DioT S16 #1 Ambient Awareness
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Prepare a conceptual design and realize a working prototype of an ambient object that presents online data in a physical space and that helps with financial planning/wellbeing.
Prepare a conceptual design and realize a working prototype of an ambient object that presents online data in a physical space and that helps with financial planning/wellbeing.
Create a composed experience which is replayed in physical space that helps participants actively explore (and learn about) the concepts and aesthetics of generative/emegent forms. Read more at...more
Design and build a device or experience that communicates what we can not otherwise perceive. Use sensors or rich media input (video, microphones) to gather unintelligible, unobservable, or under-u...more
Create a digital homage to a 20th century artist/artwork. Explore a work of contemporary art (non-digital, non-screen based) and digitally re-create it in under 2 hours. View full assignment: https...more
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It seems like you're drawing inspiration from the paper leaves hanging from the ceiling. This uses the same material, paper, to give the material in bulk a new form. I wonder what the significance will be of a giant paper dragon hanging from the ceiling. Also, swaying it in some manner, by hand or using a vent, and projecting lights of different color are interesting options to explore.
Go to a Museum and spend time with at least one work of art. The Carnegie Museum of Art is free to CMU students and open every day except Tuesday: see http://www.cmoa.org/visit/ Pick one realist...more
Create a simple perspective drawing of a tiled plaza using Alberti's Construction method.
Select a photographer you like, try and emulate this style. Present at least 5 photographs that you have taken in the style of this photographer and document what you found interesting/challenging ...more
Create a composed experience which is replayed in physical space that helps participants actively explore (and learn about) the concepts and aesthetics of generative/emegent forms. Read more at...more
Create a composed experience that helps participants actively explore (and learn about) the concepts and aesthetics of chance, indeterminacy, randomness/entropy/uncertainty. See More (and comme...more
Find a cultural phenomenon/activity of your everyday life that you believe can be improved by some form of representational and or interpretative information display. Choose something that is perso...more
Observe and document action in a space on campus (e.g. a hallway, the library, a classroom). Consider the kind of actions present and interactivities between individuals. Design an intervention...more
Considering both ‘The Computer as a Mode of Mediation’, Sonic Imaginations, and in-class discussion of mediated representation create a composition or a composition story-board that tells a story (...more
Skills Dev IV: Working with Outputs - Motors and Movement
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