Oh, you know what would be good? Hello! We might be live
streaming right now!
Are there captions that are appearing? See, nobody is
looking at the chat. So we do have a little bit of a bug in
our system. Here! What I'm going to do... I have it up on my
computer over there. So first let me say a quick hello to see
if it's working. But yes.
If somebody has a phone and wants to go to it, you'll be
able to see the live chat. My name is Dan Shiffman. This is a
live stream that's happening on a YouTube channel called The
Coding Train, but this is a little bit of a special episode,
in that we -- I'm going
to show you the ITP/IMA winter show.
ITP is a graduate program, IMA is an undergraduate program at
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, where I
teach and make a lot of the video tutorials I have on the
channel. People are saying the captions are there?
And so we're gonna walk around.
There's literally six of us here right now. And we have the most
elaborate setup ever! So there's this microphone.
I should point out that this microphone...
This is just recording backup, additional audio. It's probably
way too close to my face right now. It should be more here.
This phone attached to it is also on a Skype call with a live
captioner. Give yourself a shoutout, live captioner, in the
live captions, who is live captioning.
MIRABAI: Yoooo! DANIEL: I have a feeling the
live captions aren't going to work so well. This is the first
time we're doing it. But we're gonna do our best. And then the
actual audio you're hearing -- I'm tapping the mic. So
hopefully you heard it coming in. So what I'm gonna do right
now is I'm
going to take this prop, which is like our microphone, speaker
like... What is the thing? Where you have the speaker box? You
know when you're at a meeting and you want people to speak one
at a time so you have to hold the... The talking stick! Yes.
This is the talking stick! I'll pass it around. So I'm gonna
pass it over.
These are our students, show producers. I'm gonna let them
introduce themselves and talk about the show and ITP and what
it is, and whatever they want.
And I'm gonna go check just sort of the analytics page and the
chat and all that. And then we'll start looking at projects.
Thank you to Ellen behind the camera. Chelsea, and Jesse over
here are helping. Great. STUDENT: Hi, everyone. I'm
Patrick Warren, first year ITP student.
STUDENT: I'm a second year ITP student. I'm a lighting
designer. STUDENT: So I guess we'll walk
outside and check out the show, right? Oh, what we're doing?
Okay. STUDENT: We're co-producing the
show with the teachers.
We're helping them for doing whatever they want. We did a
beautiful map together of all of the projects on the floor.
This year's special, because we have a beautiful space, and we
have more than a hundred projects! So that's a lot of
projects to go through, for a visitor!
So we made a map that has numbers laid out on the floor
plan, and then a description -- not a description. The name of
the project, the student, and it's color coded according to
where it is. So that's our job! STUDENT: I think she covered it,
yeah! STUDENT: So that's it.
DANIEL: Should we go look at some projects?
STUDENT: Let's go!
DANIEL: So I'll get this this going and we can alternate
around. We'll look at projects. Students are still setting up
their projects, but maybe... Is the boxing gloves in action? All
right. Let's go check out the boxing glove.
So what we're going to attempt to do is...
Ellen, I think the closer you get, the better. Just for the
audio. And then...
You can -- we're gonna keep the camera on you, and the mic on
you, just to describe the project. And then separately, to
demo it. Because we're trying to, like, shoot video of demoing
it. Okay. Say your name and your project, and then a few
sentences about it. STUDENT: Hi.
My name is (inaudible), my project is Punch Punch
Revolution. Basically what it is -- it's a machine learning
gesture classifier, under the hood.
But on the hood, as you can see, it's a fun punching game that
you need to complete a certain amount of tasks in a limited
amount of time. The entire technology is happening inside
this very small thing over here as a demo. And if somebody wants
to try it out, you can have a go at it!
DANIEL: Should I try? Or do you want to demonstrate?
STUDENT: I can demo it. So ideally, it should...
(inaudible).
If I move it like this,
oh, there it goes ! That's how it works. The focus of the
entire project is to
go into an early deep dive just using people's gestures as a
medium of interaction. DANIEL: Awesome! Great job.
So introduce yourselves and your project.
I STUDENT: This is our project.
Basically it's an experiment.
So what you're seeing now is the results of our experiment.
(inaudible) photography.
Where you expose a piece of light sensitive paper to light
over a certain period of time, and you can capture the
light on the paper and how it carves traces of light on this
piece of paper,
and we tried to reproduce this by doing it a digital way. So
basically, for example, we had a series of images, and then we
used the technique that's used in analog photography to expose
a digital canvas with the images.
That series of
-- for example, that's images from a dance performance. And an
analog version of the results.
You have a piece of photography which is digital-based, but it
has the texture and aesthetics of an analog photo.
And the digital exposure process... The whole digital
print. And how it is made digitally.
DANIEL: This phone is buzzing like crazy. It's somebody who's
Instagram messaging! Is it going today? Are you going today? Hold
on!
(laughter) DANIEL: This is an official NYU
phone that someone left their Instagram signed in on. Let me
try to look at the Skype. I think the captioner is sending
me some messages.
DANIEL: This is me testing, speaking directly into the mic.
So tell us your name and give us a couple sentences about your
project. We'll shoot that separately.
STUDENT: Hi.
So let's do it again! My name is Nela. I'm first year here at
ITP, and my project is sort of about video collage and machine
learning. DANIEL: Fantastic! I don't know
why I just did this. Cool. You'll do a demo?
STUDENT: Basically what? STUDENT: Basically what's going
on here is there are live streaming cameras on the floor
and you can play with them. If you look at stream three, you
can see all of us, and I'm gonna make our heads appear on our
body collage. So by using this controller...
It's stream three. I changed it to stream one. There we go. One
second. And there we go. Now it's all of our heads as part of
this. I can make our bodies show up too.
So in a second, you'll see a big orange
blob, hopefully for Shiffman's body. Specifically for this
demo.
So it allows you to play with these streams like a human
collage.
If you know the game Exquisite Corpse, the game you play with
drawing pictures -- that was the inspiration for this. Thank you!
DANIEL: Are you activated with the blocks? Okay.
So tell us your name and a few sentences about your project.
STUDENT: So my name is Tami, and my
project is basically a game (inaudible).
The animation is basically around (inaudible), and you have
to slide the
blocks into the box to complete it.
And then you pass to the next sentence.
This is basically a wired-in tool.
DANIEL: Wonderful! Thank you!
Okay, great!
My goal is to see as many projects as possible.
So we're just doing a rapid fire. I think it's kind of nice.
Okay. Tell us your name and a few sentences about your project
and then we'll go look at the specific parts.
STUDENT: Hi. I'm Winnie.
And so these are from my class.
So I do a lot of projects about the prototypes, and specifically
focusing on narratives. I'm really interested in
non-traditional approaches to protests, and the focus of
narratives, because I feel like the ability to craft a narrative
is something that's really powerful.
So these are narratives... Yeah.
So these two projects are about voice
and protestors, and so I have this
transcript, and generated texts, and
also the most common words
. And this here --
as you hover, you can see the articles, and the brighter the
box is, the more articles I have read in that hour of the day.
And then the last one -- more about media rhetoric.
The same information we could have for different
interpretations.
So you see we're about to create a
system -- what I did was I created this
framework, where I have this article, which is compiled by a
number of pro-China and pro-Hong Kong media
articles, and I asked people to select
(inaudible), and then to type words in response, and also take
the headline
images that think they are they think are most appropriate, and
ask a little bit about whether they've been following the
protests, and after they did that, they could see everyone's
responses. DANIEL: Thank you! I'm gonna...
Because I'm feeling very paranoid -- I'm gonna see if I
can get the YouTube chat going on this phone also. I'm just
gonna check. Speaker has to be closer to the mic. So we're
gonna do our best. Let's see. We're gonna do a little
check-in. Maybe you're saying a lot of important things in the
chat. I don't know how to use this phone! YouTube!
CodingTrain. Search... Okay. Good. I'm more looking for
people saying like... The stream is not working. I can't hear
anything.
But the chat looks good. Okay. Okay. Great. No, it's all going
very well. See, usually the chat is just full of people... Not
complaining. Complaining is the wrong word. Very nicely
providing constructive critique about what the technology is not
doing correctly. But I think we might have finally got all the
right pieces here. Sure. Yeah. Okay.
So rapid fire glimpses of everybody's projects. So you can
tell us your name, and a few sentences about your project.
And then we'll also go right ahead and share some footage.
STUDENT: We have another collaborator. Not here today.
STUDENT: But together we made sacred languages and internet
portrait.
Commemorating Sandra Bland, commemorating and celebrating
her life. We used a process called internal...
Eternal reflection.
And we printed this image on leucite. So the idea is that
when you walk past the sensor, it will detect that you're
there. And when you say her name, Sandra Bland, this will
light up.
STUDENT: Some small technical
difficulties with the ultrasonic sensor. As with everything at
ITP, this has become more of a prototype than a finished piece.
And we're learning through this experience. What we would do
differently, how we would change it, and also seeing how it
changes as people interact with it. When the first roll of paper
came down, it was like... Okay! What do we do now? Let's just
leave it! STUDENT: I'll say it again.
Sandra Bland.
STUDENT: I guess you can come back another time.
STUDENT: Sometimes when you say the name, it doesn't get
printed.
We've also noticed that the ultrasonic sensor causes some
type of lag. So we can't necessarily...
There it is! Yeah.
STUDENT: Sometimes the medium of digital media shines through,
and we get that!
DANIEL: We'll fix it all in post. Great job.
STUDENT: Thank you!
DANIEL: Hi! Hello! Tell us your name and a few sentences about
your project.
STUDENT: My name is (inaudible), and I
work withpegy with Peggy Shin.
So you have to go to the back of this
to see the details of the project.
DANIEL: Can you give us an explanation first?
STUDENT: Sure, okay.
