works tagged with itp
The Dancer (2003)
Photograph taken from the Chanhassen Project by a good friend, Katherine Copeland. Instructions: click & drag
Ambient Telepresence Windchimes (2003)
Two wind chimes that robotically induce their own chimes when the other senses presence. Ideally, each chime is placed in the personal environments of participants in long distance romantic relationships. This chime system is an attempt to establish an ambient, passive communica...
EarthFolding (2003)
A computer screen shows the Earth floating in outer-space. Slowly, as the computer receives and sends Internet data, this model of the Earth folds itself to bring the two countries closer to one another. I hope to illustrate the post-regionality of online community through contorting the land...
Drawing7 Self Representation (2003)
Make a self portrait on paper in color. Use at least three but no more than six colors. Use any materials you want---crayon, pastel, collage, found color, water color, oil, acrylic, colored pencil, magic markers and so on. (One note on collage: you can for instance cut strips of color from a m...
What is Victoria's Secret? (2003)
A contagious media experiment was done between four brainstorming artistic individuals in New York City. The goal was two fold: to create an artistic expression about female identity, and to create a meme that would spread throughout the virtual and physical landscapes - pre-calculated to b...
ITP Site Redesign (2003)
Working closely with faculty and students, I redesigned the cover page of ITP's website. This design was used by ITP from Winter 2002 to Fall 2004.
Processing Tutorial for Flash/Lingo-ers (2003)
When I was a first year at ITP, I did a lot of social engineering in order to bring open source culture to attention. I also wished to support the efforts of some friends in another research program. I taught early releases of Processing to the students and faculty (and current faculty who were...
Scissors Beats Paper (2004)
A short video for an NYU class starring Ariel Churi and Jessica Josephson
teamwork (2004)
A game demo where the player changes the terrain by laying down blocks, then presses go and watches the avatar walk forward, bumping into walls, and eventually reaching the heart and completing the level. When I first began writing this, I was trying to create a game that introduces basic com...
Robotic Typography Summary (2005)
In response to all the media attention being given to my typography robots, I formed this page for easy viewing of the big picture in the project.
Phonemoneme (2004)
Phonemoneme is an expressive simple-rule-based toy or musical instrument or game, like BallDroppings. It uses both the keyboard and the mouse to play. In it, my handwriting moves through space, interacting with four colored bars. These adjustable bars affect motion in different ways. Each graph...
Froggies (2004)
Froggies is a play-testing prototype for a children's digital play environment. A table with a screen embedded into the surface acts as an arena for virtual life. Children react with the virtual life by placing various symbolic markers on the table and sliding them around. The result is a music...
Rollerforms (2004)
My graduate thesis project was to create a third robotic typography sculpture, and to think about the three pieces as one large project. I documented my design process and created many physical prototypes.
Rollerforms Mockup (2004)
This was an applet written to demonstrate how a piece of physical computing in my future would roll about, forming letters. Instructions: click the applet and type.
WindowBomb (2003)
Instructions: When you download and run this program, a tiny window will pop up, shown in figure A. Find a window you hate, and drag this red bomb onto it.
Telesquishy (2003)
This electronic squishy is made of colorless translucent rubber silicon. It hooks up to a computer with a USB cable. If two people hook a squishy up to their computers, then they can see each other's squishing activities coming over the Internet to light up the device. A blue glow means that t...
Minipong: Micro Pong Wall Installation (2002)
Tiny Guerilla Video Game Installation: A minimal ball paddle video game that uses a sewing pinhead for a joystick (move paddle left and right). The screen is the size of a penny. Theoretically, this tiny videogame would be installed into a wall in a public space - preferably a wall that people...
Hand Map (2002)
Week 1 Assignments Problem: Make an interactive map of your brain or body, or a mine field of life. [without defining any variables or going far beyond what we were taught so far] This piece is inspired by Lisa Steele's 'Birthday Suit - Scars and Defects', 1974.
Exquisite Corpse Paint (2002)
Creative Exquisite-Corpse Viewer, using content generated by a hundred ITP students in collaboration with my Applications group during the preceding week. Solution: a cyclical self-drawing, line-recycling, and motion-mimicking strip of communal art.
Addon-Art pcomp Final (arm) (2002)
Interfaces to existing interactive installations can be altered by building additional technology on top of them. This motorized arm interacts with other physical pieces by being present, moving its joints, and waving a flashlight. What if twenty students made twenty pieces that could interac...
Virtual Paper Folding (2002)
An interactive interface which attempts to re-use the visual vernacular to create a system for folding virtual paper.
Davenport Sans : Robotic Typeface (2002)
As you press keys on the keyboard, six wooden "brush strokes" shift into place, forming the character most recently typed. This typeface is named after Thomas Davenport, inventor of the first DC motor in 1834.
BallDroppings (2003)
Balldroppings was one night of idle programming that blew up unexpectedly into a web phenomenon. I learned that simplicity is elegant, and C++ is wonderful for low-latency sound+image. I also learned about addiction and glucose metabolism rate highs. Although I do not accredit myself for having ori...
Ku (2003)
Networked Multiuser Art Installation. Japanese Cartoon character teardrop sculptures can be caressed in order to make water stop streaming from their eyes. The teardrop sculptures may behave organically, but that's only because they are hooked up to other random public viewers over a network. I...
Blackout! (2003)
Instructions: Click the image of the US to strike the landscape with lightning bolts and make the power go out in those areas.
Sensitive Invite for ITP TNO (2003)
This interactive announcement was done for ITP Thursday Night Outs, hosted by Lian Chang. Because of the sensitive 9 11 date, a design expression opportunity arose.
CALL 212 995 3984 AND START WHISTLING (2003)
A Drawing Piece by Josh Nimoy, 2003. Medium: Computer and Electronic Circuitry. Viewers are able to call this installation from a cell phone. When they whistle, ascending scales make vertical strokes on the "paper" while descending scales make more horizontal strokes. Volume will affect the fatn...
Cambridge Study Word Scrambler (2003)
One season, I was getting this ridiculous email forward about the readability of messed up words. After the 3rd time I received the forward, I decided to make an online application that would scramble peoples' text for them. The application caught a meme wave, and people started emailing me thin...
Emotional Square (2003)
Try to guess what emotion this square enacts.
RibbonType (2003)
You type a character to this single-letter sign with a mobile device, AIM, or the web, and it responds by forming the approximate typographic shape through contorting a thin white ribbon. In the following video, the cover has been removed from the installation, exposing the insides for fu...
PixelShare (2003)
A single red pixel, networked between two wall hanging displays with embedded network circuits inside them. One controls the X movement while the other controls the Y movement.
