Light and Interactivity Lighting Moment #1 The nightstand next to my bed, 11:45 PM. An island of light in a dark room.Light source: A "warm white" (2750-2900 K) "40 watt replacement" (390-420 lumens) LED lamp in a
Homemade Hardware Homemade Hardware Final - Bill of Materials Project DescriptionMy final will be a small art piece with an 8 character LCD. The LCD I will be using is this one by Newhaven Display International. It follows the HD44780 protocol, which
Homemade Hardware Homemade Hardware Week 3: Marquee Letter My board design files are on Google Drive. Everything went very smoothly with the fabrication on this. I was very confused for a while because my code seemed to be working, but the
Sound in Space Sound in Space: Quad Piece For my sound in space quadphonic assignment, I mostly took the opportunity to experiment with techniques that I hope to use in my final. I am in another class, Choreographic Interventions, which combines
Homemade Hardware Homemade Hardware Week 2: Eagle Board Designs My board design files are up on Google Drive.ATTiny85 JigThis one was pretty straightforward. Having the components in place ahead of time made things easier, although also I had less freedom -
Homemade Hardware Homemade Hardware: ATTiny Sketch Our assignment for week 1 were to (1) solder an ATTiny programming jig, and (2) use it to program an ATTiny85 to do something on a breadboard.Programming JigMaking the programming jig was
Sound in Space Sound in Space: Stereo Piece For my stereo assignment for "Sound in Space," I continued to experiment with transmission of sound through the body. I also wanted to add a performance component and to continue exploring what I
Rest of You Rest of You Final: tCDS For my final project for Rest of You, I was crazy enough to try transcranial direct-current stimulation, aka tCDS. tCDS involves running a small electrical current, generally under 2 milliamps, between two electrodes
Hand-Holding Group Performance This project builds on my solo hand-holding experiment in Washington Square Park. For our "Recurring Concepts in Art" class, we were tasked with re-creating a previous art piece in a different way. I
Rest of You Talking to the Elephant: Pennebaker Journaling For "talking to the elephant" (the subconscious) for my Rest of You class, I had originally intended to continue my work with the MyoWare EMG and build a wearable system that would remind
Sound in Space Sound in Space: Mono Piece I want to experiment with sound transmitted through the body itself, so for my mono piece, I used a bone conductive tranducer. I bought this one from Adafruit and wired it up to
Rest of You Rest of You EMG Project: Trial Data Collection I've been really interested in recent months in developing more awareness of my own body. So far I've explored this through analog practices, including mindfulness exercises and dance. For my class "Rest of
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
