I’m currently taking Digital Art with Leslie Sharpe. For the first assignment, I created an environmentalist satire of a discount electronics store. Our second assignment is to work with Flash as an artistic medium.
While working with Emotive Or Not, I developed a small fascination with web cams. Seeing nothing barring the situation, I choose to continue with that fascination for the second assignment. Below are my two studies for this project.
Ready Set Go - Flash Webcam Motion Detection Dance Music Toy
I have a piece appearing in the Photography and DART Area Show tonight at 7pm in the SOFA Gallery at IU-Bloomington. It’s the first time I’ve had anything in a proper art show.
The piece I have is called Discount Electronics. It’s a satire of consumer electronics websites. As one interacts with the site, it starts to degenerate until it becomes an unusable mess, revealing the mess consumerism produces.
I’ve been working on this concept for a while, but today I finally completed a function prototype. Basically, The Creatulator combines semiotics and ambiguous computing. It prompts the visitor with three random images and two (somewhat) logical operators, and asks them to make meaning of it. Users can then rate these meanings. It’s not suppose to be an example of human-centered design, but rather a piece of design criticism itself to see how these ideas can be used.
Last year Phoebe Sengers came to speak in a colloquium hosted by my department and also came to talk to our class. I was so inspired by her talk on ambiguous computing that during the middle of lecture I started creating my own prototype to test with people. Its called Blocks. Basically, I like showing it to people and seeing how they react to it, a small web app that has no predefined goal.
Some of my favorites: writing your own name, trying to make all the blocks either black or white, and drawing pictures.
