Month: November 2014

Remix the City: Conference Project Post #1 — Glitch Collage

For my conference project, I am going to make a photo collage of Heimbold loosely inspired by the style of Dada photo collaging. The aesthetic of Dada photo collaging embraces chance, accident and improvisation which are all important themes when…

Remix the City: Sticker Project — IKEA Logo

I started my Sticker Champaign Project with confusions. After seeing some urban interference examples of reframing during the seminars and in the textbook. I started gather some idea for making a poster or advertisement form of reframing. Being interested by…

Remix the City: Space HiJack — Donuts

For my space intervention assignment I decided to fill a box with donuts and hide it somewhere in the main lobby of Heimbold. What inspired me to use donuts as my point of intervention for this box assignment was the…

Remix the City: Space HiJack — BIZARREBAZAAR BOX

My box project was funny. When I thought about what makes me happy, I said dressing up. I love clothes. I love everything about a dressing room littered with textiles. So I wanted to create a dressing room. On gimp…

Remix the City: Comment — Cardboard Apartment on the Subway

Someone built a cardboard apartment on the subway!

Games from Nothing: Black and White Exercise #2 — Monster in the Village

For my second game I included a ‘monster’ and three ‘children’. The monster comes out at night and disappears in the day. At night it chases the children represented by circles and attempts to eat them. There is an element of…

Games from Nothing: Design Notes — Early vs Late Reset

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #3 — Pendulum Ride

Madeline Dupre This is a fairly simple demonstration of translation and rotation. I simply used those techniques to create a very simple representation of the theme-park “pendulum” style rides. The square, line, and circle all rotate in unison, while the…

Remix the City: Space HiJack — Our Secret Plan

Dear All, We’ll install our hijack on Monday, November 10th. Please update us on your part of the project by posting here to the class sketchbook, subject line: Space HiJack. *** Carboard Sofa

Remix the City: Sticker Project — Nespresso to the People!

The evolution of my sticker project was sort of wild. When I first decided to do a nespresso campaign i really hadn’t worked anything else out, except I knew I wanted to utilize humor because I am no artist, and the…

Remix the City: Questions of Space

How do we define spaces by function? Are spaces of transition not spaces of functionality? Are spaces not born out of tradition? Can spaces be redefined by a changing context? Are spaces stable? Are spaces in flux? How do we…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #1 — Pentagon

I had trouble deciding what I wanted to create after being given this prompt, because there were so many options. I decided to create “Pentagon,” a game in which a player used objects to move other objects. My game starts…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #2 — A Monstrous Narrative

When I first approached the prompt for this exercise, I was stumped as to how I could possibly represent all the different events of the narrative using only simple shapes and little color. After tinkering with the code for quite…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #1 — Symmetry

Symmetry is a grayscale game that incorporates four circles. Using sinusoidal movement they gradually move up and down the screen. As they move, the circles strobe, increasing and decreasing their radius. The goal is to tap the screen when the…

Remix the City: Comment — Formulary for a New Urbanism

The first issue that Chtcheglov addresses is the concept of being bored with the city: we know how to “read every promise in faces” and we have to “strain to discover the mysteries on sidewalk billboards”. Even when taking into…

Remix the City: Questions of Space

Is space a physical thing? In which all physical things are to be located? Are there areas where space doesn’t exist? Does space exist everywhere? What distinguishes different spaces? What determines where one space ends and another begins? Is authority…

Remix the City: Questions of Space

Is space a quantifiable thing, or simply a human construction? If it is an idea developed by people, do all people conceive of space in the same way? Even within a single individual is the definition of space malleable? For…