Two main issues I found particularly interesting from the Ippolito video were the way schools handle  information and learning, and the Creative Commons license for source files. The way schools share information and learning is of utmost importance to me in a personal way because I just plain dont have the financial means to go…

Jim Campbell Jim Campbell is a Chicago born San Francisco based artist whose work primarily focuses on LED light installations. Although the reading does not go into much detail about Jim Campbell, what got my attention was that he was one of the few artist to have his work displayed in a museum in a…

Photo credit: Kristin Lucas Barcode Cinema is a collaboration between Kristin Lucas and Lee Montgomery that appeared at Conflux Festival New York in 2010. It involved stickers featuring QR codes within a movie screen that were placed throughout the festival locations. By scanning the codes with smartphones, viewers gained access to video of geotagged images…

As I was reading the text I noticed mention of a lot of interactive or game related works.  These artists appealed to me especially because I spend most of my free time playing video games.  The first artist I picked was Cory Arcangel.  The reading mentions his work Super Mario Clouds, which is a Super…

Roy Lichtenstein The first artist I found that was very interesting to me, was Roy Lichtenstein. He was a pop artist during 60’s and 70’s. He is very unique in his style and work. Because he worked in a same area in which I would like to work, I was drawn to his art once…

Reading 1: Natalie Bookchin – Mass Ornament Mass Ornament is a collection of YouTube videos of people dancing in their homes that are synchronized to different pieces of music. From Natalie Bookchin’s site, “In his essay Mass Ornament (1927(, Zigfried Kracauer argued that the synchronized movements of chorus line dancers reflected the logic of the…

The reading briefly mentioned an artist who was a Net Art pioneer named Olia Lialina. She is from Moscow and makes net art as well as videos. One of my favorite pieces of hers is In Memory of Chuck Poynter.  In Memory of Chuck Poynter, 2011 I couldn’t get the actual piece into this post because…

One interesting artist form “Art in the age of distribution” was Cory Arcangel. Cory manipulated technology in order to create unique works of art. While reading the article it instanty grabbed my attention when it mentioned Cory’s “Super Mario Clouds” project. Being a gamer myself, who grew up playing Super Mario, I had to find…

HOME SWEET HOME Interactive Shadow box For my final project, I was interested in incorporating sounds and LEDS into a cool shadow box scenery. My first proposal was centered around a cricket and its sound effects.Also, moving grass with motors ( that was deemed too noisy)  and an LED moon. After much discussion with the class,…

My final project was a waterfall using blue LED’s. The lights respond to a ping sensor in the front. When the sensor has something in front of it the lights will turn off and stay off until the object is moved. The sensor is set to change the lights when something is less than 46cm…

   The idea was to make a robot helmet after Joshua stated that all my projects had a similair cyborg aesthetic. The helmet was always meant to have two components. One was a voice changer of some kind and the other was a device that would light up LED’s when it “hears” sound. Problem was…