Tag: technology
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Are All Images now Poor Images?
Response to Poor Image This incredible article written by Hito Steyerl in 2009 analyzed the material conditions of the poor digitized image to a tee. The analysis is so on point that I feel this piece read the trend of corporate media to invest in profiting off of the digital ecosystem. “Digital communication has also…
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APM Week 2: Generative Design
In Class Documentation Phone footage from Class OBS Documentation of Network TouchDesigner ZIP File Approaching Generative Design The effect from this book I would choose to model in TouchDesigner is: Typography, P_3_1_3_01 If I were to do it, I might twist it to show different messages as people put their hands in different places/gestures with…
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My Ode To Cubism with MediaPipe
I think I may have misunderstood the assignment, as I did my own custom projection piece. No matter, here’s how it turned out. My Projection Disclaimer: I had to use two separate takes and put them together due to space being small, so it’s not the most accurate representation. But it is all real time!…
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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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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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Hand Crank Projector
Concept v. Reality Pictured above are: 1.) our inspiration for our hand-cranked projector, an early 20th century camera that required more physical energy to operate; 2.) our loose design for our projector with electronics encased in a clear acrylic box powered by a hand crank, shooting focused light at a caustic lens, casting an image.…
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Kinetic Energy Project Update
This is more of an informal timeline of what Surya and I worked on this past week. Saturday, 2/8/2025 Surya and I discussed what the fabrication of our project would entail. We designed roughly what the projector would look like so that we could list the components we needed and what needed the most immediate…
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Week 1, Syllabus Review
Reviewing the syllabus for Energy fascinated me greatly as the assigned readings about the current administration’s gutting of clean energy dismayed me. Holding both these feelings together seems like an overall positive for this course as I feel better prepared to prepare my community for increasing energy-related challenges. The syllabus sparked those feelings and also…
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Listening and Recording with P5.js
As part of our eventual Final Project for ICM and Physical Computing, Trusha and I decided to use this ICM Homework to test how well P5.js can listen and record conversation. We want to do this for our larger goal of using technology to help people remember interactions and make note-taking social interactions seamless and…
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Digital Playthings: AI Chatbots, Dating, and Who is Playing Who
Prompt: These days, AI’s increasing prevalence on the internet makes it more difficult to find any novel use of it. If there is a novel use, all the massive tech companies swoop on it and either replicate it to the nth degree or wall it off for their own private, opaque uses. A lot of…
Ryan Rotella 