So far, I’ve mostly nailed down what I want the general appearance / behavior of my project to be like. I decided to move away from a “fragile” object (for the sake of construction and re-using material) to a “precarious” one, maybe. It’ll be triggered by light, and the general aesthetic will be more lamp(?)-based,…

So far, I was able to get the Servo and the photo resistor to work cooperatively.  Before I started on this project, I thought that I would have to jump through various hoops just to get half way through.  Fortunately, the process was not very painful at all.  It actually only took half an hour…

I’ve had a change of heart about the design of my final project. I’m now going with a variation of my original idea, and I’m sorry to report that the shoe-synth is no longer going to be the end result of my efforts. I am now making a self-contained, granular synth with amplifier circuit and…

I attended the first day of the Flourish! Conference. There were a couple speakers but the presentation that Ruth Suehle was the most interesting and informative to me. Ruth Suehle works for Red Hat, which is an “open source” company. Open sourcing is a philosophy that promotes the free redistribution and access to an end…

We have all our materials including the dc motor pump, plastic tubing, and tip120 resistor. However, we havent got our circuit to work because there has been some confusion as to where to connect the 5v pin to. We are still working on making our pump work and after that is accomplished we can work…

Ruth Suehle’s presentation (“How ‘Open Source’ Defines a Culture”) explored how “open source” applies to topics such as transparency in government, accessible education, data sharing, and copyright law. Although the term originated with software, the concept more generally refers to sharing information and innovations for other people to adapt and improve. Suehle described this concept…

    My drawing machine consists of a remote controlled car, a constructed wooden holder for two markers, and a potentiometer switch. By soldering connections to the switches on the back of the chip in the remote control, I was able to program movements for the car. I had some issues in the beginning because…

            Though his work Casey Rea’s has explored the idea of letting go of order and structure with the use of “organic algorithms” and pushes the effect of randomness.  He touches on the fact that the early artist society and they’re work came from a time where art was strict and…

Hey everyone! I was checking into that book Casey Reas collaborated on, and I found a complete eBook of it on an MIT webpage. Just thought I’d share. 🙂 http://trope-tank.mit.edu/10_PRINT_121114.pdf Best, Brian VK

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Casey Reas begins his talk by stating that it has always been an artist’s job to maintain order. Artists are the ones who have created order and organization and provided people with an image that allows others to visuals abstract ideas. Reas then introduces the concept of bringing chaos into…

After watching the video all i can think is about how the guy has code that does random things and yet all i can think about is how this can be validated at all. If my family saw this my brother and father would both say that Casey Rea should be applying this technology for…

In his presentation Chance Operations, Casey Reas, delves into the new media art of software-generated artwork. As someone relatively unfamiliar with the field of artistic work I found his presentation to be not only informative but very enlightening. Throughout the presentation he established the history and progression of his artwork, also incorporating the work of…