So people always look at the front, and we want to actually
see what is behind and what is the relationship between
people who have been away and people who are live. So it gets
movement and also the sound
of people who are live -- that's what the movement will be like.
We want to talk about the relationship and discuss that.
So that's it.
DANIEL: This way?
Okay! Great! Perfect. Sorry.
Tell us your name and a few sentences about your project.
This is a VR project? This will be hard. But you have an
excellent display of extra information. Fantastic.
STUDENT: So this is a VR project that is
still a compositional experimentation in VR. I'm not
quite sure how to show it. You're welcome to look at it
yourself. DANIEL: I'll come back.
STUDENT: But it's a non-narrative art piece, yeah. I
don't know what to say about it.
DANIEL: Oh, perfect!
How is it going? It's okay! So we're doing quick summaries of
people's projects. I'm very excited about this.
So just tell us your names, and maybe a
summary, and we'll get you doing a demonstration of the project.
STUDENT: This is our game.
It is a cooking game that teaches you how to cook
traditional Indian and Chinese recipes.
STUDENT: We can just show you how this works.
STUDENT: Cooking Chinese. Pepper with pork.
And you can choose whatever thing is right for the dish.
Keep going. Now is the meat.
And then whenever you're done, you just push the button.
There you go.
For the traditional recipes, and learn more about our project on
the website -- get more than 60%.
Thank you so much!
DANIEL: All right! All three, again.
Tell us your names and describe your project. Take it from the
top! Speak into the microphone.
STUDENT: We made our believable news project. This is an
installation.
And basically...
You can see the news before you wear these glasses. But if you
wear these glasses, you can see a piece of news and it says...
(inaudible) in public space.
And this image actually totally makes sense where it is.
But if you change to another glasses, you can see a different
version of this space. This is our secret here. I can touch
here and trigger this.
And you can see another piece of news happening in Berlin. It
also makes sense for this image.
And if you change to another pair of glasses, you can see
another version.
Customers in Shanghai buy shirts. People won't know which
is true and which is fake. And after you see all of the news,
we can share this news to another person.
Those three are the news that you just saw.
And if I want to share, like,
the public space -- I can just share it. If I share it, it will
tell you it is misinformation or real news.
And you can see other people's screens. The message you just
shared with other people will affect other people's final
decision about which is real and which is fake. So we made this
project.
Basically we want people to know...
To question the genuineness of the image. Because many people
think the evidence
actually is th image is the evidence of the events.
The second step for the project -- to know that their behavior
is affecting other people.
They're not always a consumer of fake news. They're also the
enhancer of the fake news influences. Yeah. Thank you!
DANIEL: I like how we're all applaud aining. So nice. Just
checking. Cool idea. Cool. All right. We're just gonna keep
going through all these projects! Tell us your name.
STUDENT: I'm the creator of this project. This is called
optimize.
It's a (inaudible).
So this is a prototype. I made all the industrial design.
(audio dropped)
So I did some (inaudible), which is done by machine learning...
(audio dropped) It becomes what you see here.
So it's an ergonomic mouse, and because
a mouse is the most dependent -- it's to your hand size and grip.
So this is...
(audio dropped) DANIEL: Let's take a look at
this.
Can you come and talk about your project? Okay. Let's get you
giving a quick explanation, and then we can try to demo it and
get some footage of it. Say your name first.
STUDENT: My name is Natalie Chen.
STUDENT: I'm Cesar. Our project is called the joys of being a
screen saver. It's an interactive video installation
with four channels of video and one rotary phone. The concept is
that a human is stuck as your screen saver, and you can
interact with her by calling her on the rotary phone, and by her
calling you on the phone. And it's just a back and forth
between the real world and the digital world, between you
making the character move
one of the screens around you, and interacting with her.
DANIEL: Hello! Tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project.
STUDENT: Our project is called antifishphish.
It's about testing that a human can live with a robot in the
future and robot can replace human or not. So our concept is
to test that you have to identify who is a human and who
is a robot. STUDENT: It's like a Turing
test. So we try to embrace the human connection between two
people. So we'd like to demonstrate... We need one
person who is going to be the actor and one person who is
going to be the judge.
You can be the actor. STUDENT: You want to be a judge?
STUDENT: There's a lot of robots that look like you and pretend
to be you.
So you have to give them the code.
Hey, I'm human, I'm human! You're a robot! Oh, I'm a robot.
They're different from you! Yes, that's right. Okay.
I need one person to be a judge.
So in this, we combine the VR experience and the
server/client. So you're gonna be the server. You're gonna be
the judge. You don't have to do anything. You just observe.
Just see if it's human or not.
You just take off your head set and then you can come on.
STUDENT: You see anything? STUDENT: I see it.
STUDENT: How do I do this?
STUDENT: They're dancing?
STUDENT: I think it's the one on the right.
STUDENT: I thought I was in the middle.
STUDENT: So how do you feel?
(laughter) STUDENT: If I had a second
chance, I might have more of a sense of what some strategy
might be.
Just even going into the VR headset is disorienting.
But it's a really fun idea. STUDENT: Yeah. Really fun.
STUDENT: Do you think his movement is like a robot?
STUDENT: I guess I was thinking about it... Once I started
focusing on that a little bit more...
I ignored the VR after a while. I was trying to figure it out.
Yeah.
DANIEL: This is where you find an arcade! I can explain this
project!
This is a project from Sara, who's not here, but we're gonna
come back. It's a small arcade. That's built with an Arduino
inside, and you can select a whole bunch of different games.
They're playing Tetris right now. Take a look.
Looks like we have a professional Tetris player!
Okay. Should we go around? Here?
Hello! Can we hear a couple sentences? Tell us your name and
a couple sentences. STUDENT: Hi.
I'm afiddling fiddling with the iPlayer, and the neural network
is trying to figure out what it's seeing. It has to take
liberties in combining stuff that it hasn't seen combined
before, so it's inadvertently creating
some abstract art in response to my art. Similar to how we react
to abstract art, I think.
DANIEL: Let me see if I can see the captions.
DANIEL: Yes! Awesome.
This is quite involved, yes? But can you give us a quick summary
of the game? Of the project?
STUDENT: This is an old-fashioned board game. I'm
trying to solve the problem of our
major games that have to deal with strategy and family being
together.
Namely Mony Monopoly, Risk, and Murder, not having to deal with
war, murder, or bankruptcy.
So my game is called Jackrabbits, and you play with
regular poker cards, and basically what you're trying to
do is -- the rabbits live in this kingdom. They're trying to
find a king, a queen, and a jack to officiate the wedding in the
castle. It comes with tiles. So every time you play, you create
a
new board, and in the game, what you do is you have to navigate
through it, trying to find the royal cards. In that sense, it's
like you're collecting properties, like you would do
in Monopoly, but instead, of trying to get your opponent to
go bankrupt, you're trying to arrange this wedding before they
do. DANIEL: Did you make all of
these pieces? STUDENT: I made everything and
designed everything!
It's made out of MDF, it's laser cut,
and this is just a sticker photo, printed with an ink jet
printer.
And I built a digital version of the
board, on p5, which I actually put together.
I still have to figure out how to get this into production.
Maybe do a Kickstarter. But in the mean time, I'll keep this
online and people will be able to play with their own poker
cards. So if you have a deck of cards, you don't need to wait
for me to produce the
actual board to be able to play Jackrabbits.
DANIEL: Great job! I really want to come and play it. It looks
fun. STUDENT: Thank you.
DANIEL: What you don't know is Lachlan was our sound check
person yesterday. So they've really rehearsed their project
description. Okay. So tell us your name, which you have
already. Spoiler alert, Lachlan. And a few things about your
project. STUDENT: So I'm Lachlan, I'm a
first year student here at IMA, and I made a website called
gunfunded, a visualization of the gun lobby's funding of US
Congress. DANIEL: What's the URL?
STUDENT: Gunfunded.com.
So on the website, you can enter your home address to find a
representative, or you can explore.
So here we are in Brooklyn, and so... Unsurprisingly, our
representative here is not funded by gun rights groups.
But you can also see some of the top funded Congresspeople or
explore by state.
And so where I'm from, in Pennsylvania,
you can see the total and how the
funding is disproportionately -- goes to Republican men in
Congress.
And so you can go to anyone's profile. You can share these --
you can see lists of top Senators and
representatives, and there's also a view of the PACs that
give money.
So you can see like in 2018, there was $22 million given to
Congress, but in 2016, it was $58 million.
And so basically every year, up until most recently, the graphs
looked like this.
Because Congress has received about $40 million from gun
rights groups and about $5 million from gun control groups.
So you can also click to filter the list and see how much money
the NRA specifically has given every year. Or any other group.
So that's gunfunded, and it's gunfunded.com.
DANIEL: Thank you!
Will you tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project? STUDENT: Yes, my name is
Veronica. This is a breathing exercise.
So the way that it works is you squeeze
the ball and you inhallhale at the same time that you release
the ball and you exhale. And you're supposed to follow the
pattern that this hexagon is giving you. And there's also
some sound coming out of the headphones that is also guiding
your breathing. So the idea is that people can have some
sensory input at the same time of some visual input to come and
relax. And this is targeted for people with
anxiety, who are suffering from anxiety. Yeah.
DANIEL: I tried this yesterday, and it really helped me calm
down in a wonderful way.
Oh, hello! We're back! Let's go. .. We've got a bunch of things
here. We'll come here first. Okay. All right. Is this... Just
you? Yes? Okay. So tell us your name. Which you already said.
And a few sentences about your project.
STUDENT: Hi. My name is Emily. My project is called Racing
Thoughts, and it's a self-reflective experience. It's
really simple.
You're just asked to write two sentences about yourself. So
it's a little bit... DANIEL: I'm gonna try.
We can blur out anything you write that's very... Yeah.
Hundreds of thousands of people watching here. Actually about a
hundred.
