For my project, I am going to revamp the LED Gloves I had previously shown. For this project, I plan on using EL wire instead of the LEDs I had been using. It will eliminate the entire process of using the conductive thread and making the gloves have problems not…

         For my project, I wanted to recreate the movement of a Mimosa Pudica. This plant’s leaves, when touched, close up and eventually reopen.  For my prototype, I want to practice creating the shape of the leaves and flowers in paper first.  By doing this, the aesthetic part of the project will be figured out. To get…

1) What is plausible and what is implausible about the future that Jesse Schell describes and, most importantly, make a clear case for why?  I think it is possible that the eye sensors for objects, such as the idea of sensors being in kindles and watching how we read, is very plausible. I think it…

1) What is plausible and what is implausible about the future that Jesse Schell describes and, most importantly, make a clear case for why? I think the future Jesse Schell describes of technology having an increasing and over-reaching presence in people’s lives is very possible and is already occurring to an extent. Each week on…

REVEAL “Slow design reveals experiences in everyday life that are often missed or forgotten, including the materials and processes that can be easily overlooked in an artifact’s existence or creation.” Boundary functions illuminates the boundaries, the barriers that are constantly placed between human beings by structure both created by human beings and that exist from…

Finish watching the Ippolito video and discuss at least 2 concepts or issues raised in his lecture that intrigued you and why. How do they effect you directly? Have these issues been resolved since the time of the lecture (2004)? I thought the Pool project was a fascinating project that used collaborative methods and a democratic merit…

My group of choice to present is ART+COM, a German based new media collaboration founded in 1988. They collaborate with other artists, designers, engineers, and scientists alike. The main focus is on communicating artistic, social, or historical ideas using effective modern technology. They have installations for public and private institutions alike, such as museums or…

Janet Cardiff is a Canadian artist who works mainly with sound which includes sound installations. Cardiff commonly works in collaboration with her husband, George Bures Miller. She created what are known as “audio walks” and became internationally recognized for them in 1995. Her and her husband currently work and reside in Berlin. Cardiff’s works have…

“My hovercraft is full of eels” Casey Reas is an artist who is one of the creators of the Processing programming language, along with Ben Fry. Reas’ works explore texts that define processes which is how his work is created. The works themselves have names such as Process X where X is a number. The…

Yuri Suzuki Yuri Suzuki is a Japanese sound artist and electronic musician who designs and creates things that deal primarily with sound and human’s interactions with it. His work spans from  musical instruments to sound installations and is usually well-designed, easily understandable and approachable, even for kids. One of his most recent projects, titled Ototo,…

1. This is a bike generator system that was created by my high school physics teacher  Shane Crone. It basically is a bike that is hooked to a pedal-a-watt system to generate electricity. It can be used to  power classroom projectors and what not. Although he is not really a new media artist, I believe…