Design for Discomfort Truth or Dare Derivative: "Floating Secret" For our "Design for Discomfort" class, we were tasked with creating a variant on the classic game "Truth or Dare," but modified to provide some kind of message. Tianyi and I created a
Socially Engaged Art Hand-Crank Wifi A project for "Socially Engaged Art and Digital Practice." Our assignment was to create something that addresses the materiality of the internet. We talked a lot in class about the environmental cost of
Physical Computing PComp Final Project Proposal: Yoga and Meditation Timer My final project will be a timer for use with yoga and meditation. This idea springs from a specific problem in my life: I do yin yoga in the evenings before bed, and
Design for Discomfort Reading Response: "Extended-Body: Interview with Stelarc" Stelarc's views on technologically augmenting the body are very interesting, and he challenges some fundamental assumptions that we take for granted. However, I find his ideas to be completely ignorant of social and
Physical Computing PComp Lab: DC Motor Control Goal: Control direction of a DC motor using an H-bridge.Materials: I found a fan in the ITP junk shelf. Unfortunately, all the variable power supplies in the shop were missing cables. So,
Socially Engaged Art The Transmutation of Value Group project for Socially Engaged Art and Digital Practice, Fall 2018. Collaboration with Jason Yung. Performed once with a group of eleven participants, October 30, 2018.Prompt Construct a short proposal for a
Physical Computing PComp Lab: Two-Way Serial Communication In the spirit of the two-way serial lab, I made a p5 sketch that graphs the state of two potentiometers and a button. First, the Arduino keeps trying to send a handshake to
Design for Discomfort Reading Response: Patterns of Transformation Ida Benedetto's Patterns of Transformation: Designing Sex, Death, and Survival in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive set of principles for designing transformative experiences. She writes concisely, but presents more material than can
Physical Computing PComp Midterm For our Halloween-themed Physical Computing midterm, my partner and I built a hand which accepts candy and drops it in a bucket. We used a stronger 5V servo motor than the standard Arduino
Visual Language Business Card Design Assignment: Design a business card for yourself (or for a business you own).FinalDesign ChoicesJust the logo.The typographic logo ".jR" aims to provide a simple, memorable arrangement of my initials. Read "dot-J-R,
Visual Language Winter Show Postcard AssignmentDesign a postcard for the ITP Winter Show. Try to show a "humanistic" view of ITP.Constraints4.25 x 6 inches300 dpiCMYK colorMy PostcardMy concept for humanizing ITP: show humans working. A time-lapse
Visual Language Color Palette I am generally annoyed by "represent yourself as..." assignments. They used to make me very anxious - how do I capture myself authentically? Which things about myself actually define me? At some point
Physical Computing Phys Comp Lab: Metronome For playing around with digital and analog output, I built a metronome with an LED. A servo sweeps the needle back and forth at the set tempo. The LED blinks in sync with
Socially Engaged Art Socially Engaged Art Project Ideas Just for documentation purposes, here are the initial project ideas I had for my "Socially Engaged Art and Digital Practice" class. The prompt was simply to come up with three possibilities for socially
Physical Computing Phys Comp: Observing Interactive Tech We generally don't think of them as one, but subway turnstiles are a piece of interactive technology. Their single interaction, the swipe of a Metrocard or pass, produces physical feedback in the form
Visual Language Airline Ticket Redesign Our week three assignment for "Comm Lab: Visual Language" was to redesign an airline ticket, keeping all of the same graphic and textual elements, with an eye to typography and to information hierarchy.
Socially Engaged Art Online Public Space: Graffiti Wall Our assignment this week for "Socially Engaged Art and Digital Practice" is to create an online public space. It can be any kind of public space, so long as it is theoretically accessible
Physical Computing Phys Comp Week 3: Starting with Arduino In-Class - Analog Input and Output Reading the effects of a potentiometer.Monitoring the potentiometer value (0-1023) as text.Plotting the potentiometer value means I can have fun drawing waves.Then, I experimented
Immersive Listening Twitter Crowd For our second assignment for "Immersive Listening: Designing Sound for VR," we're playing around with the Facebook360 Spatial Workstation plugins for Reaper, placing different sounds in 2-D space around the listener and playing
Physical Computing Phys Comp Week 2: Electronics Basics In-Class I didn't really understand voltage drops across resistors, so I researched that. I looked up various tutorials, but they all focused on how to calculate voltage drop, which didn't really help me
Visual Language Signage Research & Redesign For Comm Lab: Visual Language, I had to find two examples of successful signage and two examples of unsuccessful signage, and correct one of the failures. Let's start with the signs that worked.
Visual Language Design Analysis: Cover of Byung-Chul Han's "The Agony of Eros" Our first exercise for "Comm Lab: Visual Language" is to choose a design example that we like, and analyze it according to the four principles of design (grid system, hierarchy, typefaces, and color)
