Interactive City: SLC in You

Installation Process Our installation was very simple. We attached each mosaic print to to the wall with tape. For the wall text, we printed out the question “Do you see yourself in SLC? Do you see SLC in yourself?” This…

Interactive City: Fill My Heart <3

For project 2 I have decided to create a Love catcher designed with a mix of analogue and digital experience. The love catcher is in a form of Love meter that physically show the invisible emotion called love. Love is always…

Interactive City: Opposite of Ephemeral

For project 2, I have chosen to create an ethereal space with a dream-catcher-like theme. I’m going to be installing in the media lab in Heimbold. I’m creating the feel with lots of yarn all over the room, water-color-type colors…

Interactive City: Emotion Catcher Proposal

For project #2, I will create an interactive analog experience for the user. In class, we discussed the ability to catch, trap, or preserve things that normally could not be contained. My project, Emotion Catcher, will consist of 3 jars,…

Interactive City: Stress Catcher

For project two, we are planning to make a stress catcher. The design of the project will be to have an electronic representation of bubbles.  Within each bubble, there will be an image or word that conveys something stressful. For…

Interactive City: Spend Time

Full view Close up on one screen In class we discussed the fun of capturing something that isn’t visible. Time is one of those concepts that we can feel and experience but we can’t really see. I thought it would…

Interactive City: Raining Wall

In a typical urban setting, you never know who have set foot on the brick you just stepped on, or how crowded the place have been. These are the invisible trails of urban activities, and a public domain successfully makes…

Interactive City: Can You See the Real Me?

Can You See the Real Me was installed in Heimbold Cafe on March 7th.  It took about an hour to install. Sophia and I took photos of people in Heimbold on Thursday, Friday, and Monday.  We then installed the photos…

Interactive City: Photomosaic

After the in-class critique, we decided to make a few changes to our project. Originally, we had planned on creating two photographic mosaics that formed one large photo of a student and one large photo of the SLC campus. We…

Interactive City: Your Pick

After the critique, we decided to display one juxtaposition each day over the week. We will start with pancakes or waffles on Tuesday, March 8, and then Mac or Windows, money or happiness, and Republicans or Democrats. We wanted the…

Interactive City: Can you see the real me?

Display of the wall Over the last two weeks, we have been working together and as a class to revise and enhance the final outcome of our analog project entitled “Can You see the real me?”. When we presented it…

Interactive City: What’s Your Love Story

“What’s your love story?” was uninstalled today. It had a wonderful run!  We installed the Friday before Valentine’s Day, painting a broken heart across from a full heart in a small hallway in Heimbold.  The hearts were both pink.  The…

Interactive City: Dog vs. Cat

Visual Aspects Our installation will feature two screen both installed with mouse, where one featuring an image of a dog rendered through processing, while the other will feature an image of a cat. The images will feature small movements, such…

Interactive City: Your Pick

The Juxtaposition The juxtaposition is created by two commonplace objects and concepts that have similarities but also substantial differences that set them apart. The commonplace objects and concepts are things that people would have different opinions on. The comparisons that…

Interactive City: The Social Curtain

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ~Aristotle Onassis Main Idea Our project will show innocent things being forced to grow up, purity being tainted, and natural things being mutated or dying out. The…

Interactive City: Who benefits the most? The student or the institution?

Visual Aspects: In the project “Who benefits the most? The student or the institution?,” the juxtaposition of the two different groups of people are shown through the use of photographic mosaics. On the left, an image of a student will…

Interactive City: Can you see the real me?

Visual Aspects This project entitled “Can you see the Real Me?” uses juxtaposition of two images in order to create an impactful divide between how the world sees someone and how they see themselves. There will be two Polaroid pictures…

Interactive City: The Jackpot

Visual Aspects The juxtaposition is created through visual representation of slot machines. As one of the most popular gambling method, the slot machine is easy to play and appeals to passersby: the only thing you have to do is pull down the…

Playable Buildings: Hallucination Room

I grounded my thoughts for this project in two fragments of theory: “The future is necessarily monstrous, the figure of the future, that is, that which can only be surprising, that for which we are not prepared, you see, is…

Interactive City: VIP

The goal of my project is to create a sense of otherness using familiar objects that we associate with social divisions. Making use of red velvet rope and a red runner carpet, the idea is to divide a hallway in…