Media Arts and Technology

Magic Well Overview The installation I’m proposing takes the form of a well in the middle of a gallery room. The participant look the well and sees they’re reflection clearly. As the participant leans in more, their image becomes less clear as another unknown person’s reflection is layered with the...

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"Wishing Well" Installation I want to design an interactive "wishing well" for installation in a gallery. The well would require research of one-way mirror technology, motion sensor technology, and camera projection. The participant will approach the wishing well and look into it to see dark water. ...

1. Drift Bottles http://2006.01sj.org/content/view/347/49/ This project is based on how sailors in the middle ages would put heartfelt messages into bottles in the ocean to be found by someone unknown. A participant speaks into an empty bottle then closes the lid. Then, another participant opens it ...

Harold Cohen attempts to uncover what specific elements create a functioning image. He concludes that an image is an assumption of human will, that images show evidence of cognitive process, images contain a "transactional context" that creates a "meaning-space for the viewer, and that there is a "s...

Classification I began searching for images by Googling random words, looking at magazine photo shoots, searching for images I liked on blogs, forums, and on Pinterest. After dragging them all into a folder, I tried to find common themes, colors, compositions, and other attributes between them. I f...

Advertisement Analysis Daisy_MarcJacobs.jpg mj.jpg The non-coded messages throughout this advertisement support its symbolic messages. Daisy denotes an image with dull colors of a young woman in nature holding an enlarged perfume bottle. First, color is a major sign that helps the viewer transform ...

During lecture on Thursday and while reading about Marey’s experiments with recording motion, I was still confused by the process in which he captured movement. I was especially hung up on how the horse photographs were taken by Muybridge. Therefore, I have researched the process of chronophotograps...

The camera obscura is a relatively basic device, in terms of design, that lead to great innovations. Using basic principles of physics, the camera obscura uses the light it receives to reflect and flip an image of whatever the user directs it in front of. Starting in the sixteenth century, it was us...