A number of MFA D+T thesis projects have been getting great press from tech blogs. Matt Ruby‘s Alt Ctrl made it to CreativeApplications, as did my fellow first years’ project Hypertext Remix, and Dong Yoon Park‘s Typography Insight made it to Gizmodo. Most exciting is Burcum Turkmen and Katie Koepfinger’s Emoti-Bots‘s coverage on Engadget! That’s […]
Archive for the ‘Spring 2011’ Category
May 17, 2011
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Parsons Festival and Thesis Show
By Tami in Spring 2011While I don’t think anyone actually reads this blog (other than my father, what up dad?!), I think it is important to document my time at Parsons for myself and posterity. For a little over a week now, Parsons has been hosting the first ever Parsons Festival to showcase all of the design programs and […]
May 17, 2011
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Pinion – An Award Winning App
By Tami in Spring 2011, Urban App IncubatorMy group won the second-runner up prize and $1000 from the Urban App Incubator Collaboration Studio course at Parsons, for our mobile application Pinion. Pinion is an alternative, meaningful rating system, that categorizes places through expressive semantics. It also incorporates a dynamic time element to synch with people’s fluctuating moods, as they move throughout the […]
May 10, 2011
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Censored
By Tami in Code for Art, Spring 2011(original photo by Michelle Calabro for MFADT) Description Created for my Code for Art final project, Censored is an application that allows users to censor pictures from last night’s debauchery before posting them online for all to see. Because of the pervasiveness of today’s social networking tools, we are often portrayed in unbecoming ways over […]
May 6, 2011
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Conference Submission
By Tami in Major Studio: Interactivity, Spring 2011I submitted by project as a “Late Breaking” poster to the SIGGRAPH 2011 conference. This is my first conference paper submission as a graduate student. Fingers crossed! Please view/download my submitted documents from the below links: Abstract Supplementary supporting document
Tags: conference, paper, project, studio
May 3, 2011
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Mini-Thesis Final Presentation
By Tami in Major Studio: Interactivity, Spring 2011Check out my final project here, as well as a demonstration of the site’s functionality here (password = earthquake). Please see my in-class final presentation below. The slides can also be downloaded.
Tags: earthquake, final, jQuery, oF, project
May 1, 2011
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Mini-Thesis Progress 3
By Tami in Major Studio: Interactivity, Spring 2011After interesting feedback from the class (including an overwhelmingly positive response to this prototype, which I loath), I hit a figurative wall in my process. How could I combine a visually pleasing interaction with actually meaningful data? I decided that I ultimately could not realize my ideas successfully using openFrameworks. While I was able to […]
April 26, 2011
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Jill & Jill Progress
By Tami in Dynamic Interfaces, Spring 2011Jack and Jill: Remixed is an iPhone based interactive narrative. My group (Jeanna, Nidhi, Tamara) and I are utilizing the iPhone’s accelerometer to allow users to navigate the world that contains the narrative and help the characters move around that world. More details coming soon, but for now, check out our progress here (the interactive […]
April 14, 2011
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Mini Thesis Progress 2
By Tami in Major Studio: Interactivity, Spring 2011Since last week, my project has gone through many iterations and transformations. Please see below for documentation and short descriptions, including thoughts on my latest peer critique and next steps. Mock-ups for an installation piece, experiencing an earthquake through light. The feedback I got from my peers steered me away from this iteration, mostly because […]
Tags: earthquake, iteration, process, project, thoughts
April 14, 2011
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Mini-thesis preview
By Tami in Major Studio: Interactivity, Spring 2011I finally made something pretty and meaningful.
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April 12, 2011
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Earthquake!
By Tami in Code for Art, Spring 2011Description The purpose of this visualization is to show a social Richter Scale. How is a topic such as “earthquake”, used in this example, portrayed by both traditional media and social media? I used the NYT’s Article Search API to represent what traditional media outlets are saying and the Twitter API to represent what “the […]
Tags: c4a, earthquake, oF, project
April 5, 2011
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In Class Workshop
By Tami in Major Studio: Interactivity, Spring 2011Today in Studio we had the pleasure of hearing from artist Joelle Bitton about her personal and professional creative work, at such places as Media Lab Europe, as well as her creative process and ideation techniques. Her works and talk were interesting and inspiring. Check her out! After hearing from Joelle, we split into small […]