STUDENT: A negative sentence... Um...
DANIEL: I can take over. I've got lots of negative things.
STUDENT: Oh, God. Okay. We can just say...
Type a positive sentence. I'm funny!
The key to happiness is in accepting your thoughts, all of
them. Accept your thoughts.
Understand "I'm having a sad thought".
Having a continuous succession of sad thoughts is not so nice.
So it said... It took you 12.
7 seconds to say something negative, 4.5 seconds to say
something positive.
Racing Thoughts by Emily Zell. Thank you, Emily!
I had the pressure on me as well.
DANIEL: How are you? Okay. Tell us your name and a few sentences
about your project. STUDENT: My name is Carina, this
is Frame by Frame, and I'm trying to get
people to collaboratively tell us a story through GIFs. So each
person is contributing one frame to the story.
DANIEL: Should we try to add one?
Two frames? Okay.
That's pretty good!
STUDENT: You can read more and more of the story.
And try to understand based on the GIFs and how people chose to
represent the words, and if you try to understand and you
compare it to the original story...
DANIEL: That is really fun. I wouldn't have thought you would
get so much out of just two frames. It's really amazing.
STUDENT: Yeah, it's really surprising, what people choose
to represent it!
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project.
STUDENT: My name is Lulu, and this is an installation to show
that everybody has a mountain on their original plan.
And this is how it works.
I have to make this the shape of my hand. And it turns into a
mountain. Which is my own mountain.
I want everybody to have a nature connection when they see
the ridge of their hand. Yeah. DANIEL: We walked by this
project so many times. I didn't understand what it was doing.
And I'm amazed. STUDENT: Yeah.
You have to interact with it. DANIEL: When you take a moment
to pause and experience it, I think it's really moving.
Wonderful job! Thank you! Okay.
We'll come over here. Hello!
Can you tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project? STUDENT: Hi.
My project is this mirror. When you speak into a microphone,
you're interacting with the mirror.
Yeah, sure. Here's the prompt. DANIEL: I'm gonna combine "cry
for me" and your favorite song.
Don't cry for me, Argentina! Ha-ha! Oh, no!
My nostril is so beautiful! It's really not. It's not. It's not.
Ugh. Oh!
You want to demonstrate?
Good job. That's super fun. STUDENT: Thank you!
DANIEL: Okay!
So I played this earlier. We need four players. All right.
So I think let's have you explain the project, and we'll
play through some of it. We're trying to get through as many
things... I don't know if I can go through the whole experience,
but let's see how it goes. Okay? So tell us your names.
Why don't you all come stand together?
STUDENT: My name is Nick. STUDENT: I'm Jira.
STUDENT: Welcome to Death is Imminent. Let's have fun. In
this four player game, users must communicate with each other
in order to fix a defective spacecraft.
So who wants to play? DANIEL: We need four players.
This is gonna be... Very hard to caption. So for those of you
reading the captions, I apologize.
This is the mic for the captioner. Just gonna put that
in the center.
SPEAKER: Ha-ha, you lost. STUDENT: My senses tell me that
the Earth is in a state of despair.
It is cracking apart and mankind's time on earth is
coming to an end. We need to take off immediately. I
understand that you do not know how to operate a spacecraft.
That is okay. The instructions are on your console. But you
need to do them before the countdown is over. Otherwise,
you will damage the ship. Too much damage, and we will all
die. Did you get that? Good. Starting preparation sequence in
five, four, three, two, one. New instructions. You have 15
seconds!
DANIEL: Slide counter to right!
(booming, thumping music)
DANIEL: Cool!
Okay.
Uncover North!
Clockwise! Got you!
STUDENT: Uncover South. Who has South?
DANIEL: Good job. Cool. All right, all right!
DANIEL: Oh, I have it?
STUDENT: New instructions. You have 30 seconds.
(computer chiming) STUDENT: New instructions. You
have 27 seconds. The motors are turning faster.
New instructions. You have 24 seconds.
New instructions. You have 21 seconds. You are all halfway to
leaving the Earth. The spaceship is beginning to look like its
former glory.
You have 18 seconds. DANIEL: Rotate matrix clockwise!
Got it! Good job!
Hey, I found the structure.
Slide cathode to bottom. That's my thing!
DANIEL: New instructio SPEAKER: New instructions. You
have 20 seconds.
New instructions. You have 10 seconds.
DANIEL: Cover South.
SPEAKER: New instructions. You have 8 seconds.
DANIEL: Ship is launching! Ship is launching!
Amazing.
Okay.
I'm still recovering from that. Tell us your name.
STUDENT: I'm Adrian. Second year student at ITP. I built this
project called Public Message, which is meant to explore
physical locations and augmented reality and how they shape
public discussions. So basically... If you want to do a
quick demo... DANIEL: Tell us the spiel.
STUDENT: Sure.
So it's becoming more common now for AR
content to appear in public spaces, from
Pokemon Go to the Snapchat collaboration, but the question
of who controls that space... Is it the platform? Is it the
people who create the content?
Is it the people who own the space? If it's a public space,
is it the government? This kind of takes over that conversation
as AR becomes more and more popular and more prevalent. So
what I did was I built...
A little app where you get a sticker. Any smartphone that can
read a QR.
You open up a webAR experience.
So you don't have to download anything. There's a little
pointer about how to set it up. Start it. And when you run it...
There's a little prompt.
And then you can always reply.
Like I don't want sponsored content.
Press that.
Go back.
And post the content there. So people can discuss in a physical
space what's there. But it's not really there. So yeah.
DANIEL: Fantastic! Great job.
Hello there! STUDENT: Hi.
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a couple sentences about your
project. STUDENT: I'm Jenny. I'm a second
year ITP student.
My project is an AR audio-visual system that takes you through
New York City, and most of the stories happen in Washington
Square Park, so the experience is actually mapped in Washington
Square Park, and how the experience is -- is that you
follow this transparent tube, and it will lead you to a
location. There's a big wheel of self-love. It's kind of a
metaphor of how people are in relationships. There's tunnel
vision. They only see one point. And it's like... When people are
doing AR, they're focusing on their phone, and it looks
ridiculous to people from the outside.
And hopefully with the big reveal,
people can take in the world and that they're focused on
themselves. It's like tough love.
DANIEL: So the audio is through the headphones?
STUDENT: Yeah.
So it's mapped to Washington Square Park.
That's why you can only experience the real aspects of
the experience, like, the revealing part... It's not
mapped here. So you have to be careful not to bump into people.
DANIEL: Let's try it for a couple minutes.
You want to try?
STUDENT: Yeah. How you play the audio is by putting a tube in
the middle of the screen. To make it solid. That's the only
time when the audio will play.
This is the revealing part already. So you can just walk
closer to it. And if you follow the tube to the artist site,
it's just gonna be where you were supposed to come from.
Yeah.
You can just walk.
So this is not mapped here.
DANIEL: Thank you! Tell us your name and a couple sentences
about your project. STUDENT: I'm Maya.
STUDENT: And I'm Kara. STUDENT: Our project is data
visualization that uses augmented reality to look at
housing unaffordability on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. So
we'll show you how it works.
STUDENT: Basically if you get this iPad and look at the map of
the Lower East Side, it's gonna show you a hundred people. If
you click on this icon in the corner, it will bring up some
facts. First it's gonna show you the median rent of a 2 bedroom
apartment on the Lower East Side. Then it's gonna show you
what the median household income is in the same area, and there's
a pretty stark contrast of those two numbers. And it shows you
how that actually affects people's ability to live in that
area. So it talks about this thing called the 40 times rule.
And the 40 times rule states that you
must make 40 times monthly rent in income per year, in order to
be allowed to rent. This is something that happens when
you're applying for a new place. So if Maya goes ahead and closes
it...
People start to fade away. And this is to show you that of the
population of 158,000 in the Lower East Side, only 8% of them
would be able to live there, according to the 40 times rule.
So that's what remains.
DANIEL: Thank you! Let's go over here.
Hello, there. Will you tell us your name and a couple sentences
about your project? And then you can demo it as well.
STUDENT: So I made a Chrome Extension
that goes over your browsing page and highlights CO2
emissions that are produced during internet use, internet
browsing. So I can show you...
When you load a page, a new bubble appears, and the size of
the bubble estimates grams of CO2 that's produced during that
page load. And then it sort of...
It calculates the grams of CO2 produced
during this browsing session and tries
to estimate the miles that you can drive, emitting that amount
of CO2 in a standard car. So all of these numbers are very much
estimates.
But this is...
It was more sort of to show people who don't really know
about this -- to make them realize that the internet has
physical consequences. So yeah. DANIEL: Is it available in the
Chrome Store? STUDENT: Not at the moment,
because I want to fix some of the numbers. But yeah. At some
point. And then I also just...
Looked at the -- how many API calls I made for Twitter. Every
second.
And I also mapped my own browsing throughout the week.
And to see how many grams of CO2 -- how much I'm producing. Yeah.
DANIEL: How are you doing there? Does your arm need a break? We
can do some switching. We can switcheroo.
I wanted to see if anybody recognizes this song. Does
anybody recognize this song?
Still not sure?
STUDENT: I can download the patches.
DANIEL: All right. Sorry to lead with that.
Could you gather in one spot? All of you who worked on this?
And just tell us your names and a few sentences about your
project. STUDENT: My name is Ryo.
STUDENT: I'm Karen. STUDENT: So this project -- we
found the electronics so fascinating.
So we wanted to change them into other shapes, and we found all
these things in
the US stores.
Like the old telephones and the old turntable.
And then we made this record player,
and we made it into a bubble machine.
Actually, it's a happiness generator machine.
STUDENT: It's the experience of playing
a vinyl player, and this is for changing the speed of the music.
Okay.
Then this is the whack-a-mole game.
You can use this to whack it.
