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Code for Art: Research Project
For my Code for Art class, we were asked to prepare a brief report about a project that we read about on a blog or saw in our travels that uses code in some way. I picked Usman Haque’s “Primal Source” as my project to discuss and describe. “Primal Source” was commissioned by the City [...]
Rhythm – Technical Analysis – Part 2
In Thesis class yesterday, we met with our fellow students investigating similar modules (Technical, Conceptual, Methodological, etc), so Tae and I sat down to discuss what we were up to. A lot of great ideas came from the meeting, including discussions of light flicker, Xenakis and early projections, and Usman Haque. It was good to [...]
Les Kurbas and Rhythm
Les Kurbas is a one of the most important figures in Ukranian Theatre and the avantgarde in the early 20th Century. Even while he was imprisoned in labor camps in the mid-1930′s, he led a theatre of other prisoners before he and 1,110 other artists and intellectuals held in the Solovki prison camp were ordered [...]
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Rhythm – Technical Analysis – Part 1
For Thesis, we have begun the formalized research of a set ofspecific modules that relate to our projects: Conceptual, Evaluative, Technical, Social, and Methodological. Based on my Thesis topic (rhythm and technology), I am working on the technical. The main goal of this research is to gather as much useful information as possible in the [...]
Kalil Grant – Additional research into subway plant life
Since being awarded the Kalil Endowment for Smart Design Team Grant with Zane Murray and Jane Lien, we’ve begun our 2nd round of research and investigation into ways plant life is used in subway systems. I spent my spring break visiting my wife’s family in Taipei, Taiwan, so I used the opportunity to see what [...]
Red Cross Measuring Device – Research
While I was in Taiwan, I did a bit of research in regards to outdoor solar devices that are built to withstand extreme weather conditions. Taiwan experiences significant rainfall, as well as typhoons, floods, and earthquakes, and since we are designing for heavy flood areas in Africa, I felt this was a good area to [...]