Touchey Facey is an experience for two people which requires them to transgress usual social boundaries: one person touches the other’s face, repeatedly and deliberately, while a Kinect records the exact locations the touches occur in three-dimensional space. The result …
Facing literally millions of potential source images, distributed across perhaps 100 or so data sources, was a difficult challenge for me at the start of this project. After a few hours of looking, I still hadn’t found anything especially promising.…
I’m using a small subset of the very large Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. Specifically, I’ll be looking at every image tagged “candlestick.” (Here’s the search results from their website; at the time of this writing it returns 935 …
I made a drawing machine that takes the pulse of a user as an input.
Drawing with a US Cutter MH871-MK2 pen plotter, the system reads a user’s pulse with a simple, low-cost pulse oximeter via Arduino. There are a …
In late summer of 2009 I saw an exhibit at the Wood Street galleries featuring a piece by Marnix De Nijs and Edwin van der Heide called Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h). The piece consists of a speaker, mounted at …
Though I still don’t think I get Twitter, Zach’s human-body tweeting machine is fascinating to me; I really like the aesthetic of the oddly neon-rendered images and love imagining the bizarre range of bits and pieces floating around somewhere inside …
In mapping the impact of meteorites around the world, I thought it would be interesting to view the world from above the North Pole. I don’t know if most Earth-impacting meteorites travel in the orbital plane of the solar system …
My twitterbot samples the local wind speed and direction, then uses that information to “blow” on some colored balls in a box. If the wind is coming from the south, the balls will be blown up to the north, and …
I’m a fan of this Twitterbot @deepforger.
@karlavetyan This is a #DeepForgery using techniques of Jackson Pollock from ca. 1948–49. https://t.co/OWC4cQk7OV pic.twitter.com/gG3gfqctlF
— The Deep Forger (@DeepForger) December 1, 2015
The bot takes Twitter users’ input in the form …
NOAA runs a weather website that doesn’t get much love, but I think it’s great. It’s at weather.gov (of course) and what it sorely lacks in ease of use and good design it more than makes up for in …