DANIEL: Did I break it?
Gentle whacking.
DANIEL: Hold on. Oh yeah! Hello! You've got a screen here.
Excellent. Tell us your name. And a few sentences about your
project. STUDENT: Okay. So where should I
be looking? At you? I'm Andrea.
And my project is a VR project.
It uses VR to tell a poetic experience,
kind of exploring flashbacks, and how people are in control of
their own experiences and memories. Does anyone want to
try it on?
And the interaction is super easy.
You can just take your time.
Let me know if you need any help adjusting anything. Okay.
So I'm gonna put it in your hand.
Pressing down allows you to move forward. Letting go lets you let
go. And in the beginning you want to go toward the end and
then take a left. But as you go on, maybe you're not gonna want
to move. So it's kind of up to you to decide.
STUDENT: The first time you go through this experience, it's
like...
You're walking around, and now this part is supposed to
represent how memory will kind of try to understand that. So
the memory... If you've ever unfortunately
experienced something traumatic, you might play that memory over
and over in your head again. If you choose to stop, you can stop
time and stop it from looping, but you can never prevent what's
gonna happen. It's looping this memory. And it describes... A
specific experience.
And it allows people to think about that experience.
DANIEL: Thank you!
You can keep going! Okay.
So you're taking over my spot.
STUDENT: So this is a ball.
Every time it bounces, it throws a word at you. I can show it.
You control it like this. You have to hit the lyrics.
You have to wait for that part.
Every time you hit the word, you get one point. I would say seven
more seconds.
Okay.
Train.
It's working!
So basically every time it bounces, it goes one word
further.
Yeah. So I guess...
I feel like this is a song everyone knows. But not everyone
seems to know it, actually.
But 90% of the people here know it. Yeah. It's a fun song. And
it's really difficult to sing it in a karaoke bar, but I'm trying
to make everyone able to actually sing it.
So I'm trying to hit the right rhythm.
I feel bad that I can't show it.
Yeah. It was. Yeah. It is. It is.
Very close to a working prototype. Yeah. Unfortunately
it's... This. Yeah. Thank you so much.
DANIEL: So can you tell us your name and a little bit about your
project? STUDENT: Sure. I'm Jake. My
project is called Time Escape. It's a kinetic art installation
to raise awareness for climate change and humans' effect on the
climate.
It shows future potential climate change scenarios from
best case to worst case.
As you progress, it gets a little more chaotic.
This is a tranquil, softer sound. And as you go on, it gets
more chaotic and becomes scary at the end.
DANIEL: So talk a little bit about your project.
STUDENT: Sure. So...
The RCP stands for represented concentration of pathways.
The international Governmental Panel for climate change adapted
it around the world to have a baseline for specific climate
change data points. But it has four various scenarios, which
allowed me to paint a picture of best case and worst case. Of
what would happen in the climate if we do everything that
corrects the problems that we have, or if we do nothing.
DANIEL: Thanks very much. STUDENT: Thank you!
DANIEL: So can you tell us your name and a little bit about your
project? STUDENT: Yes.
So (inaudible) our project is called Around Us. It's about
something around us, also around the earth. So you can see
here...
So you always check the weather when you wake up, or when you
want to go to a new place, but you don't know where it is, you
have to use the map.
So all those technologies are based on satellites. But we
never think about that. So we want to make some awareness
through this project. So they're there.
So we use official data from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Based on these data, we made three visualizations.
So first,
timeline shows from 1974 to 2019, how many satellites
launched.
Based on these four categories, government, commercial, military
-- and you civilian. And you can see estimates in here -- the
Open Source data is chosen by them. So we actually don't know
how many satellites launched during this. We picked some
random numbers from this data, and we want to show there's
something more.
For this data.
And also, based on this data, there's a word map
visualization.
It shows how many satellites are owned by each country.
You can see various industries.
So
the ISS has more than 900 satellites.
And the final one is called... Satellites showing what kind of
satellites are around the earth.
When you take the mouse to the satellites, you can see the
details of the satellites.
The owner and operators of the satellites.
And also we printed out some kind of
trading card, like NBA or MLB. We don't want to make this too
serious.
We just want to show people -- make them more aware. A little
bit of awareness about the things around us. That's all!
Thank you.
DANIEL: Hold on. We'll come in a second.
If you type a comment there, I can make you a moderator. Yeah,
yeah. I think it's the easiest way.
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project. STUDENT: I'm Matt.
I'm a second year at ITP and I'm here to talk to you about your
relationships with your data. Daniel, do you think you have a
problem with data hoarding? DANIEL: Yes.
STUDENT: Do you every day wake up and generate Google
documents, spreadsheets, and even PowerPoints? That are just
living and sitting in your cloud services?
DANIEL: Yes! STUDENT: So what I have here
today is a simple outlet. It's not just a simple outlet. This
outlet is connected directly to the servers at Google. And what
it does is it looks for any documents that you haven't even
looked at in over two years. So let's say you gave a
presentation just two and a half years ago, and is that something
you really need in your life? Is this something that's really
sparking joy?
This project is sort of my first step in trying to have a better
relationship with my data and hopefully all of our data. So
what you can do here today is... One of two things. You can take
the extreme route. Authenticate, pull the plug, and delete
everything that's older than two years. Here is a video of me
doing exactly that.
And you can say: I have a lot of useless stuff here that I
haven't looked at. But that's a little bit extreme.
So I have made an alteration to this.
To kind of let us take the first step into a more healthy
relationship with our data. So what you can do today is... Log
in.
And it will find just one single file. And it will show you what
that file is. And if you're ready, you can pull the plug.
And it will delete just that single file. And maybe just let
you take a step towards having data in your life that really
makes you feel good and that is important to you.
And then you can maybe move on. DANIEL: My phone is over here. I
don't have two factor. STUDENT: Yeah, just for the sake
of speed, I can do it myself and delete one of my own files. So
I'll show you how it works. Obviously a big issue is
privacy. And keeping things safe. So all the code is Open
Source, and you can see how everything is working. All the
credentials are only stored just for the sole time of the
experience.
And all the browsers are in Incognito windows. None of the
sessions get saved.
You have a nice ASCII art, blank page, log in.
There we go. All right. Don't worry about that. It's a
friendly suggestion.
So here are these. This is just the amount of things that any
Google Chrome extension would ask of you. Allow. Okay. So now.
.. The script is activating. And you see it's retrieving all
documents from a year and a half ago.
And I have ten total files that I
haven't looked at in over 18 months. This is a file called
LifeRetro. Which I think has some life goals from a few years
ago.
I'm here at ITP. Things are going well. Let me get rid of
this! So here's this plug. And when I pull this, I'll have six
seconds to change my mind.
There it goes.
The activation of one file.
And that's the whole process! Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. DANIEL: This is giving me a lot
of anxiety. I feel like I need to fully dive into this at some
point. STUDENT: You know, we should
definitely talk. But we have another... I have another
project here that I've worked on, which is a lot less
invasive. DANIEL: What a nice segue! Let's
come over here!
Can you introduce yourself and tell us a few words about your
project? STUDENT: Sure. I'm a second year
here at ITP. And I've worked together with him.
We developed a new team called Purell Data, where obviously you
can see healthy data starts here.
And we really wanted to raise awareness of browser hygiene and
the fact that we
are constantly keeping our bodies clean, and whenever we
leave the public space, we sanitize our hands, but our
phone is
no less public than the train, and our browser is no less
public than the train or any place that we're visiting. So we
want to show you something that we've developed in the past few
weeks. I'm gonna take my phone. Here.
And scan this QR code.
It's gonna send me to a Safari web page. Nothing too fancy
about it. It's just a p5 sketch. Asking me... Insert your phone
into the container now.
I'm going to turn on the machine.
And put this lovely little phone in here.
Now, all our goal today is basically to delete or clear
your browsing history.
So I'm gonna come here to this Purell, lovely Purell, and I'm
gonna use it.
And if you take a look here, my browsing history has been
cleared. And that's it! That's it! We really encourage you all
to think about doing that every time you use a hand sanitizer.
You want to add something about this?
STUDENT: This is the first step of a cleaner, more healthy
lifestyle.
Healthy hands start here with Purell. Healthy data starts with
this machine.
DANIEL: (inaudible) next to the actual Purell?
STUDENT: Sign me up. I'll sign the petition.
DANIEL: The easiest way is if you -- oh, okay. Someone
arrived. That's good. Just type a message saying hello.
Okay. So now add moderator. Yep. Okay. Where are we going here?
STUDENT: These are my parents. We're gonna try this out on my
parents. DANIEL: Fantastic!
STUDENT: They just got here from Houston, Texas.
DANIEL: Should we pop back and forth?
Okay. Wait.
VR is always hard to do. Oh, there's a screen? Why don't we
get a quick explanation? Is that okay? Can you tell us your name
and a couple sentences about your project?
STUDENT: I'm Lillian. STUDENT: I'm Avi.
STUDENT: We did a VR experience that
explores Hiyao Nukisama's work. She has a lot of installations
based off of infinity, so I wanted to play with that concept
in virtual reality, which is a truly infinite space. So we made
a few different rooms. You can just explore endlessly. And you
can just get out whenever you want.
DANIEL: Thank you for sharing! Okay. Okay. Let's come over
here.
All right. Can you tell us your name? And a few sentences about
your project? STUDENT: Hi.
My name is Boar, and I'm from Stanford, and this is my
project. It's called the Shape of Evil, and it's
a detective VR game. DANIEL: Should we have a content
warning? STUDENT: It's okay. We're fine.
DANIEL: This is a horror game, if anybody is concerned. Maybe
skip ahead one minute.
STUDENT: You can see I'm an agent now.
Yeah.
I can find this -- over here... Oh. I saw the information about
this. That woman. Ah.
And when I press Q, I can switch different items.
