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…

1. Rainbow Plane 002 by James Bridle Rainbow Plane is a 1:1 scale outline of an aircraft as it’s seen by satellite imagery. Instead of simply taking a photograph, the satellites record different bands of electromagnetic radiation which doesn’t always match up, which produces a rainbow effect in fast-moving objects, like planes. The plane which the…

Funky Bones  Near the Indianapolis Museum of Art lies a public artwork that consists of twenty-two white and black benches in the shape of bones. These benches are made mostly of fiberglass, but also consist of plywood and concrete. The bones are laid out in a skeleton shape. The artwork was done by Atelier Van Lieshout,…

Keep Working by Bean Chon is an online, interactive music video that has a fun yet depressing feel to it. Playing as a Minecraft-esque character, your goal is to keep up with constant advertisements and chase success in a monotonous, consumerist way. This game was fun for me to play, partly because it felt ridiculous, and…

The first topic that made me think of today is copyright. John mentioned the current (2004) climate of copyright issues, and some are far off yet some remain true today. 11 years ago, media piracy was relatively new topic in terms of the internet. P2P software like Limewire dominated the scene, and millions of files…