Thesis Week 01: List of past projects (research)
I. Camille Utterback
Potent Objects is a series of interactive objects that questions simplistic tropes of interaction while referencing the deeper emotional states implied by the physical grammar of interactivity. The objects explore our social anxiety about machines that can feel or emote, and our complex feelings about interacting with these machines. Are our machines becoming more like us as they learn to sense more about our actions, or are we becoming more like them as we tailor our actions to their limited sensing abilities?
II. xBlocks
xBlocks is a convergence between video games & sculpture — liberating play from the screen. It is a mixed reality installation inspired by traditional platform games of the late 1980s such as Super Mario Brothers or Pitfall.
III. Bridget Riley
“Blaze 1”
“High Sky 2”
IV. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Under Scan is a large-scale video art installation for public space. In the piece, passers-by are detected by a computer tracking system that activates video-portraits projected within their shadow on the ground. The piece is intended as a public takeover of their city, linking high technology with strategies of self-representation, connective engagement and urban entitlement.
V. Tom Friedman
“Open Black Box”
VI. Sachiko Kodama + Minako Takeno
Modeling physical material more freely and making it move more flexibly is a dream long sought after by human beings, and many artists have created surreal illusions in pictures or moving images. But those were imaginary. Can we obtain a real object that transforms as we designed it? <Protrude, Flow>is an interactive installation which expresses the dynamics of fluid motion of physical material, the dynamics of organic, wild shapes and movements of liquid by means of digital computer control.
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VII. Pablo Valbuena
This project is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation.
VIII. Tony Oursler
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“Caricature”, 2002. Plastic, paint, video projector, DVD-player, performance by Constance DeJong.
IX. PFFR
[youtube ZTrU-Ad5W7M]
“japoney appoe”
X. NO-CARRIER
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XI. The Bacterial Orchestra
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Bacterial Orchestra (2006) is a self-organizing evolutionary musical organism. The installation consists of several audio cells. Every cell listens to its surroundings and picks up sounds, trying to play together in a musical way. The musical material comes from the background noise, people talking or sounds played by other cells…the complexity of the generated sound doesn’t come from the mechanism of every single cell, but from their interactions…every cell has a unique DNA. Only the ones that are musical fit enough survives. If the surroundings doesn’t meet up to its conditions.. the cell dies and is reborn with a new set of DNA. The result is a musical organism adapting to its environment, growing and evolving with neighbouring cells and spectators.
XII. Andean textile color patterns