DANIEL: Thank you so much.
Now we're ready over here. You're ready for me? All right.
Can you do a quick introduction of yourself?
STUDENT: Sure. My name is Nikil.
I'm a first year student here at ITP. The piece is a sound piece.
That is exploring a restless mind, one thought at a time.
So when my mom starts, she'll hear nothing, initially.
But after removing each of these pieces, and burying it in the
dirt, she'll start to hear more and more. But she won't hear the
entire musical composition until everything is removed.
And I'll just leave it at that. I'm curious what you all think.
Okay. Just take a seat. Take your time.
And remove these one at a time and bury them here. And that's
it.
STUDENT: Nobody will experience it the same way. They're hearing
little bits and pieces of the entire composition as they
remove things. But now that she's removed everything, she's
gonna hear the full musical composition.
So eventually people will just get to
the same experience, ultimately, but not until they take
everything down.
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a couple sentences about your
project. STUDENT: I'm Rebecca, and this
is our computer media final. This is a collective data
visualization
that visualizes your apartment. as clocks. The idea behind it is
that the clock is ticking, just like your life.
It's endlessly ticking, and i we want you to see the process.
We'll create a unique clock for you. So we'll show you.
So it will detect your heart rate.
Wait a second.
It sometimes cannot detect your heart rate. And sometimes will
increase it up to 200.
Oh, here it comes.
So that's your heartbeat.
So here...
And then you will hear others' clocks here.
And you'll hear the ticking sound, and if you don't have it,
you will hear all kinds of ticking.
So you'll hear all kinds of... Other people's lives right here.
And it's inspired by the clock
installation made by (inaudible), and this is the
digital version of that. Thank you!
DANIEL: Excellent. Can you tell us your name and a few sentences
about your project? STUDENT: My name is Ben. First
year ITP student. I created a lighting designer stage
assistant tool. So you can test out your vision for a show
before you actually move into the theater. So the idea is that
you would be able to say what color and movement of two
different lights here... So we've got a couple sliders on
the
screen, so you can say you want to make it a little more blue.
You can change the amount of red here. And it gets a little more
purple. You can make it a little more red so it's a little
scarier, and we can move this light back and forth and change
the shadows on the screen here. Yeah.
So you can move the shadows back and forth and the idea is that
you would be able to move both slights lights. You've got an
overhead light as well. That's a spotlight.
DANIEL: Do you have a background as a lighting designer?
STUDENT: I did some lighting design in college. I studied
electrical engineering but always loved theater. I wished
there was a way to test out what I was putting on the stage
before I got there. DANIEL: You should definitely
reach out and see if anybody designed it.
STUDENT: I definitely will. Yeah. Thank you so much!
DANIEL: Okay. Tell us your name and a couple sentences about
your project. STUDENT: My name is Tiani.
My project is about using your face to play a video game.
This game is called Smile! And it's a game that forces you to
smile in order to play the game. Would you like to try?
So you just use this camera to look at your face. And in order
to start the game, you have to do this gesture.
Do you want me to demonstrate?
So basically...
You do this. When the game starts, every time that you
smile, it will show the friendliness, so that people who
pass by
-- it takes four friendliness to actually make someone like you.
Oh, no. I missed it. Basically you have to unsmile.
Which is not-smile, to regain the positive energy. So if I do
this person...
This person will become my friend now. So that's basically
how I play this game.
And it requires the player to continue to smile or not smile
in order to play this game. And there's a final challenge based
on how much smile you have. If you made one person like you,
you have to hold your smile for ten seconds. If you made two
people like you, you have to smile for 20 seconds. So the
better you do at the beginning, the harder it is to win the game
at the end. And now my challenge is... I have to keep my smile.
Otherwise, the circle will start shaking. And in that case, I
will lose the game.
Yay! So that's basically how I win the game.
And basically the longest for this game... You have to hold
your smile 30 seconds.
DANIEL: Okay.
Tell us your name and a few sentences about your project.
STUDENT: So my name
is
Anna, I'm second year of ITP, and I'm studying a little bit
more about the AR interfaces. This is one of my projects.
I really love to drink wine. But when I go to a wine store, I'm
not a wine expert.
I'm easily lost and don't know which one I have to buy. So me
and my friends built this AR app, which helps your wine
selection. First of all, you can choose your wine preference
first.
For example, for me, I like medium. And I like vanilla.
And I like a little bit spicy taste.
And then you can search your wine.
Yeah. Okay.
It's not stable.
So this will match with my preference. So this is just
okay.
What about this one? This one also. Zero match with my
preference. So I might go on to buy this one.
That wine bottle will potentially match with my
preferences. Yeah.
DANIEL: All right!
Can you tell us your name? STUDENT: My name is Pablo. I
made this joy detection mirror. It basically uses computer
vision and AI to know what a smile looks like. And if it sees
a smile, it lights up.
And you go through the infinity mirror, all the way to the
vortex. If you get it to smile and light up...
You have the light.
If it doesn't light up, it means you don't have a soul. So you
might check with a doctor.
All right.
I'm happy to gift my M and M to anybody who wants one.
Great job.
DANIEL: You want to tell us about your project?
You did it together? Okay! All right. So introduce yourselves.
STUDENT: I'm Emily. STUDENT: I'm Billy.
STUDENT: We worked on a web and mobile
app that tries to show the relation between sound and
colors. They're both using frequency in the unit of hertz.
There are a couple of different pages...
But here's a page. So the sound isn't working on this. But what
it's doing is these are the color frequencies, and it's
showing the wavelength associated with it. And ideally
it plays the pitch. Okay. You can see it.
EL3015:2128... Index.html. DANIEL: Maybe wait a couple of
hours, everybody. There you go. STUDENT: And you can send some
signals. People can collaboratively draw. It's
supposed to play the pitch.
But people can just make a little party out of the colors.
DANIEL: So this is reading the webcam?
STUDENT: This is reading the webcam values across the
pixelated image.
And it plays different MIDI values based on those... Based
on the pixel data, basically.
So we're kind of mapping the colors to different musical
notes here.
If you turn it on.
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a little bit about your project.
STUDENT: I go by Harry. I'm an ITP first year student and this
is my project that me and Rebecca have been working on,
and it's about how data is getting processed through light,
and
it's about how our daily actions can be
transferred and processed through -- stage by stage.
So if you press a button about your activities, you'll see the
visualization between stage by stage...
For example, I'm pressing a button
about how Facebook is using our dataset, collecting to exchange
and sell to other
advertisement companies, and how the analysis of the dataset in
the end will become an advertisement back to us. Yeah.
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project. STUDENT: My name is Jen. You can
try...
This is kind of like --
it detects
this pattern, and as you get closer, you can control it every
centimeter.
DANIEL: You talk into these -- the microphone for the captioner
who is captioning. STUDENT: Okay.
This is working. Pretty slow, though. Yep.
And it's a little jumpy, because I only used one sensor.
And you can cause the color change. Yeah.
In here, the perfect pattern is like a star.
And you can try to make it.
DANIEL: These are projectors? STUDENT: No, just light. And you
can try to really control it slowly. Like she is here.
But there is a perfect pattern. Thank you!
DANIEL: So just tell us your name and a few sentences about
your project. STUDENT: I'm Stacy.
STUDENT: I'm Honey. STUDENT: I'm Ten-Shu.
STUDENT: This is a wildlife vending machine. We want to
raise awareness of
protecting animals and how endangered animals are failing
right now. You want to try it?
So you can see how many endangered animals are killed
per week right now. Please insert the coin and start your
journey.
You picked the tiger. So here you can see the animation.
The tiger is going into the trap.
They want to get out, but they can't. Because it's already
being killed.
You'll get a product made by the tiger. It's a leather coat.
Also, you'll get information about a tiger.
STUDENT: You are customer 96.
DANIEL: (inaudible) STUDENT: Thank you!
STUDENT: That's our receipt? DANIEL: Oh, you even get a
receipt.
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a couple sentences about your
project. STUDENT: I'm a first year at
ITP. This is called Thirsty Plant.
Thirsty Plant is a Millennial digital plant that's only being
watered by my social media account activities.
So the way that it targets the idea of
how teenagers always pay attention to their likes on the
internet and how this plant always needs water... I can
demonstrate it.
If someone liked my tweet, it goes...
The water starts...
It's a collective light installation
that I want to show people how the light got changed, based on
the time, based on different people on the internet, and
everyone can contribute to this light source. Everybody can do
this. Yeah. DANIEL: Wonderful. Great job.
STUDENT: Thank you!
DANIEL: (inaudible) STUDENT: Okay. Yeah. So hi. I'm
Sai. I'm the community manager. Also here at ITP.
So this project is called the Black projections project. And
basically I built what I call a portal mapping device.
So it's a map that potentially can help you unlock a portal,
and it kind of talks about... Or investigates space, time, and
how those are all connected to a lot of different moments that
are happening.
You basically explore it with a magnet.
You move across the points, and different images are projected
on the screen.
I'm using lead searches. Each circle has a sensor underneath.
And basically when you press a magnet over it, that turns on or
off. And each kind of point has a collection of images that are
then displayed randomly on the screen.
DANIEL: Do you want to demonstrate?
STUDENT: Yeah.
And then you just move across the board.
DANIEL: Okay! Tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project. STUDENT: Hi.
I go by Michelle.
So our projects is called Blue Dots, and it's inspired by an
article called the Pale Blue Dot.
They described the earth as a Pale Blue Dot. It was the first
perspective. And I thought it was very inspiring.
(inaudible)
actually, even though it seemed to be really tiny, but it's
doing a lot to the earth. And so...
On top of the earth, there's a lollipop.
And when you take away the lollipop, it's showing that the
heartbeat actually is being...
