Media Arts and Technology

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The goal is to map the real time movement of visitors in a museum, both thermal and non-thermal. This movement will be displayed on an interactive sculpture in the lobby and will change constantly due to the participants.

This is awesome We took to the hills of Wales armed to the teeth with sheep, LEDs and a camera, to create a huge amazing LED display. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw Morgan Rauscher: Facial Recognition Used motion tracking and 30 robot faces to track the view and question the sensation of...

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/object_images/535x535/lp001.jpg Infrared thermography, thermal imaging, and thermal video are examples of infrared imaging science. Thermal imaging cameras detect radiation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 9000–14,000 nanometers o...

In Stephen Mamber's article Marey, the analytic, and the digital, Mamber discusses Etienne-Jules Marey and his contribution to art and science. He describes Marey's obsession with movement. This movement can be seen in all of his work; the horse running, the bird flapping its wings, the woman walkin...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5082/5209459807_32aa0976d7.jpg Timeline by gclassen , on Flickr I'd tried to do something a little different with my classification project. I tried to make a sequence reading from left to right that conveyed a specific message. I tried to find images that were somewh...

Looking at the each person's post, one aspect of the aesthetic primitives that hasn't been mentioned is Motion. Motion is important in images because it represents "life and action." The article focuses on two main ways of expressing motion. The first is the technique of blur. This can be achieved t...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/5081583568_232a7af668.jpg vbvoyeur_400 by gclassen , on Flickr I chose Victor Burgin's "Gratification" as my image for the semiotics project. In this photograph, the viewer is being transported into the photographer's shoes, staring into a neighbor's brightly lit...

Response to the Barthes Article The Barthes Article talks about three types of messages that are present in advertisement images, the first being linguistic. It's usually a text message and blends in with the natural arrangement of lines. The message guides the viewer to understand what the substan...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/5052143542_cf16e814c9.jpg friedlander by gclassen , on Flickr How my eye moved through the image: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/5052184724_6192fc389a.jpg friedlanderanalysis by gclassen , on Flickr Friedlander's composition really guides your eye throughout...