Solid Smoke is an interactive installation I’ve built in collaboration with the Pasadena based artist, Dan Goods, of directedplay. The installation has been recently installed in the the Swiss Technorama science museum.
The installation triggers colored patterns projected onto aerogel, a unique low-density material in which the liquid component of the gel has [...]
Saturday I gave a talk on Mediated Presence through Physical Objects in the Dorkbot-socal meetup at Machine Project gallery, LA. I chose to focus mostly on imPulse, the heartbeat sharing devices that Christian and I built and redesigned over the past two years. It is an artistic exploration of intimacy through mediated space, seeking a [...]
Project
Build a multi-touch display for an exhibit piece that tracks people’s finger movements across a surface and translates them into a projected visuals. This project is simpler than your usual multi-touch surfaces, as the projection is not onto the surface, but set towards the exhibit in front of the user. I chose to experiment with [...]
A beautiful project by Jiyeon Song of the Media Design Program, Art Center College of Design.
Check out the video here
I was impressed by its simplicity, yet powerful message. It is a patent pending method, where Jiyeon takes advantage of the changing angle of sunlight to project different messages within the pavilion throughout the day.
In her [...]
Just got back from the Art Center College of Design end of semester show, extremely impressed and inspired. These kids do an amazing job setting up the space, really thinking about the information design and the viewer experience in the space. Much of the work is conceptual (imaginary products or environments). But the effort placed [...]
Today I wrote up a simple Instructable for the students at MDP (Art Center) to use for implementing a surface or object that reacts to touch. Using the Qprox Sensor (QT113) it is possible to make a switch out of essentially any object or surface.
It was nice to see how much smoother and easier it [...]
Students at the Media Design Program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena have been deploying chumbys as probes in people’s homes. Their goal is to collect outcomes and reactions that family members have after spending a week with the devices. Family members are not allowed to change the information displayed on the [...]