Janet Cardiff is a Canadian artist who works mainly with sound which includes sound installations. Cardiff commonly works in collaboration with her husband, George Bures Miller. She created what are known as “audio walks” and became internationally recognized for them in 1995. Her and her husband currently work and reside in Berlin. Cardiff’s works have…

“My hovercraft is full of eels” Casey Reas is an artist who is one of the creators of the Processing programming language, along with Ben Fry. Reas’ works explore texts that define processes which is how his work is created. The works themselves have names such as Process X where X is a number. The…

Yuri Suzuki Yuri Suzuki is a Japanese sound artist and electronic musician who designs and creates things that deal primarily with sound and human’s interactions with it. His work spans from  musical instruments to sound installations and is usually well-designed, easily understandable and approachable, even for kids. One of his most recent projects, titled Ototo,…

The first topic that made me think of today is copyright. John mentioned the current (2004) climate of copyright issues, and some are far off yet some remain true today. 11 years ago, media piracy was relatively new topic in terms of the internet. P2P software like Limewire dominated the scene, and millions of files…

Light up an abnormal jellyfish anywhere in your place just by an easy switch!   Materials that you will need: -Conductive thread -Zip ties -Magnets (different sizes) -Resistor 180 Ohms -Three LED lights (blue, red, and yellow) -Soldering iron -Solder -Cable cord -Needle/Thread -Scissors -Electronic tape -Styrofoam (For mounting purposes) -two ground piece of a…

The purpose of this project was to turn on 12 heart shaped LEDs that would light up when a group of people holding hands completed a circuit, because amazingly electricity can flow through our skins. (Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_conductance) The setup was a simple circuit that was completed using a transistor that amplified the signal. Setup for…

Light up an abnormal jellyfish that you could hang up anywhere in your place! Materials that you will need: -Conductive thread -Zip ties -Magnets (different sizes) -Resistor 180 Ohms -Three LED lights (blue, red, and yellow) -Soldering iron -Solder -Cable cord -Needle/Thread -Scissors -Electronic tape -Chicken wire (Optional for jellyfish mold) -The ground piece of…

Ever wanted to make a make your own metal framed, LED lit, Soviet inspired satellite? Well now you can. This project cannibalizes an old umbrella frame into a wiry work of art, and lights up in different colors depending on how much you open the umbrella. The unique switch mechanism involves a sliding triple brush…

“A Reminder For Males”  Matthew Balzekas So you’ve birthed a son. Or you have a new boy friend. Or your brother just moved back in. While you’re in for a great deal of trouble in many ways that you may not understand yet, one of them is easily solvable with this grand new technology by…

Finish watching the Ippolito video and discuss at least 2 concepts or issues raised in his lecture that intrigued you and why. How do they effect you directly? Have these issues been resolved since the time of the lecture (2004)? I thought it was interesting when John Ipolito talked about learning (and cheating) in universities….

Finish watching the Ippolito video and discuss at least 2 concepts or issues raised in his lecture that intruiged you and why. How do they effect you directly? Have these issues been resolved since the time of the lecture (2004)? In the John Ipolito video, he mentions students plagiarizing when writing papers. One issue he brings…