Not as wildly as before. And inside the wrap of the loppy
pop, there's a message, telling you that it's representing the
natural resources of lollipop. But it's actually telling you
that you can take away the lollipop, but you don't have to
feel guilty. Because we need to use the natural resources, but
it would be great if you could contribute a little back to the
earth.
So we have a hidden mission in this
wrap that you have to find a white box under the table. And
inside the box... It says...
(inaudible) one lollipop. Put it back. It will become lighted
again. DANIEL: Beautiful, thank you.
Okay. Can you tell me your name and a few sentences about your
project? STUDENT: Okay.
I'm a second year, and I have a light installation which is
based on mathematics.
So here as you can see...
There is an equation which simulates a wave in shallow
water.
It seems to be difficult, but it can be represented by very
simple mathematics. It goes to the closest point in space. And
this wave goes faster.
But a slow wave goes slower.
So this visualization...
The slow wave goes slowly. But the big wave goes faster.
And you can see how this wave goes slowly and this wave goes
faster. And here the slow wave goes slowly, but the big wave
like that goes very fast. And that is the water effect.
And also I have
some error.
(inaudible) it was originally from (inaudible).
So here...
It's Hamaishi City, which suffered a lot.
But people knew that it was scary. So people ran away.
It and 99.8% of people survived.
But here also -- I just... Yeah.
DANIEL: Can we come check out your project? Tell us your names
and a few sentences. STUDENT: The name of our project
is wind, rocks, and women.
And it's about deep sea divers, but it
also includes stories from mothers in mainland Korea as
well.
You can listen to different stories through different
objects, by scanning the tag over here to the side of your
head phones.
My name is Sue. STUDENT: I'm Katie.
STUDENT: Do you want to try? DANIEL: Sure!
STUDENT: So these were interviews taken from Henyo on
the Island.
So it's about how they have a very eco-friendly approach to
deep sea diving.
They make sure they never overharvest, and they have a
collective community.
They never overharvest, they collect trash.
Sadly, this probably is the last generation.
Just because younger women in the island are choosing not to
pursue this profession. It requires years and years of
training.
So we just wanted to give an homage to the different culture
that has developed on the island, where it's more
mayorriarch matriarchal than mainland Korea.
STUDENT: Yeah.
(inaudible)
the traditional patriarchal society.
DANIEL: We've been going for two hours now.
Is everybody okay? I know, I know. Well... Yeah. I don't know
if we can get to... We'll do our best. Okay. We're here.
Tell us your names and a few sentences about your project.
STUDENT: My name is Alberto.
And our project is object tracking installation.
That allows objects to control different types of animations in
realtime. So we have these spheres.
Part of the animation tracker.
STUDENT: The size of the spheres and the brightness of the
spheres.
Thank you!
STUDENT: And you're both working.
STUDENT: We are both working!
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project. STUDENT: I'm Brent and I think
work is for suckers, so I made this game about not working.
It's called Stay in Bed Simulator. The goal is to stay
in bed as long as possible.
The goal is to
And yeah. That's pretty much the whole thing.
DANIEL: What's the record? STUDENT: The record right now is
20,000 points, which is roughly 15 minutes.
Set by our very own Dale Jones. DANIEL: I think I can beat that.
STUDENT: A little hard to right now. Nice quiet room.
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project. STUDENT: I'm David. And this is
my project.
It's about reflecting the website environment as a
physical environment to create a tree based on the website
environment, and make it...
Then generate the image that is representing the environment.
Let the user know that the website they're going to --
exactly like their physical environment. Mentally and
physically. Yeah! I'll show you the tree.
So here's the website. You can go to any website.
You can see it's the reviews here -- it's quite negative.
There it are red leaves.
The entire background is like lightning. It's quite sad to
see.
It shows you that you're going into a scary website right now.
At least scary comments.
And, for example... Articles from politics and stuff... It
takes a while to load. But yeah.
It will create a tree based on the article. It's getting the
analysis.
So the websites have the positive and the negative.
It's more positive and you create a field.
And it has the tree that represents
all the words that go into the website.
DANIEL: Great job! STUDENT: Thank you.
DANIEL: All right. Tell us your name and a few words about your
project.
STUDENT: My name is Julyie Julie and I worked on this with
Isabelle in California. This project is to look at the
absurdity of our faces and how strange we look when our face is
dissected. And how unrecognizable we are.
DANIEL: Should I try this? STUDENT: Yes, you should try it.
DANIEL: Is this your project? Can you tell us your name?
STUDENT: Yeah. My partner isn't here.
This is called Ebb and Flow. And it's a life sculpture.
P a kinetic live sculpture.
Light is always perceived as a static element in the room. So
we want to kind of break the
boundaries and explore light in a more vivid way.
So we're using this to -- it's a
motion, using this motion to recreate
the tangible and natural phenomenon of ebb and flow. So
this is going up and down.
It materializes mineral oil The
material I used was mineral oil and a hanging spotlight. It
creates the effect of sunlight hitting onto the water.
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a couple of words about your
project. STUDENT: My name is Ada. And
this is my project.
It's an audio-enhanced optical illusion.
The visual pattern is a vortex that whose center shifts
depending on where you look at it. The trigger also triggers
audio changes
in the headphones that correspond to the direction of
the moving center of the vortex.
DANIEL: Do you want to try it?
DANIEL: Can you tell us about your project? Are you available?
Tell us your name and a few sentences about your project.
STUDENT: Hi! My name is Sydney, and this is my project here.
It's called autovendor. It's a vending machine. And it's a
project with David Lachlan.
So it is like a fake vending machine. What we're trying to do
here is sell animations. So the slogan for this is...
Snacks and more. Aside from snacks, what do students need
when they're frustrated and hungry? Do you want to give it a
try?
DANIEL: Oh! Yeah. No.
STUDENT: (inaudible)
DANIEL: I'll broadcast my cell phone number! Okay. We're good.
All right. Now I'm gonna hit enter. It's actually gonna
appear there. Okay.
STUDENT: So this was recorded using stop motion. What we're
trying to do here is... Some of the animations are like... We're
trying to think about a concept
of convenience right how it now, and trying to link it with
laziness.
The machine gives you food and eats it, itself. But we showed
this to everybody and they thought the ASMR-like sounds
were very joyful and they thought... You guys should just
make a cute machine that sells animations.
And we tried to make puns off that, so it would give you
encouragement. Thi There are others like... I love you very
matcha. Things like that. It's kind of cute. Thank you!
DANIEL: Okay. Tell us. We'll go watch it operate. But can you
just tell us your name? STUDENT: Sure. My name is Rita,
and this project is in
collaboration with Max de Silva. It's kind of a choose your own
adventure poem.
You can see here -- you start it by saying "hi, sailors". And
it'll give you a list of questions you can ask. And it
will give you a story that will change every time.
You have to say "hi, sailors" to start it.
SPEAKER: Hi, sailors!
SPEAKER: Who are you?
Why are you?
Where are you?
Why did you leave?
S
DANIEL: Will you demonstrate your project for us?
STUDENT: Sure. DANIEL: Why don't you come here?
It's a little quieter. Just tell us your name and a couple
sentences about your project.
STUDENT: My project is an orange juice squeezer.
And my project is a small interaction
project, which has visuals, sound, and smell coming out.
DANIEL: It smells so good in here! Can you demo it for us?
STUDENT: Yeah.
This is fake orange. That's it. On the squeezer, there is juice
coming out and smell coming too.
DANIEL: There's no real oranges in this room?
STUDENT: Yeah.
DANIEL: Whoa! Okay. Tell us your name and a few sentences about
your project. STUDENT: My name is Tyler. This
is really self-explanatory, but I created this goal stoppers
project,
running off of posenet and p5, and basically you use your hands
to stop the ball from getting into the goal.
I'm a big soccer fan, and I thought something like this
would be cool to help goalies train and get their agility
going. I thought it would be pretty cool. So this is my
project. DANIEL: Will you play it for us?
STUDENT: Yeah, sure.
Honestly, I'm not that good at it.
(inaudible)
DANIEL: Good job!
All right. Tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project.
STUDENT: My project is saying that you cannot make a circle
without using a ruler.
So it means you cannot make something if you don't follow
some rules. So I wanted to explore that definition. And the
space between definitions and ambiguity.
So I tried to translate it into sound, and visuals.
So I wanted to translate between the square and a circle.
The visual field is translated into the sound wave.
So if from a square wave to a circle, more like a sine wave.
So that's the basic idea.
Behind this.
DANIEL: Is this projecting a rectangle moving back and forth?
STUDENT: Projecting a line.
DANIEL: Great job! STUDENT: Thanks!
Yes, excellent.
DANIEL: So tell us your name and a sentence about your project.
STUDENT: I'm Skyler. This is my project. I call it Liquid
Relationships. And it's about connecting with other people.
DANIEL: What's the best way to do it?
STUDENT: It's so get to get on and do it.
DANIEL: We're completing a circuit?
STUDENT: This is a fish tank I had as a kid.
DANIEL: Really? Wild.
STUDENT: Just a little pressure. It doesn't take a lot.
DANIEL: Good job.
So it's very hard to show the VR projects.
You want to stand next to each other? So we can see this in
action? Tell us your names. STUDENT: Hi. My name is Sai. And
this is our project. It's a two-way shadow wall. Where you
see the shadow of yourself and also the shadow of the person
behind it.
When your two shadows overlap, it creates things.
This adds different filters into it.
So you can manipulate the space and just have fun with it. It's
a different way of playing with the visual area.
STUDENT: You guys want to try it?
DANIEL: Sure! Okay. I'm just gonna hold the mic. You can hold
these.
If you say anything about the project... Say it into there.
There's live captioning.
STUDENT: When you don't overlap each other, it stops playing the
music. And when you do, it starts. It triggers the sound.
It's just a webcam. So yeah. Yeah.
DANIEL: Amazing. Good job. STUDENT: Thanks so much!
