All blogs from ITP classes I took in Spring 2026
Response to The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin’s classic 1935 essay still has more meaningful things to say about art, politics, and modes of production than most of our discourse today. I felt this incongruity between past and current thought most in his passages on the use of distraction in filmmaking. Benjamin writes, “A man who concentrates before a work of…
Thesis update 1
For this first round of building my thesis, I focused on how game-like my UI should be for my 3D social media site. Modern 2D web interfaces have strict rules around spacing and alignment, but having a 3D site means having to fuse those rules with how people usually navigate 3D worlds: video games. From…
Week 3: World-Building
Tutorial: Spirograph by Okamirufu Vizualizer I followed this tutorial by Okamirufu Vizualizer because I really love this surreal geometry that can also contain recognizable spiritual symbols. I want my world to defamiliarize people from their immediate surroundings and call into question all the invisible forces at play that are affecting our tangible world. My Documentation…
Ryan Rotella 