An Extremely Bipolar Device

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…

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…