Marcel Duchamp is a French painter and sculptor. He’s often associated with Dadaism, which is a term coined by himself around the time of his readymades in 1913. Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase” is oil on a canvas. It’s known as one of the most famous of it’s time. The artwork was confusing for me…

I selected Experiments in Touching Color by Jim Campbell because I like the idea of interaction in the concept. In the exhibit, a user selects a single pixel, out of a series of moving images, by the touch of his/her hand which causes the screen to change into a corresponding single dynamically changing color. I…

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is an electronic artist originally from Mexico who creates interactive installations that involve robotics and usually combine performance art with social issues. ‘1,000 Platitudes’ is a project he describes as an “intervention” in which he projected words and expressions commonly used to describe modern, globalized cities on the sides of buildings, churches, and castles,…

Feng Mengbo – Q4U(2002) Chinese new media artist Feng Mengbo brought a novel, personal spin to the 1996 computer game Quake. Q4U is a 32 minute video created from the Quake game engine, with a spectator’s perspective on an in-game battle. Instead of using the stock characters, Feng modified the skins and made the main…

 The first artist whose work interested me was John F Simon Jr.  He creates work with technology along with more traditional materials.  In his piece “Data Cube” (2006, gouache, colored pencil, graphite) he captured the dynamics of software screen work with rich colors and complex designs. His work explores different possibilities of opposing ideas (creation and destruction, nature…

Cory Arcangel is a New Media artist that uses old video game cartridges and modifies them to play different aspects of the actual game play. Cory not only modifies these games, but also makes it possible for people to play them themselves through . An example of his work was titles Totally Fucked, which was…

Final version of the code: // —————————————————————————// Example NewPing library sketch that does a ping about 20 times per second.// —————————————————————————#include <Servo.h>#include <NewPing.h> NewPing sonar1(12, 10, 200); // Sensor 1: trigger pin, echo pin, maximum distance in cm//NewPing sonar2(7, 6, 200); // Sensor 2: same stuff const int numReadings = 18;int fr_readings[numReadings];      // the readings…

In My Corner At the Maker Faire In My Corner is a project that I made for the class. The major components consist of a wooden frame, 4 servo motors, 2 Arduinos, a microphone, a roll of paper, an audio interface to amplify the microphone, an RC motor to control the roll of paper, a…

Spirobot Art 150 Final Project 2014 Nestor (Felix) Sotres Description:  Spirobot draws 3 different patterns which are generated randomly. 1st patter is more of a larger square, 2nd pattern is a smaller triangular pattern, 3rd pattern is a completely random series of commands repeated over and over. It can also switch colors while its drawing…

The final project https://www.dropbox.com/s/dy0o84ua06el9lv/Sequence%2001.mpeg The image uploaded to processing to be drawn by the drawing machine. First the Arduino code needs to be used:( can also be found under Examples in Arduino library) /*  * Firmata is a generic protocol for communicating with microcontrollers  * from software on a host computer. It is intended to…

I titled my final project “The Eager Succulents” and its objective is to animate something that is not capable of speaking to crave human attention. The ultrasonic sensor picks up how close the person is making the lights within the plant light up and the sound picks up voice so the plants could “talk” back….