Media Arts and Technology

The Vortex Room This instillation will harness the properties of the Vortex Gun, which shoot elecrtically charged rings of gas, to manipulate smoke particles in such a way as to create a "spectacular" aesthetic visual. The gas rings become ionized causing the rings that are emitted to have a substan...

-Vortex Room Installation- I want to design an interactive installation that is "spectacular" in its aesthetic appeal. The primary technology I will use are vortex guns, technology capable of shooting out rings of electrically charged gas rings at 90mph, which force smoke and other particles in the ...

1) Hydrophones --- http://whalesandmarinefauna.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/sensor_hand_m3.jpg This is a new technology designed and inspired by the inner ears of orca whales. These advanced hydrophones allow detection from a wide spectrum of underwater sounds, from the weakest ones to those 100 mill...

Week - 7 - 1. Scott Sona Snibbe - "MotionPhone" ---- http://www.snibbe.com/ Snibbe's project "MotionPhone" uses touch screen hand motion and turns those motions into abstract animations. In the clip linked it illustrates how a motion is turned into shapes and then "looped" meaning a motion from left...

Week - 6 - Belief in the Image In Legrady's article, "Image, Language, and Belief in Synthesis," he delves into the crux of digital images and digital processing. That is, because of advancements in photography, specifically related to computer technology the "image" is not as "trusting" in its depi...

--- Classification Project --- Classifications: 1. "Sports/Statues" -- At a first run through of the ten images, immediately the viewer sees that all of the pictures in the top row depict an athlete in the middle of playing their sport. In particular each picture is primarily of one singular athlete...

Roland Barthes "Rhetoric of the Image" - Week 3 http://pu.i.wp.pl/k,MTAxMjQyMjgsNjEyODU4,f,Dodge-Challenger_Freedom_print.jpg In Roland Barthes article, "Rhetoric of the Image," he explains the three way in which a viewer breaks down and dechiphers an image's: Linguitic meanings, non-coded and coded...

Chronophotography and Marey - Week 2 After reading "Marey, the analytic, and the digital" by Steve Mamber, I was intersted in his arguement that Marey's experimentaion and development of the chronophotography should not so closely be seen as "pre-cinema" but instead as its own medium. Mamber insists...

-Camera Obscura Project- According to late Renaissance era philosophers and physicists the camera obscura was a device in which light passes through a minuscule aperture (small hole), transporting an inverted ‘image’ of exterior things into a closed and darkened box or chamber, on to a facing screen...