Media Arts and Technology

The Haptic Room A small circular room incased in a large, advanced electrostatic haptic electronics array. The user dons a suit that covers the body, which allows for haptic feedback emulating texture, and a helmet with a flexible 3D display that allows for visual emulation of an environment. These ...

The Haptic Room My final project is an extrapolation of existing electrostatic haptic technology. It is a small, circular room 6' in diameter, with a large array of electrostatic electronics installed throughout every surface of the room. The user wears a fully body suit, including a helmet with a f...

1 Downrail: http://www.perspectum.com/downrail/downrail_3.htm like google street view, this project allows the viewer to explore the now largely abandoned railway system of the united states. I found this project interesting in that in predates Google's street view, and the execution is very similar...

The fictitious nature of photography is very interesting. Legrady, in his article, makes the point that because photography appears to do such a good job of capturing reality, it easily tricks viewers into buying into fake and leading photos. Photography is an exercise in ideological construction in...

In regards to how Cohen defines what exactly an image is, the most interesting assertions he makes are found in the "Cognitive Bases for Image Strucutre" section of his paper. He states that image making is mediated by very low level cognitive processes, and that, largely, the sense of meaningfulnes...

proj.png http://i.imgur.com/xeBuT.png Attributes: 1. The five above images are relate to each through the theme of drug abuse. Each image presents different aspects of the abuse of heroin, from the very first stage of production (growing poppies), to needles, to melting down, to over does, and deat...

The most interesting point I took away from the this week's topic was Marey's use of chronophotographs to reveal what is hidden, to draw light to patterns in contrast to using his methods to document the obvious (albeit in a unique way). http://i.imgur.com/XIbAy.jpg This made me immediately think of...

Moving past what has been said here already, I want to talk about some of the controversies (and to a certain extent, conspiracy theories) surrounding the use of the camera obscura. http://i.imgur.com/a6yaX.jpg The english contemporary painter David Hockney has claimed that some of the most respecte...