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Sound in Space

Sound in Space: Rubric

This semester, I am concentrating in various ways on learning about and exploring space, movement, and the body. Space and the body are intimately connected - we perceive and interact with space via

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Rest of You

E-Unconscious: Song Lyrics

For "Rest of You," we were assigned to do text analysis on some part of our digital footprint. I thought that the music I listen to could provide some very revealing data. The

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Rest of You

Rest of Me: The Unconscious, Memes, and the Body

Very few of the ideas introduced in the first class of "Rest of You" were entirely new to me. I used to have an intellectual interest in neuroscience, and read a lot about

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Design for Discomfort

Untitled Performance (Hand-Holding)

For my "Design for Discomfort" class, we were challenged to create a durational performance. I later refined my performance into my final project for the class.My performance was inspired by Marina Abramovic's

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Design for Discomfort

Memorial

For my Design for Discomfort class, we were challenged to create a memorial, preferably to "an issue we believe is overlooked." I'm opposed to circumcision, as I consider it to be a form

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11 & 1/4 inch by 7 inch LED-backlit LCD Display, 1280 by 800 pixel Resolution

A preview of the project so far.We live our lives in front of computer and cell phone screens, but we do not look at these displays. We look through them, seeing only

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Design for Discomfort

Reading Response: "Real Violence"

The sacred is not the realm of the highest, best things - it is the realm of that which is unfathomable

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Design for Discomfort

Reading Response: "Sam Durant Doesn't Need Defending"

This is a response to "Same Durant Doesn't Need Defending" by Jillian Steinhauer.Those comparing the Dakota Nation's choice to destroy "Scaffold" to a censorship of all of Durant's work about non-whites admittedly

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Design for Discomfort

Reading Response: "The Limits of Virtual Reality"

I was really happy to see a reading discussing the Machine to be Another, as I had learned of the Machine a long time ago and been very fascinated by the project and

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Visual Language

Expressive Text

For "Comm Lab: Visual Language."

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