A Story is Not a Tree

“Climb” is a single-player game that uses keyboard as the main input. The player acts as the character at the bottom of the screen, and the goal is to climb up to reach the dotted line.  The character’s arms and…

After reviewing the labs our initial ideas were brought to fruition, such as randomly generated objects of which determined the speed of our bad guy (though from the first set of labs this mechanic was not yet available). We were…

IonRush (click for .zip) Ion Rush is a game of patience and timing. It forces the player to pay attention to the enemies’ patterns in order to proceed. Each “laser beam” flickers (at a constant rate) between two colors –…

This is a work in process. It’s a map about the places I’ve lived and the journey to finding home. The map key represents the things I was feeling in the various places.

For my self portrait I was heavily inspired by Eastern traditional methods of understanding the self and the human body. I feel that our highest selves our defined more so by our energy systems and the natural elements that form our…

For this map, I wanted to start with concrete places I felt were important to me and work out a way of assembling them in a way representative of myself and my experiences. By and large I think one of…

Final Map: Sketch: My decision making process is actually pretty simple. My initial idea was to simple mapping out my thoughts and images in my head. The reason I want to achieve a map totally out of my head is…

Work Narrative: When I initially sat down at my desk to sketch my self portrait map I was immediately distracted by the web of unfinished art and bundles of treasured material that litter my desk. As I (thought that) I…

This piece began with the idea that I could map the experience I have while I listen to music. I began by writing down all of the thoughts/feelings/pictures which came to mind during various listening sessions, or other moments where I…

Preliminary photo and painting (sketches): Sign system: Connection system: surface: The artists and works that influenced me the most were: Josh Dorman’s 2008 piece, “Four Fleurs”, Liza Phillips works “Inlet” and “Flood plain”, both from 2003 and, Mariele Neudeckers’s 1998…

For my self-portrait, I decided to map my travel routine during high school in Bangalore, India. At this stage, my map is still very incomplete and needs to be reformatted. At first I was confused about what to map. My…

For my self portrait, I mapped my favorite part of my life: communicating. Over-communication is sort of a safe space for me. I’ve always been an over-thinker and speaker, solely because the mere act of speaking is comfortable for me….

To map oneself, there must be a certain level of understanding, that there will be an infinite level of subtraction, from ones complex reality of self, the scale or magnitude of the map is completely fabricated. In the creation of…

This is a less-than-finished base for my hand drawn additions. My map consists of three major points which represent the three cities of my heritage: Buenos Aires, New York, and London. The concentric circles represent the influence these cities and…

Introduction: My work of Mapping is representation of my inner thoughts with external geographic location. This work comes out of a desire to capture the experience and adventure in dreams. I am neither professional nor a graphic artist and had…

My self-portrait is a representation of the division between the places in which I have experienced increased growth, without taking into account the amount of time spent living at each location, as time or longevity is irrelevant in regards to…

   1. Earlier Map with sign system. 2. Detail of notation undergoing transformation into a topography Detail – Inaudible/External – Notated/Domestic – Noise/Uninhabitable Audio: Removed. Sheet music is a form of clear instruction – or so it is often presented….

explication map

The first question that puzzled me while considering what to create for this self-portrait map was that of timeliness and timelessness- at what point does a map, or data, or the truth fail to represent the moment? In order to…