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To Position, Deposition, and Reposition: The Division of Meaning and Power
Here is a PDF of my final paper for Politics of the Gaze, a media theory class at NYU taught by Allen Feldman that I was taking this semester: To Position, Deposition, and Reposition: The Division of Meaning and Power … Continue reading
XBee Basic Chat
I initially had some trouble getting my XBees up and running. The problem started with me accidentally ordering the series 1 XBee instead of the series 2, TWICE. Once from Amazon and then again from Sparkfun because the descriptions were … Continue reading
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Wireless Light Sensor
Getting the Romantic Light Sensor from chapter 3 of Building Wireless Sensor Networks took be an exorbitantly long time. But here it it! The first problem I ran into was that the router XBee COMPLETELY stopped communicating with my computer through the … Continue reading
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NIME Music Wall prototype
This semester at ITP I am really excited to be taking NIME: New Interfaces for Musical Expression. On the first day of class, out professor, Greg Shakar, asked for us to create a musical instrument in one week, and prepare a … Continue reading
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NIME Final Concept – Emotion Machine
Concept Creating a feedback loop between the music, and the response that it elicits in the performer experiencing the music (Cage and Barishnikov) Nature of music; why do people like music to begin with; what does it mean? Emotional relationship … Continue reading
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Imagining Sensitive Buildings – Real Lighting Network System
Below are the slides from my presentation of the concept for the Real Lighting Network System. This was created for the Imagining Sensitive Buildings assignment for the class Sensitive Buildings at ITP. I started off the presentation by talking about … Continue reading
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Nap Feedback Buzzer
For the second assignment for Sensitive Buildings, I worked with Emily Webster. We made a “Nap Feedback Buzzer.” It is composed of two sets of components. 1: One set is made up of an Xbee, Arduino, button, and two LEDS. … Continue reading
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Illumination: real-time generative blackout poetry
Illumination is an interactive art installation created by myself in collaboration with Yonatan Ben-Simhon. It uses light to discover and reveal poetry from within printed texts. What happens The basic set-up of Illumination is a table in a dark space, … Continue reading
Final Project Proposal – Light-up Poetry
For the final project I am collaborating with Yonatan Ben-Simhon. We are creating an interactive art installation inspired by Austin Kleon’s Newspaper Blackout Poems project. The basic set-up is this: Next to a table sits a stack of newspaper and magazine articles. The … Continue reading