FALL 2005 work round up
List of Works
1. Naked Pictures
2. Semi-functional Musical Instruments
3. Vikings and Babies!
This is a nickle that says celebrity instead of liberty.
This is a group of pictures that took where i posed naked and projected images of actresses from Us Weekly magazine onto my body.
this last one i eunuch-ized out of sanitation and modesty. although, initially i was just curous as to how it would change the picture if the obvious gender reference was removed.
This is the borgan. I don't know if that's it's actual name yet but this is what it looks like.
It is an excercise bike that powers a sort of organ. One without a keyboard. It does have organ pipes though. It's kind of more a set of bagpipes. But those are playable. This is only playable by pedaling the pedals and pumping the hands. It's late.
i have a movie of the borgan too. it's here. the sound isn't very good. i'm going to make it stronger and louder.
This is what my desk looks like at the end of the semester. god i love having a blog!
This is Elliot. He does not approve of my paparazzisms.
John Berry however, was very excited about the organ.
THis is a poster that we made for the digital media department. I hope it draws more people to come and work with us.
John Berry crucified my phone one day. if you can't read the text it says "jesus phone get crossed"
I am sad that i don't have my friends from back home around. So i have tear drops.
this is what the max guy looks like when he get's laserrrred.
This is a map of the internet
borgan schematics.
more borgan schematics
a design for the table to support the pistons..
notes for a talk i gave about datamapping and powerpoint.
it was an odd and only semi-functional investigation into the relationship between powerpoint and people that do stuff with datamapping. specifically Edward Tufte, Martin Wattenberg, and Benjamin Fry along with a look at David Byrne.I'm interested in the sort of inversion that happens to a minute amount of data that is translated in a social context via the "map" of a powerpoint presentation versus the huge fields of dynamic data that can be delivered very rapidly using visual data-mapping techniques. Data-mapping can be used in a powerpoint presentation to present alot of data very quickly, and basically this is what simple graphs and pie charts do, but they only present a very generalized feel for information if the user cannot browse them in the way that modern dynamic data-mapping allows.
THese are max patches that i wrote while i was here. this pink one is a program to use a nomal keyboard sideways as a controller for some beat cutup software that i wrote. i'll probably put up an ep of that stuff soon. it's pretty fun to use. I really like the way perry hoberman uses keyboard in one of his pieces.. i can't remember which one it is.
this is the very beginnings of another interface that i am developing for generating many many parameters of control from just 2 input parameters on a cartesian grid. it's gonna be awesome. it relates to the idea shared by a few electronic music composers that electronic instruments can have the same versatility and expression that a normal instrument does, it's a matter of mapping simple input parameters to complex output parameters which is what this sets out to do.
This is Sensory Overlord
this is cordero of the lopez
and his shirt.
arvid is a genius and put much much of the video together.
this is also arvid
stefan created a prog keyboard solo max patch just for this performance! it was amazing. he is perfecting the art here.
this is pretty much the status quo for me when i am near my computer. go figure.
