Processing Assignment 1
I first started by substituting every 0 for “CIRCLES”. I used a triangle in the background, centering it and setting the fill color to the same as the background, and setting the strokeWeight to 3 to get the outline. I used a mouse follow code and had circles randomly generated to follow the mouse. The…