Harmonic Spiral

For this assignment I worked with Max Horwich to combine his knowledge of Tone.js, my knowledge of three.js and both out musical ideas. Following the traditional spiral representation of pitch, we created a 7-note spiral (in C major) that spans across 4 octaves. Users can create patterns by selecting the notes, which are played by…

Education and building foundations for building a castle

I don’t think of #CSforAll as an economical construct, I think of it as a diversity experiment. I think of it as expanding the use of technology to uses no one would have ever thought, because they would not be profitable, because they would not make clear sense, but only because they are art or…

Setting-up the lab and our brains

We will start working with the Motion Capture equipment on the Black Box Theater, but first we need to learn how to use and get ideas on what we want to do.

Asteroid sonification

Sonification of a data set of discovered asteroids and comets that transit near Earth. Project done in collaboration with Camilla Padgitt-Coles and Katya Rozanova. Failed experiments (for now) Our first attempt was to use The Beatle’s song Norwegian Wood to make a sentiment analysis of the comments on one of ots YouTube videos. We extracted…

Installation Proposal: “m e e t _”

“m e e t _” is a physical installation piece that provokes the crossing of two gazes of strangers in mid-air in an immersive and infinite space. Collaboration and Idea “m e e t _ ” is a collaboration between Roland Arnoldt and Nicolás Escarpentier. After a deep cross analysis of our past works, we…

everyday_windows

Final project for Physical Computing & ICM – ITP Fall 2017. Ilana Bonder & Nicolás Peña-Escarpentier Github repository | Link (will work on making a full web-only version soon) Sexism, harassment, abuse… They all have been historically regarded as personal issues, relegating them from the public discussion, and diverting attention of their status as sociopolitical…

extra

Extra is an interactive conceptual exhibition piece. It combines a newspaper with sensors and projection mapping of news media to generate a reflection about media bombardment and the role of information.

Dinoseed

Dinoseed, in collaboration with Sandy Hsieh and Hau Yuan. Making of… We wanted to create a video that created surprise and wonder, while exploring different effects that stop motion enables. Getting the seed pack out of the screen was one of such effects. To defy people’s expectations, we made a dinosaur appear out of the…

Computer Duet

Made in collaboration with Katya Rozanova for the New Musical Instruments Hackathon – Oct 14, 2017. The pressure of a hackathon, making everything in such a short amount of time was an amazing experience. It really helps you make quick decisions on what to fix and what to drop. We’re extremely happy with the result,…

Collaborating snakes

TL:DR, here’s the link to the running sketch. For this assignment we had to work in pairs, two people, could not do it by yourself. I partnered with Caleb, not only because he was sitting next to me, but mainly because I found really interesting his approach to his last assignment. We quickly reached an…