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…

http://www.instructables.com/id/Creative-Switch-Faucet-Lamp/ Step 1: Things You Will Need Faucet 6 LED’s 2 #v Button Batteries Electrical Tape Wire Wire Cutter Wire Stripper Solder Solder Iron 2 Potientiometera Possible Supplies Heat Shrink Wax Step 2: Tape Around The Edge of BatteryWith Electrical Tape Also tape the inside of faucet where the battery will sit. Step 3: Solder…

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…

http://www.instructables.com/id/Creative-Switch/ For my creative switch project I created two circuits, each consisting of: piezoelectric disk, darlington transistor, 28ohm resistor and blue LED. I then wired these circuits in parallel. The reasoning for using a piezoelectric disk it that I wanted to create a switch which didn’t require a conventional power source. The piezos themselves create…

    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…