Network music Documentation

All source code is available at https://github.com/jburnitz/Network-Music Further code documentation http://people.uic.edu/~jburni2/projects/networkmusic/html The qt project (to link against and compile with) http://www.qt.io/ libPcap http://www.tcpdump.org/ I used GCC for compiling (most C++ compilers should work) https://gcc.gnu.org/

Documentation for Light Up Headband

Drew’s Documentation This is some of the process of my creating my headband. My goal is to make the headband light up when you touch different points on it. For instance, when I touch the headband sensor next to my temples, I want it to turn blue to represent a calm feeling. Right in front…

EL Wire Gloves Documentation & Arduino Code

Here is the glove from the beginning. I bought two pairs of the long and stretchy white bridal gloves from Davids Bridal because I wanted them to be extra long to be able to make a pocket for the device at the end. For each glove, I sewed a number onto the glove where the…

[Updated for final] Prototyped Project: Virtual Reality Application

**[Update for 4/16]** (For simplicity, I combined my protoype project/ final project proposal into one post) For my final project, I have changed a key component- Instead of using the rear camera on the phone for an augmented experience, I will be creating virtual rooms/spaces in the Unity engine. This paradigm shift, I think, will…

Art Against Information: Reaction

Hearing about the two works such as The Dumpster and We Feel Fine was very interesting. They take the feelings that you are having and posting about online and generating them into an artwork. Its pretty cool to think that the online community could completely alter an artwork, just based on their feelings and what they…

Art Against Information response

In the artworks mentioned in the article data, often times unorganized, meaningless, or unknown to the viewer is the raw material of which they are made. Lev Manovich is quoted as saying “By allowing us to map anything into anything else … computer media simultaneously makes all these choices appear arbitrary – unless the artist…

Artist Presentation One Paragraph + Photo; Matthew Balzekas

Scott Snibbe Scott Snibbe is one of the leading innovators, inventors, and contributors to the new media arts having been imbedded in the field since the 1990’s. His work with interactive projectors, computer software, and instillation art has led to an extremely generative career within the arts and sciences. He has not only been recognized…

Project Ideas; Matthew Balzekas

Matthew Balzekas NEW MEDIA PROJECT CONCEPTS; All ideas are for the beginning of the final project. Sculpture that is reactionary to volume levels and that incorporates large and small LEDS attached to it that exceeds at least two feet. In this project I would like to push my mechanical construction skills more than my programming…

LED Gloves – Revamped

          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…

Mimosa Pudica Recreation

         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…

Jesse Schell and Living Skins

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…

Lifelogging and Living Buildings response

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…