A DANIEL: Here we go. Only four
and a half hours in.
It's been two hours. All right. Tell us your names. And a few
sentences about your project. STUDENT: Hi. I'm Tina.
STUDENT: I'm Christina. STUDENT: And this project is
called one amongst many.
It's a data visualization. DANIEL: Should we try walking
around through it?
You can show us various aspects of it.
STUDENT: As you pick up these orbs, you
can see every woman that we chose in a cohort with a bunch
of other women. Computer scientists, mathematicians.
As you pick an orb up and read about a certain woman, other
women in her cohort
will also illuminate, and as the orbs are interacted with over
time, they get incrementally brighter.
So the orbs that have been read a lot
will sort of increase in visibility, and you can also see
other orbs that have been read a little bit less.
These are based chronologically, on their years of
accomplishments, and
their heights are based on the number of links that show how
famous they are. So the least famous are lower to give more
accessibility to the audience for their information. Our whole
concept is to kind of give more visibility to these women and
inspire young people to get into the field of computing.
Because us as creators, we felt like we still didn't know about
these women until we did this project. It was a shame, but it
was really awesome. And we want to inspire the young people
here. DANIEL: Can you tell us really
briefly about it?
STUDENT: So this is a sticker board.
Our idea is to kind of have a piece of the project where the
audience can leave a mark of their own.
These are the four categories that are represented within our
project.
And we want people in the project to identify themselves
with one of these circles.
A computer scientist, mathematician, creative, or
executive.
DANIEL: Thank you! Great job. STUDENT: Thank you!
DANIEL: Introduce yourselves and tell us a little bit about your
project. STUDENT: I'm Gill. I'm a first
year at ITP.
This is the interactive scroll.
So it's designed to allow someone to interact with an
ancient scroll. Physically.
So you can use these rods to scroll through.
We have a bunch of different ancient texts here, which are in
Hebrew.
And then this allows you to translate as you're reading it.
If you can't read the Hebrew language,
the text isn't legible, this allows you to read. And you can
scroll a little further.
Some more reading.
So yeah.
This was the project. Just a sort of basic interaction
design.
Should I keep going?
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project. STUDENT: I'm Nick.
These are conversations, which are between two hanging lamps.
Each of these two lamps emit light
, so these would be tools for listening.
To keep a room lit PWHAOEUL while also having a
conversation, you would switch
off between talking and producing the light. So this is
the main switch point for the interaction.
STUDENT: This is the hourglass.
There's climate change-related data correlated to this
sculpture. Do you want to do the honors? Or should I do it
myself?
So this is a statistic related to bees. The bee disappointed
off the face of the earth. Humans have only four years left
to live. There's static ones, and these require some user
input. This is meant to visualize rising sea levels.
So you can use a slider to demonstrate that.
This is the approximate hue of the Flint river water during the
crisis.
This is the water coming out of people's faucets. This checks
air quality of any city in the world. Want to give me a city?
This is showing Paris right now. DANIEL: New York.
STUDENT: You can also put in spang hig
Shanghai, for example, and get a not so good value in return.
It's been a little bit terrifying seeing people laugh
at that all day, because it's actually terrifying.
And a couple more statistics-related visuals.
And that is about it
. Let me slide around.
I attached pixel strips on the outside. And this motor down
here -- it allows me to spin it at 450 rotations per minute.
Which gives the illusion of these two globes. Thank you!
Appreciate it.
DANIEL: We like the authentic experience! Good.
STUDENT: So this is our program.
DANIEL: Okay.
Just tell us your names and a few sentences about your
project. STUDENT: I'm Nicole.
STUDENT: And this is our lenticular portal room. We're
doing experiments with the lenticular lens.
This stretches and magnifies the light. We're doing different
experiments. We have a three-dimensional box, moving
lenses that are rotating.
And then these sunrises over the ocean.
STUDENT: And also looking at the lens when it's perpendicular to
a light source... Kind of creating an infinite color
field. If you look through it.
And depending on how you're looking at
it, you can see that the light kind of creates these pillars,
and bending throughout the shapes.
DANIEL: There's nothing in the box?
STUDENT: There's nothing in the box. Shall we do the reveal?
What actually is inside? It's an empty box! The secret is
revealed!
But there's a thousand LEDs in here.
STUDENT: This is not lenticular.
This is called dichroic film.
And depending on the material, a different wavelength of light is
refracted. You can change the speed down here.
Change it from almost video to stop motion.
DANIEL: Will you folks introduce yourselves briefly and tell us a
few sentences about your project?
STUDENT: I'm Wen. I'm from Taiwan.
STUDENT: I'm from Korea. STUDENT: So this is a system
that is based on word recognition. You can choose a
word from a library we built and say it into a microphone and see
how it goes.
DANIEL: Rainbow. STUDENT: Yeah. You can say it
again. DANIEL: Rainbow.
Revolution!
STUDENT: So this installation is about the power of words.
Because sometimes it's not as visible, because people just
ignore it. And we want to emphasize that this is so
strong. People should be responsible for it. And you
should be aware of it. DANIEL: Great job. Thank you.
Can you tell us about your project?
STUDENT: The idea of this project is to
let people interact with what they're doing in routine life.
And then be aware of it.
Because normally sometimes people are not paying attention.
So this is the original idea of this project. We made a box
which can reflect what people are doing in it their daily
life.
So we have some of the interaction in a real sized
room. Every interaction they're doing in the room will be
reflected in this small box.
My name is Dong-Kwe. STUDENT: I'm also on this
project.
You can go in, but it's one person at a time.
DANIEL: Do you want to just take the camera in?
(music)
DANIEL: Can you introduce yourselves and tell us a few
sentences about the project?
STUDENT: The project is called Fever Dream.
I'm gonna read off the thing.
It is an experimental light therapy to induce the
participant into a fever dream and into another person's
memories. It's based off a personal experience I had with a
fever dream.
And delves into an experience where people can try to be in
that fever dream. Yeah.
It's based off of a project that I did
called Deforming Reality, the class that's taught by Andrew
Schneider. Best class I took at ITP. It just started now, if you
want to go in.
DANIEL: Can you tell us a couple sentences about your project?
Stand next to each other. STUDENT: P Hey, guys. How is it
going?
(inaudible)
so as you can see, with when we had the
door open, (inaudible) and you can see (inaudible).
And if I keep making noise again and making conversation...
(inaudible) keep quiet again.
The inspiration (inaudible) technology
students, we (inaudible) talking machines.
And so (inaudible)...
DANIEL: Thank you so much.
STUDENT: (inaudible) solidarity with
sexual assault victims (inaudible)
DANIEL: What is the process of interacting with the project?
It's headphones? Okay.
STUDENT: I can just play a the audio.
DANIEL: I think we'll just get some shots of the project.
Is there a place where we can find out more about your work
online? STUDENT: Yeah, sure.
Basically (inaudible)
.
STUDENT: And if you get the words wrong, you'll hear some
really annoying high pitched beeping. Yeah. I'm not sure.
Yeah. DANIEL: I just kind of forgot
what was going on.
Did you turn it up all the way?
STUDENT: Sexual assault victims in the country have found it
difficult to get their voices out. As they are going up
against not just a male dominated culture, but also the
government censorship.
The following experience might you
cause emotional distress, as it addresses sexual violence. If
you believe you will find the experience to be traumatizing,
you can choose not to participate. If you're willing
to proceed, read this paragraph out loud.
Repeat the words if you get stuck until the words are
highlighted. After you're done, share your thoughts with us.
(beeping)
STUDENT: Now take a moment to reflect on the experience.
You can scan the QR code.
DANIEL: Thank you.
DANIEL: All right. Can you tell us your name and say a little
bit about your project? STUDENT: Sure.
Our project is basically...
We want to bring our beloved childhood games from the street
out into the real world.
So this comes from Mario Kart 64.
This is Chomp. And he basically sleeps as long as he's left
alone. He doesn't detect people in front of him.
But as soon as he gets any movement or presses, he'll wake
up.
He'll wake up, open his eyes, and bark at people. He's really
cranky that you woke him up. You shouldn't have woken him up. And
that's about what he does. DANIEL: Should I wake him up?
STUDENT: Oh, he's up now.
Chain Chomp!
STUDENT: DANIEL: Can you tell us your
name? STUDENT: Yeah.
I work on this project with Noah, and we made a heart that
beats to the beat of your own pulse. There's a monitor on the
outside and
there's a motor inside, the elastic heart. Just put your
index finger on the pulse sensor, and then you can see
your pulse
beat in realtime in a heart. Yeah.
DANIEL: I like that you have these freezer bags here. To keep
it alive. STUDENT: Like transplants.
(inaudible).
DANIEL: What is it made out of? STUDENT: Silicon.
DANIEL: Great job. Okay.
DANIEL: You can just move the camera around.
DANIEL: Okay.
DANIEL: The whole world is waiting!
Tell us. Introduce yourself. Come on out. So you can both be
standing there. Tell us your names.
STUDENT: I'm Eric.
STUDENT: I'm Abby. STUDENT: I'm Sammy.
STUDENT: This is our Steampunk popcorn machine.
coffee machine. Sometimes you don't know how much coffee you
need.
You answer a couple of questions and it will tell you how much
coffee you might want that day and the type of coffee. And the
machine gets your water from here, and you can get the
perfect measurement for your coffee. Would you like to have a
few? STUDENT: Yeah.
So if you go ahead -- you can answer the first question.
I've got three options. From great to dead, basically. How
strong you like your coffee.
Whether you want a subtle to bold cup.
And what kind of roast profile you prefer. Light, medium, or
dark.
We have three types of beans from Brooklyn Roasting Company.
Based off of your responses to some of those questions, the
three questions, on the first LED screen you would get a
display of which type of coffee to use and how many grams and
then you weigh out the amount of coffee right on the scale.
