Photo credit: Kristin Lucas Barcode Cinema is a collaboration between Kristin Lucas and Lee Montgomery that appeared at Conflux Festival New York in 2010. It involved stickers featuring QR codes within a movie screen that were placed throughout the festival locations. By scanning the codes with smartphones, viewers gained access to video of geotagged images…

As I was reading the text I noticed mention of a lot of interactive or game related works.  These artists appealed to me especially because I spend most of my free time playing video games.  The first artist I picked was Cory Arcangel.  The reading mentions his work Super Mario Clouds, which is a Super…

Roy Lichtenstein The first artist I found that was very interesting to me, was Roy Lichtenstein. He was a pop artist during 60’s and 70’s. He is very unique in his style and work. Because he worked in a same area in which I would like to work, I was drawn to his art once…

Reading 1: Natalie Bookchin – Mass Ornament Mass Ornament is a collection of YouTube videos of people dancing in their homes that are synchronized to different pieces of music. From Natalie Bookchin’s site, “In his essay Mass Ornament (1927(, Zigfried Kracauer argued that the synchronized movements of chorus line dancers reflected the logic of the…

The reading briefly mentioned an artist who was a Net Art pioneer named Olia Lialina. She is from Moscow and makes net art as well as videos. One of my favorite pieces of hers is In Memory of Chuck Poynter.  In Memory of Chuck Poynter, 2011 I couldn’t get the actual piece into this post because…

One interesting artist form “Art in the age of distribution” was Cory Arcangel. Cory manipulated technology in order to create unique works of art. While reading the article it instanty grabbed my attention when it mentioned Cory’s “Super Mario Clouds” project. Being a gamer myself, who grew up playing Super Mario, I had to find…

HOME SWEET HOME Interactive Shadow box For my final project, I was interested in incorporating sounds and LEDS into a cool shadow box scenery. My first proposal was centered around a cricket and its sound effects.Also, moving grass with motors ( that was deemed too noisy)  and an LED moon. After much discussion with the class,…

My final project was a waterfall using blue LED’s. The lights respond to a ping sensor in the front. When the sensor has something in front of it the lights will turn off and stay off until the object is moved. The sensor is set to change the lights when something is less than 46cm…

   The idea was to make a robot helmet after Joshua stated that all my projects had a similair cyborg aesthetic. The helmet was always meant to have two components. One was a voice changer of some kind and the other was a device that would light up LED’s when it “hears” sound. Problem was…

This is my Drawing Machine II. The design is simple, functioning with only one dc motor. The 9v battery, Arduino, and wiring are located at the top, between the disposable plates. The drawing happens when the motor spins the mechanism at the bottom. There is a small brush attached at one side where one can…

     This project is about a car that turns to the left depending on how much light the photo resistor receives. The more light the photo resistor gets, the more it will steer to the left.  I made this project to see what other things I can do with Legos using outside components.  I also figured I should…

the game is played by having the child guess what animal the misery animal  is and then having then pass by the animal and activating a random animal sound. if the child guesses wrong they go to the back of the line. if they guess right then they win the game. there is also a party…