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…

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program Osman Khan and Daniel SauterJanuary 2003 As the television is flickering a computer program is creating pixels of each frame. The light from the screen glows onto the wall and the sound of the flickering bounces off the walls. The line shown in the image above are the pixels…

CLOUD by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett I refuse to gloss over my thoughts and I will not hide the idea that I struggled to connect with the reading. Art to me exist in a specific realm of my existence as raw expression of  “essence” or “being”, That which cannot be expressed in any…

Very Nervous System  When approaching the reading, I first took the liberty of writing down the artworks and artists listed, before reading the article.  Once I had absorbed the information on Interactive Art, I went back and started to look at the examples that had been listed.  I was very intrigued with visually interactive pieces…

While reading “NeMe: Trouble at the Interface 2.0” by Erkki Huhtamo, I was reminded of a sort of exhibit/attraction I’ve been to up in Spring Green, Wisconsin called The House on the Rock. It’s a very large place that is essentially just a bunch of really cool artwork and artifacts that a very eccentric man…

Here are instructions on how to make a box that lights up on the inside, but only when opened. First, gather these materials: 1 Box Any number of led lights of chosen colors [In the end, I will use 2 blue and 2 red but I started with 4 red] Copper tape Wires Soldering supplies…

Creative Switch Project: Fashion Meets Tech  By: Dorinda Barlow &Wasan Hayajneh  Learn how to step by step on how to integrate LED lights onto a jacket through a circuit current. Materials Needed  *Fabric (Of your choice, possibly a thick fabric)  Thread  Scissors Model  LED Lights (2) or more Conductive Tape Wire (Any wire that is tested to be…

How to make screws power an LED light. Step 1: First I drilled holes to ensure that all 3 of the screws would meet in the middle of the piece of wood. I made sure that the 2 screws located on the side were not touching in the middle to ensure that the top screw…