Essay Concerning Human Understanding—Eduardo Kac and Ikuo Nakamura Essay Concerning Human Understanding was a long-distance sound installation created by Eduardo Kac and Ikuo Nakamura in 1994 that allowed a canary in Lexington, Kentucky to communicate with a philodendron plant 600 miles away in New York. A microphone and speaker connected to a circuit board was…

The main concept that stood out to me from the reading was that of telematics. The text defines it as, “the science and study of exploring the actual and philosophical issues of sensing and acting at a distance using computers, networks, and feedback sensors.” The text’s example of robot-assisted microsurgeries prompted me to consider another…

How to make a LED Hat!! Materials: – Conductive Thread – 2 LED lights ( does not matter on the color ) – Conductive tape – A Resistance (  it depends on what you need so your LED’s won’t burn out ) – A small needle to thread with – A small battery holder w/…

Twin Reflex Camera LED Light First step is to take off the top of the camera, or the viewfinder, unscrew the top four screws Next step is to put copper tape on the two parts of the inside metal that touch when the viewfinder is open, This will act as the switch. One will go…

I chose to talk about The Legible City because I found the fact of using a bike to be interesting for a piece of route. Also doing things that combine parts of your body like your eyes, hands and feet were really cool. In the article, he talks about how he “remembers the toxicating feeling…

    While reading the article, I went out of my way to research different types of interactive art pieces. That’s when I came across Dune 4.1.  The following video shows an interactive landscape of “light” piece of work, placed in the Maastunnel of Rotterdam, called Dune 4.1, which interacts with touch, movement, and sound….

The Listening Post By: Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen http://modes.io/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Listening-Post-Wall-2.jpg Links-Video      Listening Post originally stood out to me because of the authors strong opinions of why it was not considered true “interactive art”. Huhtamo says its not interactive art because those experiencing the installment do not actually interact with it. They simply listen…

Messa di voce [ˈmessa di ˈvoːtʃe] (Italian, “placing of voice”) is a musical technique that involves a gradual crescendo and diminuendo while sustaining a single pitch.  By the same name, an an audiovisual interactive stage performance by Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman. Custom interactive visualization software augments the speech, shouts and songs produced by two virtuoso vocalists in real-time….

The work that stands out to me within “Trouble at the Interface 2.0” is “Zerseher (Iconoclast)” by Joachim Sauter and Dirk Lusebrink. Initially, I was drawn to the concept, which as described by the author, essentially gives the viewer an opportunity to “destroy” a “painting” just by looking at it. Technologically speaking, the hardware behind…

Piano as Image Media — Toshio Iwai 1995 Toshio Iwai’s Piano as Image Media uses a grand piano and a trackball-as-interface to allow visitors to compose multi-colored visual melodies generated by the sounds that the piano produces. This piece stood out to me because the process of moving through stages of physical intervention, to visual/digital,…

As I was reading this article and researching the aforementioned interactive media art forms, I came across Myron Kreuger’s “Videoplace.” The way the technology mimicked movements and transferred them on to a different surface made me think of one of my favorite interactive media pieces, the wooden mirrors. The wooden mirrors is a piece created…

The very first and most intriguing interactive art piece to me was “The Legible City” by Jeffery Shaw. This piece involves a simulated “city” as a stationary biker pedals their way through the screen. The viewer as complete control of  the direction and speed of travel as they travel the virtual world. I appreciate the…