Creative Switch By: Saniya Ahmed These are instruction on how to make light-up flowers. This makes a great design piece for your home. Things you need: 2 2.6v LED lights Battery pack for 2 AA batteries with attached +/- wires 2 AA batteries 2 Artificial flowers Wire Electric Tape One metal earring with metal backing…
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Creative Switch – Model Guitar: Tani Friese Have you ever been rockin’ out on your guitar and thought, “Damn, I wish these strings would light up,”? Well, now they can! In this descriptive post, I will present a makeshift guitar whose “strings” light up when strummed. By looking at this completed model, you can see…
Light Up Mannequin Head
Creator: Ally Gawrys September 14, 2016 Creative Switch: Light Up Mannequin Head Create a mannequin head whose eyes and necklace charm light up when necklace is put on. The circuit works with two separate parts when the necklace is to touched copper tape in the lower neck of the mannequin, all LEDs will light up. …
Creative Switch: Light Up Drawing Tool
Aluminum foil is wrapped around a lightweight wooden panel which rests on a stand made from aluminum coil. When not in use, the three LEDs on the right side of the drawing panel are off. The pencil shown is connected to a 9v battery on the back of the panel. Because the graphite inside the…
Creative Switch Project LED backpack Today I will be showing you how I added LEDs to the pocket of my Herschel backpack, and used the magnetic snaps as the switch to light them up. Not only does this light you up as a pedestrian and make you more visible at night, but it also allows…
Creative Switch Project: Bright Belt
Creative Switch Project: The Bright Belt Created by Peter Rattin In today’s society it appears we are getting closer and closer to the futuristic clothing we’ve seen in movies like Back-to-the-Future and shows like the Jetsons. We’ve seen shoes, dresses, coats and other clothing covered in lights in hopes of becoming the next most talked…
Creative Switch: Meloncholy
Creative Switch: Meloncholy By: Cori Steinberg Have you ever felt like the challenge of being creative is weighing down on your chest? Not feeling the support you need? Lacking a bright idea? Happy days are to come with this LED light up nipple bra. DI-Why not I say. Uses include: Nighttime bike riding, interpretive dance,…
Creative Switch Project By: Eunice Melara & Zaynab
Creative Switch Project By: Eunice Melara, Zaynab Almoujahed In this DIY, we will demonstrate to you how to build a Dali-inspired clock, that will not tell you the present time but will light up every time 15 seconds are gone from your short, fleeting life! Shall we get started? What you will need: 1 piece…
New Media: Trouble at the Interface 2.0
This article talks about the evolution of Interactive Art and its history. Firstly, a comparison was made between how interactive art has changed and evolved especially from it’s origination in the 60’s and the end product of being changed through time and technology, to then shift into what it became in the 90’s. Although many…
Art in the Age of Digital Distribution
One artist from the Reading whose work was greatly impressive to me is Keith Obadike. Keith is an American born Nigerian artist whose work is immensely influenced by Blackness and its many great attributes. Keith’s most famous art work, so to speak, is his ‘Blackness for Sale’ intervention piece where he essentially puts his blackness…
NeMe: Trouble at the Interface 2.0 The article describes the history of interactive art and how it has involved lately. Interactive art, also known as “hands-on” because it allows the user to feel like they are involved in whatever they are doing. Interactive Art was first introduced in 1989, by the American artist Lynn Horseman…
New Media Arts Week 2 reading
This reading was incredibly interesting. I found it interesting because it discussed the evolution of the definition of “interactive art.” The fact that physical and/or visual communication between a spectator and the art is no longer very much considered ‘interactive art’ is astonishing to me. The communication between user and piece is a key part…