Name: Ashley Villagrana Teacher: Sabrina Raaf An artist and a game designer Eddo Stern was chosen by me. He has such interesting projects that are violent, fun and interactive in the world of video games and real life. To combine the two he loves to use in his projects electronic stimulation to give the game…
Author: Sabrina
Amy Youngs
I have chosen Amy Youngs as the artist I want to present in class. Amy Youngs creates biological art, interactive sculptures and digital media. Her works explore a variety of subjects. She mainly explores the “complex relationship between technology and our changing concept of nature and self”. Youngs uses electronics, kinetics, sounds, insects, plants and…
Artist Description : Usman Haque
The artist I choose for my artist presentation is Usman Haque. Usman is a London based artist, architect, and director of the Haque Design + Research. Within the world of architecture, he creates interactive installations in which people are active participants in their environments. In certain spaces, he has digital projections that function to the…
David Rokeby: New Media Designer
I have chosen to present information on the New Media Artist David Rokeby and his works. David Rokeby is an artist based in Toronto, Canada; since 1982 he has been exhibiting and creating art that has been displayed throughout the world, including Canada, United States, Europe, and Asia. In the beginning of this career, Rokeby…
Leonardo Ulian
Leonardo Ulian has some beautiful artwork using electronic components and another piece that uses Arduinos, speakers and junk electronics
Asobi by Yasutoki Kariya
Art with solenoids and light
Slow Design Principles in Designed Products
Immediately after reading “Priniciple 1: Reveal”in Carolyn F. Strauss’s and Alastair Fuad-Luke’s “The Slow Design Principles,” the new iPhone came to mind. It was when I read the part about materials and methods being overlooked that made me think of the iPhone 5 and eventually just Apple in general. On Apple’s website there is a video…
Slow Design Principles
The first design project that really intrigued me was Tyranny of the Plug by Dick Van Hoff. These are various kitchen machines that perform actions of chopping, blending, or churning with the use of electricity. In this particular design project, it uses no electricity, and instead, it uses human energy. This fits into the slow…
Slow Design Principles response
Student: Ashley Villagrana Teacher: Sabrina Raaf Class: Intro to responsive arts Called the Pythagora Switch is a educational television program that airs on television. Shows the number one principal in the Slow Design principles, which is to participate. They displayed what they call interactive physical properties that we normally in everyday life can see. This…
Applications of Slow Design Principles
While researching different works that use Slow Design Principles, I found a project titled Amazingness by Anna Hillman. Amazingness, a collection of photographs taken throughout London, was Hillman’s way of presenting the sublimity and “amazingness” of nature in urban life. Through this project, Hillman captures several Slow Design Principles, particularly revealing experiences in…
Hot Wheels Flash Light
I originally was going to do something different. however that fell through. so when i remembered the showing of the tic tac light, it inspired me do make it one step further, while also coming up with y own creative light switch, phone jacks. Supplies: 1 Hot wheels Car 2 LED lights, choice of colors,…
Shoot at the shadows light gun
Afraid to wander from your room to the kitchen or bathroom in the dark of night? Fear no more! By turning a common water gun into a light gun you can be protected from the creepers that lurk in the darkness! You will first need; -Water gun -6 Volt battery -8ohms resistor -Clear plastic cap…