Author: Ryan Rotella
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Trapped in Fragments
project code demo Each of us unfortunately is a product of our time. We all now live in a time of fragmentation. As Pinker notes, language itself is a marvelous intricate discrete combinatory system of words and logic that allows us to connect with one another, the construction of language is not in a vacuum.…
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Pre-Thesis: Best Foot Forward
Prompt: Progress update 1: Inquiry space + inspiration repository. What is an Inquiry Space? An inquiry space is essentially my creative research territory—a visual map of the fields, themes, media, and techniques that spark my curiosity and will drive me toward my thesis. Rather than diving randomly into an overwhelming amount of research, mapping my…
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Becoming a Football Player (again)
For this project of exploring masculine movements in American Football, I will be one of the characters in this project. There will be 3 main characters. One, I will play a football player, stepping back into a role that I played 14-15 years ago in high school. Two, there will be another player who is…
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A Symphony of Guessing
coding project link From the prompt, the question that stood out to me the most was: “What do [neural networks] offer as media for our internal life?” Currently, my relationship for Large Language Models is one of pure function and text, not media or art. I ask Claude to help with my code. The model…
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Wading
code project link I think in jumbles. Jumbles of words, jumbles of half-formed images, a vague sense of some feeling clambering its way to get out. I find myself floating in thought. Waves of priorities come to me: food (planning the day around meals), drink, obligations (“what do i have to get done today”), feelings…
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Interactive Projection: Assignment #1
For the first assignment in my Projection Mapping class, I had to make a projection installation with a white box (or boxes) with one projector. The projection needed to cover Three Sides (Top and Two Sides), according to my Professor, Motomichi. I knew for future assignments and projections works I wanted to incorporate real-time visuals…
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Project: Masculine Movements in American Football
Concept With the help of my group (Michael, Galt, and Summer), I want to explore the emotional and cultural relationship between the movements of male athletes on the American football field, how this creates emotional bonds between competitors as well as spectators. Inspiration This concept of exploring masculine movements in American football emerged from my…
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Solar SatTrack: Energy/Surveillance Final
Group Concept We want to construct an antenna that is powered by a Voltaic battery that recharges with solar energy. With this solar-powered antenna, we want to capture radio signals using a Raspberry Pi and Software Defined Radio (SDR) accessories/software and transmit them to a website we will design with art to visualize what is…
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Surveilling the Blockchain
The two readings on how AdTech, private data selling, and the government using these to leverage an unprecedented amount of surveillance unsettled me. I knew things were bad, but that really drilled down a visceral sense of where we’re at in the surveillance game right now. I may be a drop in the ocean but…
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Solar Radio check-in
Accomplished this past week Implemented USB-C circuit that can read voltage level of Voltaic battery Discovered issue with Arduino timing out was not battery related but meant that we needed to pay $7 for Shiftr Linked Google Drive to Raspberry Pi via Google Cloud Console and Pi CLI –checked out a Pi from the shop…
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