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Mating Drawings
In the early spring I went to go see Casey Reas speak about his work He referenced Sol LeWitt’s instruction based art works as a source for his work. LeWitt would send parameters and instructions to galleries to create the art work themselves.In this method he would communicate complex drawings through precise instructions such as [...]
Remmbr
There are places in our life that we all want to remember, whether it’s the spot we met our first love, the park we played in as children, or that great bottle of wine you had last week at that restaurant. Remmbr is a service based on the idea that remembering should be easy. [...]
Claptime
Claptime is a piece produced for the 2008 Big Screens show at the IAC building’s 120 foot video wall. Claptime was designed as a system that leveraged the width of the wall to divide the audience into performative groups. Utilizing simple gestures and actions such as clapping, snapping, singing and jumping, Claptime directed [...]
Gus
Gus are windchimes for the urban dweller. City living puts people with different backgrounds, preferences, and schedules within feet of each other. In this sort of environment noise is at an excess and silence at a premium. Traditional windchimes broadcast their sound to all around, and don’t allow a user to opt out of [...]
FlickrText
FlickrText is a text art generation program that processes texts fed to it into diagrammed sentences with images in place of the nouns and the verbs. The images are pulled from Flickr using Flickr’s relevance search method. By replacing some of the text with images, the viewer is left with a residual structure of the [...]
Set in Stone
Set in Stone is a pair of interactive, touch-sensitive, concrete interfaces for transmitting presence across long distances. In today’s world we have many options for communicating with others. Sending an e-mail, making a phone call, or writing a letter all allow full ideas to be sent across to other people. However, there is no way [...]
The New Vote
TheNewVote.com is a location-based SMS polling system and place to post photographic proof of election day votes. The election process should be simpler and more transparent. This website allowed people to declare their voting intent as well as to prove their actual vote on election day. Every voter’s opinion should matter when it comes to [...]