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How to make an aquarium out of an old television
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Nov 09
Autonomous Electric Albums Proposal
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Nov 09
Final Project Proposal
Project Title: The Big Apple, Empire, New Yorker..undecided
Being from New York, I feel that many New Yorkers don’t take advantage of the city’s rich culture, and tourists don’t know enough about that culture. I want to create a game where the goal is to become a “real” New Yorker.
Precedent 1: Stack the States
This is an educational game in which you have to answer a series of questions in order to collect each state. You acquire the states one at a time by winning the challenges and eventually acquire the whole U.S.
My game would have a similar concept of acquiring places in Manhattan to eventually build up the whole city.
Precedent 2: Manahatta The Game
This is a location based game developed by PETLab in which you have to go to locations and link them with the history and ecology of that location. This is to educate people about the rich ecology that one was Manahatta, in a fun and interactive way.
If you just want to play the game on your iphone, you basically travel to the locations you have to get to via subway, taxi, walking (however you choose). You actually have to navigate your way there, so if you know the subway to get you there then thats great, if not you have to waste your money on a taxi. This part would be replaced with physically going to the location as I will explain.
I would add another layer to this game, which is location based like Manahatta. Players gain more experience points if they physically go to these locations and then answer the questions about them. The app would have to have GPS tracking and would be able to tell if you arrived at the location.
Basically, players will be competing against other players to see who is the most knowledgable. The missions would teach about the history or current information about the place through answering questions. By completing these missions you acquire points, but traveling to them also brings down your income and your XP. Missions would range from going to the Statue of Liberty, to the MET, to the Theatre District, the WTC site, Central Park, Empire State Building, etc.
Ex: If you got to the Met, it might ask which artist you would find there (and then give you choices). If you go to the Theatre District, what is the longest running Broadway show?
This is a very big project to take on which I realize. I have to do a lot of background research first before developing the game, but I think for this project I can get most of the research done and visualizations of how the game will look and function.
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Nov 09
PROPOSAL FOR FINAL- Americana
PROJECT PROPOSAL
“Americana”: is web-based/web app interactive educational tool or can also be used as a reference site. Will have a game option of “role-play” for younger audience.
Problem to be addressed: American’s lack of interest and knowledge of their own history.
Possible Solutions: use the popularity and availability of home computers, websites activity and computer games.
Software/Hardware: Computer. API, JQuery, JavaScript, Wikipedia, Open GL.
Age demographic: 10 years old and up
Why is learning history important:
– A sense of pride and identity.
– History teaches cause and effect.
– Warns us to learn from past mistakes.
– Leads us to build a better future
Inspiration:
– Last of the Mohican by James Finimore Cooper
– American Cowboy Folklore
– Film: Glory
The story is based on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first formal unit of the US Army to be made up entirely of African American men, as told from the point of view of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, its commanding officer during the American Civil War. (via Wikipedia)
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Nov 09
Final Project write up
My project is a three channel interactive video installation.
I am interested in the cyclical nature of violence. I am approaching this exploration through a tight lens. The lens of Franz Fanon, and particularly I’ll be pointing to his text The Wretched of the Earth. However it goes a bit deeper then that. The task of addressing something so huge is better treated at the individual level. Once the audience is invested the unique or sometimes idiosyncratic aura that the artist has created is allowed to slowly echo out so that it gets bigger and bigger, translating into a collective experience.
The videos will be projected on three pieces of plexiglass arranged in a row. The two projections surrounding the middle screen will play the same footage. The center piece of this footage will be images from vietnam. As well most of the footage on these screens will be archival material, depicting certain glimpses of violence. The first projection will be played forward and the third project(on the other side of the middle screen) will be played backwards. This again represents the cyclical nature of violence that I am addressing.
These two projections set the tone–they create the context with which to read this work in its entirety.
The middle projection is the video that has interaction. This projection starts with just a man looking out at the audience. As soon as you enter his line of sight (the distance which is set via opencv: face detection) he begins to address you.
He rants, he questions you sternly, and then tries to coerce you to twist a nob that is integrated into a pedestal. The nob is a potentiometer. As the viewer twists the nob, he sort of reenacts the essence of the Milgram experiment.
I will attempt to weave the webs of violence from personal histories outward to embrace collective histories..
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Nov 08
Final Project Proposal
PDF Presentation: Fair Art Connect:
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Nov 08
Instruction Sets Final
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Final Presentaion without videos
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