Month: November 2014

Games from Nothing: Group Game #2 — Attendance

In our group game, rather than choose between designing a simulation based on behavior or designing a game with a goal state, Ben and I decided to combine the two. We designed our game “Attendance” to make players understand and…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #4 — Particles

For the particles lab I didn’t make so much a game as a digital toy to play with. The game starts with this cool image. The green circles are all orbiting the red circle using the solar system code, with…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #3 — Spinner

For my amusement park ride I thought that the best thing to do with matrices was spinning. The push and pop matrix format worked really well for rotations, so I came up with this. The black squares on the outside…

Remix the City: Conference Project Post #2 — Valuation Exercise

Since starting my conference I have seen a need to shift towards a new idea. Originally, I was thinking about commodity and personal agency over one’s art, however I struggled to find a productive goal for the project which I…

Remix the City: Conference Project Post #2 — A Formal Dinner

I decided to save some money and get the materials I need from home over break. We have an abundance of decadent silverware and dishware that my family wouldn’t mind me using. I have one friend who has agreed to…

Remix the City: Comment — Ornamentation, People and Play

Art can extend the cooperative qualities of nature into social life. All that we know about life is that it is an organized movement – It is chaos and complexity. The aesthetic begins by organizing the powers of matter and…

Remix the City: Comment — Jean-Paul Sartre and the Dérive

Sartre’s example of a intuition is telling “remove the prohibition to circulate in the streets after curfew, and what meaning can there be fore me to have the freedom… to take a walk at night?” Sartre goes out for a…

Remix the City: Conference Project Post #2 — Glitched Heimbold

I have made a lot of progress on my conference work since the first wordpress assignment. Most recently (as in 5 minutes ago), I purchased several materials that I will need for the installation of my photo collage. Such supplies…

Remix the City: Comment — Extreme Aesthetics

Concrete Design — Arises out of its own means and laws, without these having to be derived or borrowed from natural phenomena. This term is important. It lends itself to the idea of social conditioning, which pushes beyond the idea of naturalness….

Remix the City: Space HiJack — Thoughts to Share/Thoughts to Discard

For my box project I made a couple of boxes  for people to put their thoughts into. I left slips of paper and labeled the boxes ‘thoughts to discard’ and ‘thoughts to share’. These labels were intentionally open ended in order…

Remix the City: Conference Project Post #1 — Do You Control Space?

For our (Grace and Mathilde) conference project, we want to make a sticker story, explaining what Remix The City is, and the notions of space. The notions of space as in how we interact with it and how it impacts…

Remix the City: Conference Project Post #1 — Do You Control Space?

For our (Grace and Mathilde) conference project, we want to make a sticker story, explaining what Remix The City is, and the notions of space. The notions of space as in how we interact with it and how it impacts…

Remix the City: Comment — Formulary for a New Urbanism

Today our culture and society is built around similarity and familiarity. We know what to expect everyday, what we are going to do, and who and what we are going to hear and see. Most of a daily activities are…

Remix the City: Questions of Space

Is space tangible? Is space intangible? Does space have monetary value? Who determines if a space is public or private? Where is ‘your’ space? What makes it ‘your’ space? Who calls is ‘your’ space? Who determines whose space is whose?…

Remix the City: Learning Kinetic Type!

Our awesome class!

New Obsession: Young Hae Chang

Remix the City: Space HiJack — “Disco Cube”

For my box, I wanted to do something fun and interactive, that would make people smile. When we first got given the project I planned to do something with packaging, e.g. fragile stickers, heavy stickers and bubble wrap, however I…

Remix the City: My Sketchbook — Collection Assignment

My collection assignment of three things – five instances are shown below: My first collection is wrapping paper on food or drinks bottles, which contains FIGI, S.PELLEORINO, TOSTITOS, PERRIER, and Coca Cola. For me, the significant about this collection is…

Remix the City: Space HiJack — Smoke Free SLC

For my box project, I really wanted to make something playable that would fit our “playable city” chapter. I love the idea of subtle interventions in a building or a city that people can play with/have fun with, but mostly…

Remix the City: Comment — David Finklestein Improv Session

  Today the class got a visit from performer/director David Finkelstein of the Lake Ivan Performance Group. We viewed David’s experimental film “Invincible City” — then  learned a bit about the techniques of using space, the picture plane, and an…