Now we've basically put the coffee into this filter here and
are doing pourover cup to brew the coffee.
DANIEL: You can set it up... We'll do one inside here.
STUDENT: Our project is called Besa, which means composition in
Turkish. This is basically a musical instrument that has
eight different monophonal synthesizers.
And we also have a realtime recordable sequencer. Can I show
you quickly?
I'm gonna clear them. You can clear them by double tapping.
And how it works is you just turn on the metronome and while
holding down the clip, you...
And then it will be recorded.
And then you can even record your music in realtime too.
And then each row represents different patterns.
So you can record different patterns. And then arrange them
in realtime.
So it's like a live performance, I will say.
All right.
We'll say goodbye.
For a minute here...... DANIEL: We're gonna do these two
classrooms. I'll walk downstairs and see a few projects that are
on display there, and say goodbye. Everybody okay?
We all need a drink, but I don't know what we're gonna do about
that. Okay.
STUDENT: This project is called Light.
It's about physical separation.
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project.
STUDENT: I'm Fernando, and I'm creating a character called the
Firebird.
To embody the character, imagine it in a performing arts context.
Depending on the gestures you make, you get a different sound.
And also you change the position of this 3D object. And you can
change the color of the object.
Making different gestures related to the narrative that
you're creating.
So you can make fire and you get a red object or you can make a
tree and you get a green object and you make like this, and this
is bird. So you can fly.
You can embody the Firebird and fly around, carrying this...
Seed that is inside the belly of the Firebird.
DANIEL: Thank you so much. STUDENT: Thank you yo guys.
DANIEL: Introduce yourself and we'll see your project.
STUDENT: I'm Sam. STUDENT: I'm Tien-Shu.
DANIEL: You teleported from over there!
STUDENT: I'm Abby.
So this is our concentration game.
Do we have a participant? DANIEL: This it is an EEG in a
watch receptor. Four electrodes built in here. It's going to
read the electrode activity inside of his brain and he's
going to manipulate a JavaScript animation. Awesome.
The fireflies are trapped in this jar. Do you want to start
the game? Let the fireflies go! Awesome. So we've got fireflies
on the screen.
The fireflies are gonna come together.
When Patrick is not concentrating, they're gonna
hang out like this. So we'll start the transmission.
STUDENT: We have a prompt in the middle of the screen. Count to
five. Prompts are different for everyone. So if you want to help
focus, you can look on that one or look at the screen, think
about something you've done during the day. These are all
different techniques you can use to help focus.
STUDENT: It doesn't happen on the first try. Don't worry. It's
really just the device.
And we've also got some brainwaves that are making these
pulses in a certain way. The fireflies.
DANIEL: Thank you.
Tell us your name. Introduce yourself.
STUDENT: Hi.
My name is Cindy, and this is my project, called Calm.
It's an immersive mindfulness based experience where a person
is wearing an EEG headset that's wirelessly connected to my
phone, so they're actually controlling the visualizations
as well as the lights with their mind. If somebody is in an
unfocused state, you can see the lights are flickering, as well
as the visualizations, and when you're in a more focused state
of mind, the lights turn blue, as well as the screen. So I'm
really interested in wellness in
tech and how we might use tech to help ourselves. Instead of
using tech as a form of escapism, I want to use tech to
get more in touch with yourself. So I do things like this.
I launched a company called Design Life Well at
designlifewell.com.
Where you can use binaural sounds to help get more in touch
with yourself to manifest your dreams. Thank you so much!
DANIEL: It must be hard to get that feeling in a place like
this. STUDENT: It is.
DANIEL: But you've done a great job.
STUDENT: Great job.
DANIEL: Tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project.
STUDENT: This is sacred temple of cerebral serenity.
And it's an environment that tries to focus on the feminine
sides of your brain, which is the ability to birth, spread,
and nourish an idea. There are a few ways to interact with it.
One of them is...
Oh, a compassionate mirror! Make a face...
A variety of flattering light parameters... And also...
You will get a cosmic complement.
You are as mystical as a planet. Have no doubt. Let your brain
shimmer.
And there's a lot of machine learning.
Used to generate visuals.
Motion capture.
Many robots helped me make this. DANIEL: Quite a delightful
corner. STUDENT: I know.
I love it so much that I want to have visitors.
DANIEL: Good job. Thank you.
We're doing so well, everybody.
More projects!
Can you just give us a quick spiel? Introduction? And we'll
move around the room and catch glimpses of the performance?
STUDENT: Yeah, sure. DANIEL: First introduce yourself
and tell us about the project. STUDENT: My name is Topher
Blair. This was my final for Image Processing last spring. I
wasn't able to present then, but I've got to here now.
There's a little diorama with sliding pieces that can move in
and out.
Depending on the actual scene. And there's kind of a story that
tells us about the cycle of resource consumption.
And how all these three environments interact with each
other, feed into each other, and there's a system that works
beautifully together.
DANIEL: Why don't we let you get going?
STUDENT: Yeah.
I made a forest.
So those elements indicate abstract traits.
So if I'm in a different position, I'm making a different
space, which can give people a look inside of the tree.
So the idea of the project is that some human beings are part
of nature.
And also that trees are a part of nature as well. So among the
elements of nature, it
could be exchangeable, replaceable, and yeah.
So inside of the space, how they feel it...
How nature reacts with human beings, breathing as well. So
actually...
While it's breathing, the (inaudible)...
Yeah. If . There we go.
The trees are synchronized -- the trees try to synchronized
human beings' breathing space.
Yes. Thank you!
DANIEL: Just tell us your name and a few sentences about your
project. STUDENT: I made a cube.
Basically how it works is that this is
an electromagnet, and I'm running
current through it, and this is a
neodymium magnet, and it's basically
creating
this -- when I'm placing it here, this LED will turn on,
which is how you know the sweet spot, and I'm able to control
the distance through the potentiometer. Really finicky,
but cool. Before it was like... If I would move it too close, it
would start to go crazy and stick. Yeah.
Absolutely. Yeah.
So if I had a bigger electromagnet, it could carry a
pound, two pounds, three pounds. This can carry about an ounce.
So a piece of toast.
DANIEL: Can you introduce yourselves and say a couple
sentences?
STUDENT: Our project is called color field.
And it is an interactive light display, where the controller
can't see what they're manipulating on the screen. And
the viewer can't see what the controller is doing.
So for their communication, they use the light display.
STUDENT: And we saw some people choose a word and have a quick
conversation about how that word looks like for them.
When they sit at their stations, either at the controller or the
viewer, they're trying to come together with the common
goal of having the screen show the color, composition of colors
that they talked about to represent the word.
STUDENT: It's successful, yeah.
DANIEL: You guys want to try?
STUDENT: Yellow, orange, red. Purple.
I think purple is great.
Yellow. Orange. Red.
I'm seeing green. I'm seeing red.
DANIEL: What are we aiming for? Purple?
STUDENT: Okay. DANIEL: Those are the controls.
DANIEL: STUDENT: Can we make more of
these rectangles?
You're making more rectangles now.
DANIEL: Great job. Okay. We saw all the projects!
So I think what we can do is go downstairs. We don't need to
interview everybody. We can just see everything and look around
and listen. And then we will... Yeah.
Yeah.
So we'll take the stairs and see how that goes. We might lose our
Wi-Fi. That's the other thing. Who knows what's gonna happen
Wi-Fiwise i-wise in the lobby. Although presumably they're all
using Wi-Fi. All right. Down the stairs we go.
Maybe we'll come up with a plan next time.
Okay.
It's not recording. It's streaming.
Do you want to say your name and tell us a couple sentences about
what you're doing? STUDENT: This is my project.
As you can see, it's a very physical... It's for musical
expression. So we built our own musical instrument. And then we
perform it.
So my performance did not look like this. But it's also a very
physical performance.
You can RAEFP reach a lot of dissonant, interesting, chaotic
sounds.
(no audio)
(strange noises)
is DANIEL: Can you tell us your
name and a couple sentences about the project?
Can you perform it for us?
(sustained notes)
DANIEL: Thank you so much. Beautiful.
Can you introduce yourself and give us a couple of sentences?
STUDENT:
(inaudible)
(buzzing noise)
(applause)
DANIEL: Hello! Awesome. Can you tell us... Just introduce
yourself real quick and then we'll check out your project?
STUDENT: My name is Douglas.
Here I am with MIDIBlade, and I'm using
the electronic sport of fencing as my influence for finding
expression from combat to a musical output.
And the human body is a great base for musical expression.
DANIEL: Show us how it works! STUDENT: My basic model here...
I'm running an Arduino Nano through
Bluetooth BLE, and I have it set up so that the pitch and the
roll... The roll changes my notes.
The rotation of my wrist.
And then as I pitch up or pitch down, that changes the register.
And the octave.
Can I have a volunteer?
DANIEL: And what happens if you move slow and try to find some
expression in each position? STUDENT: Like if you go low, I
go high...
Now let's try going this way.
DANIEL: Sword play! Musical composition!
Every time you play, you'll have a new
generateive composition as the output!
STUDENT: Thank you so much for stopping by.
DANIEL: I don't know how many projects that was. You're the
very last one.
Let's give a big thank you to everybody who has been helping
with this.
Jesse? There you go! Chelsea. Shooting some B-roll here. Show
producer. Patrick. Thank you, everyone.
Thank you, everyone, for tuning into the live stream. Of the
ITP/IMA winter show. I would say come and see it, but there's
only about an hour and a half left, so unless you're in the
immediate Brooklyn area -- but there will be another show in
May. You can find out about the programs here at itp.nyu.
edu, and slash ima for the undergraduate program. Thank you
so much for watching. We'll have to go all the way upstairs to
the computer to shut this off. But we're gonna stop streaming.
So it might appear paused for a little while. And thanks,
everybody! Bye!