Scott Snibbe Scott Snibbe is one of the leading innovators, inventors, and contributors to the new media arts having been imbedded in the field since the 1990’s. His work with interactive projectors, computer software, and instillation art has led to an extremely generative career within the arts and sciences. He has not only been recognized…

Matthew Balzekas NEW MEDIA PROJECT CONCEPTS; All ideas are for the beginning of the final project. Sculpture that is reactionary to volume levels and that incorporates large and small LEDS attached to it that exceeds at least two feet. In this project I would like to push my mechanical construction skills more than my programming…

          For my project, I am going to revamp the LED Gloves I had previously shown. For this project, I plan on using EL wire instead of the LEDs I had been using. It will eliminate the entire process of using the conductive thread and making the gloves have problems not…

         For my project, I wanted to recreate the movement of a Mimosa Pudica. This plant’s leaves, when touched, close up and eventually reopen.  For my prototype, I want to practice creating the shape of the leaves and flowers in paper first.  By doing this, the aesthetic part of the project will be figured out. To get…

1) What is plausible and what is implausible about the future that Jesse Schell describes and, most importantly, make a clear case for why?  I think it is possible that the eye sensors for objects, such as the idea of sensors being in kindles and watching how we read, is very plausible. I think it…

1) What is plausible and what is implausible about the future that Jesse Schell describes and, most importantly, make a clear case for why? I think the future Jesse Schell describes of technology having an increasing and over-reaching presence in people’s lives is very possible and is already occurring to an extent. Each week on…

Finish watching the Ippolito video and discuss at least 2 concepts or issues raised in his lecture that intrigued you and why. How do they effect you directly? Have these issues been resolved since the time of the lecture (2004)? I thought the Pool project was a fascinating project that used collaborative methods and a democratic merit…

My group of choice to present is ART+COM, a German based new media collaboration founded in 1988. They collaborate with other artists, designers, engineers, and scientists alike. The main focus is on communicating artistic, social, or historical ideas using effective modern technology. They have installations for public and private institutions alike, such as museums or…

Janet Cardiff is a Canadian artist who works mainly with sound which includes sound installations. Cardiff commonly works in collaboration with her husband, George Bures Miller. She created what are known as “audio walks” and became internationally recognized for them in 1995. Her and her husband currently work and reside in Berlin. Cardiff’s works have…

“My hovercraft is full of eels” Casey Reas is an artist who is one of the creators of the Processing programming language, along with Ben Fry. Reas’ works explore texts that define processes which is how his work is created. The works themselves have names such as Process X where X is a number. The…

Yuri Suzuki Yuri Suzuki is a Japanese sound artist and electronic musician who designs and creates things that deal primarily with sound and human’s interactions with it. His work spans from  musical instruments to sound installations and is usually well-designed, easily understandable and approachable, even for kids. One of his most recent projects, titled Ototo,…