I choose the living artistic installment by Eduardo Kac. (Specimen of Secrecy About Marvelous Discoveries) It was a multiple piece display of “Biotopes”, these biotopes represent his art that was a living subunit. They show a similar image that is in constant change. Changed only by itsself. He introduced multiple microorganisms that interact with each…

Packet Garden is a free software that records a users personal internet use and expresses the information that it records in a visual dipiction of a garden which takes into account geographical location of servers visitted, type of data accessed, uploading and downloading. The image of the garden is saved on the user’s computer and…

Efosa Okundaye wrote: I read about how Dulce Pinzon wrote a series on Mexican immigrants workers in New York, and how they were paid low wages and had to work really long hours. There were also Mexican workers who had to work in order to give money to their families back in Mexico. This caught…

So I’m a photography major here at UIC and I had never heard of this. HDR or High Dynamic Range photography. Apparently what the photographer does is takes several pictures of the same shot,(I’m assuming this works best at night) and all different exposures. Then using Photoshop you overlay all these images to get a…

While surfing on the websites that you steered us towards in class, I found an installation piece that I found to be particularly fascinating. The project, titled, “oil” by Tyler Adams, is comprised of a plastic box covered in oil. Inside the box is an electronic device that receives updates on every civilian death (war-related…

the pirating of music and movies has been going a major effect on the companies income. espacially major music labels and big time studios. because of pirateting, many comanies are losing money constantly year after year. the invention of HD DVD, and Blue Ray sought to put a stop to the pirateting.in recent news, some…

I found the project “wifi-sm news pain stimulation”. This piece is wireless and can be put on any part of the body. As you wear it will be connected to the internet scanning through news sources. When keywords such as death, murder, rape, ect come up it sends an electric pulse to the piece to…

I think it was an interesting concept to make an R2-D2 projector because it just seem so out there. Not only does it play DVD/CDs. The user can also dock their iPod onto the R2 unit there is also a MMC dock so users can display photos or video from a storage device. Also, periphal…