Michel Waisvisz is a composer/performer of electronic music which is created by using the human body and the actions of touch to generate sound. Much of his work relies on elements of improvisation and chance group interaction. The sound generated through his various contraptions are thus direct products of their environment and conductor’s whims. He…
Category: Past Student Work
“BYOTV”
In February of 2009, the US will force a mandatory end to analog television broadcasts, in a regulated move towards digital upgrade. The shift will ultimately generate an enormous amount of e-waste when old monitors are discarded as useless. Portland-based artists,The Video Gentelman, wonder, “What residue, ghost-images, or other artifacts will persist in the nooks…
MIT’s Siftables
Researchers at MIT are rethinking the filesystem that exists in today’s computers. Rather than the traditional, one piece of hardware and numerous software programs, MIT’s Siftables consist of several modular-based hardware devices that allow data to be manipulated physically, by the arrangement and interaction between the modules. Each Siftable is a small OLED screen along…
The Hill Doesn’t Chant Anymore
The Hill Doesn’t Chant Anymore is a video installation piece from the Istanbul Biennial. It’s creators, Ege Berensel, Serhat H. Yalc inkaya and Banu Onrat use video footage on three side by side monitors to relay a story. The approach is not historic, but personal as villagers act in protecting their health and envoronment from…
The Hacking Possibilities of a Scale.
While the actual hack used in this link is not that great the idea of using a simple bathroom scale for a variety of hacks is interesting. The natural appearance of the the scale is it’s own disguise and could easily be used to trick people into your own hack project. What would be greater…
Fake Gold?
The National Ethiopian bank was ripped off for a lot of money in fake, gold plated steel gold bars.They tried to sell them to South Africa but were sent back when the South Africans relized that they were fake. Now the Ethiopians are arresting everyone involved in the sale and transfer of the gold. But…
mechanical dog
I have seen how difficult it is for scientist to make a robot walk on two feet, it seems that walking on four legs is a much more simple solution. The advantage to walking on feet instead of rolling on wheels is that you can cover more difficult terrain. This robot dog seems to show…
The Next Level In Gaming?
When we think of the future of gaming, we tend to imagine what Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony can come up with next. But what if the future of gaming is already here? Enter VirtuSphere, and it’s taking the idea of gaming away from the console. The VirtuSphere platform consists of a large hollow sphere that…
Zach Booth Simpson/Mine Control
Zach Booth Simpson is a molecular biologist and interactive artist. This post was inspired by the interactive video/control workshop this week in which I found out just exactly how easy interactive visual systems can be. This is Zach’s “Comet” piece, which allows people to fire comets at a solar system and see how they function….
First TV Memory
Joseph Delappe’s piece “First TV Memory” includes an explanation in the video, but it is a project emulating his first memory of watching tv. He tried to turn on the tv to watch Captain Kangaroo but instead found footage of JFK’s body being carried on a train. For this piece he uses a projector connected…
Modern painting machine
We often view advanced works of people who have been working in new media for quite some time, so this is more of a random profile of someone we can think of as a peer in the learning process. This is a video made by presumably a student of a new media arts class showing…
80 Million Tiny Images
This is a visualization of all the nouns in the English language as a mosaic. Each of the tiles represents one of 53,463 nouns. Tighter groupings of colors (such as the green) might correspond to a specific category such as plants/trees.