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…
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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,…
Creative Switch; Coffee Fidgets
When I first started on this project I wanted to do something with coffee cups. I realized that I have a habit of twisting my cap when I drink my coffee. With this I made a project that when I twist the cap in a certain position, it lights up the two LEDs at the…
Creative Switch: Sparkling Earrings!!
To make the earrings light up, you will need: – LED x6 – 3V Lithium battery x4 – earrings x2 – copper tape – beanie or hat – isolating tape – needle – thread – Soldering Iron – Needle nose pliers Light the LED earrings by wearing the beanie. The batteries are sewed in the two inner side of the…