Project Updates:
Black Tide: Ordered 4 PING))) sensors, a meatgrinder spiral, and Morgan (my lovely boyfriend) has been working with the electromagnets. He found that using a computer power supply gives much better amperage for cheap, since they're lying around all over.
The setbacks are that there's only one junkyard I could find in this city that sells junk back. ...and it's in Humbolt Park. Also, I'm probably going to have to get the table fabbed for me. That's not gonna be cheap...
Qeej Hero: The controller works with the wireless adapter, and when I screwed the boards down, I stripped the screws... and now I realize that the sync button is now screwed face down to the wood form.... fantastic.
Dance piece: ... don't even ask.
I'll be lucky to make it through this semester alive...
Conductive Material: Engagement Through Visualization.
3.30.2010
3.22.2010
Interactivity_is
Tomorrow and Wednesday: My definition of interactivity is up for discussion.
Check it out at http://iam.colum.edu/ahicks/
Check it out at http://iam.colum.edu/ahicks/
3.14.2010
Thoughts on...
Interaction:
- ever so useful
- fascinating
- beautiful
- my chance to change the world
Technology:
- Exciting
- Terrifying
- so much work
- a chance to change the world
- fascinating
- beautiful
Careers:
- your life's passion
- your chance to make a difference in the world
- always work. Changing the world is not going to be easy.
- fascinating
Graduation:
- Terrifying
- Exciting
- so much work
- A chance to make a difference in the world
Life in general:
- Exciting
- Terrifying
- always work
- your chance to make a difference in the world
- fascinating
- beautiful
Common sense:
- no longer common
- ever so useful
- your chance to show others that it is still alive and usable
- beautiful
Grammar:
- USE IT
- makes one look more professional
- no longer common
- your chance to make a difference in the literary world of the internet
- beautiful
Drama:
- far too common
- ever so high school
- not useful at all
- Terrifying
- neither fascinating nor beautiful
Thoughts:
- beautiful
- fascinating
- Exciting
-Terrifying
- very common
- always work
- ever so useful
- should be used long after high school
- USE THEM
- your chance to change to world
... I sense a trend here.
- ever so useful
- fascinating
- beautiful
- my chance to change the world
Technology:
- Exciting
- Terrifying
- so much work
- a chance to change the world
- fascinating
- beautiful
Careers:
- your life's passion
- your chance to make a difference in the world
- always work. Changing the world is not going to be easy.
- fascinating
Graduation:
- Terrifying
- Exciting
- so much work
- A chance to make a difference in the world
Life in general:
- Exciting
- Terrifying
- always work
- your chance to make a difference in the world
- fascinating
- beautiful
Common sense:
- no longer common
- ever so useful
- your chance to show others that it is still alive and usable
- beautiful
Grammar:
- USE IT
- makes one look more professional
- no longer common
- your chance to make a difference in the literary world of the internet
- beautiful
Drama:
- far too common
- ever so high school
- not useful at all
- Terrifying
- neither fascinating nor beautiful
Thoughts:
- beautiful
- fascinating
- Exciting
-Terrifying
- very common
- always work
- ever so useful
- should be used long after high school
- USE THEM
- your chance to change to world
... I sense a trend here.
3.12.2010
Compiling...
Hello world.
For those of you who have just tuned in to our broadcast, let me bring you up to date.
I am Laura Thompson, Interactive Media Artist and Photographer. A Nutmegger, Michigander, and now Chicagoan, who will be graduating from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Interactive Arts and Media in May of this year. I have experience in many different fields of art, ranging from 2D to 3D, singing to drawing, glassblowing to ceramics. I also am a certified sailing instructor, a firedancer, and an American Sign Language enthusiast.
As for what I do, I build things. Interactive objects, to be specific. I have worked on interactive installations, games, robots, books, and live performances. Some examples of my work are as follows.
Cubes 2009 - An interactive sound installation composed of 5 cubes. Each cube contains an Arduino board, an array of tilt sensors, and XBee radio, and LEDs. The sensors tell the cube what side it is on, and therefore, what sound to play and what color to be. This creates a conversation between the music, the space, and the users. The piece was a collaboration between Gary Kupczak (concept, sound), Jason Geistweidt (programming), and myself (hardware).
The Cubes were featured first in Columbia College's Manifest. There they were found by the Columbia College Dance Center and used in 5 separate performances. We then submitted to and were accepted as the Festival Installation for the EMM Music Festival of 2009.
A QR History: Chicago - An interactive QR Code book created for, and 2nd place winner of, the 17th Annual Hokin Honors Exhibition. The book contains pictures and codes. When scanned, the QR Codes will take you to a site detailing a short history of the monument pictured beside it. The codes can be scanned with any smartphone that has a QR Code scanning application.
Human Circuit - An interactive team building game created while in the McCarthy Technologies Bootcamp. The device I built is a modified Drawdio, made by LadyAda. It takes the current naturally given off by humans and converts it into a sonic tone. The device has two handles with conductive tape on them. When held by a circle of people, no matter how many, the tone will sound. But if the circle breaks, the tone will stop.
This project was presented to a panel during the 2010 CAA Conference by Janell Baxter and myself.
These are just some samples of what I have worked on. My website, www.finesense.net, will detail more.
Thanks for tuning in. I've enjoyed having you and hope to see you again. Until then.
For those of you who have just tuned in to our broadcast, let me bring you up to date.
I am Laura Thompson, Interactive Media Artist and Photographer. A Nutmegger, Michigander, and now Chicagoan, who will be graduating from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Interactive Arts and Media in May of this year. I have experience in many different fields of art, ranging from 2D to 3D, singing to drawing, glassblowing to ceramics. I also am a certified sailing instructor, a firedancer, and an American Sign Language enthusiast.
As for what I do, I build things. Interactive objects, to be specific. I have worked on interactive installations, games, robots, books, and live performances. Some examples of my work are as follows.
Cubes 2009 - An interactive sound installation composed of 5 cubes. Each cube contains an Arduino board, an array of tilt sensors, and XBee radio, and LEDs. The sensors tell the cube what side it is on, and therefore, what sound to play and what color to be. This creates a conversation between the music, the space, and the users. The piece was a collaboration between Gary Kupczak (concept, sound), Jason Geistweidt (programming), and myself (hardware).
The Cubes were featured first in Columbia College's Manifest. There they were found by the Columbia College Dance Center and used in 5 separate performances. We then submitted to and were accepted as the Festival Installation for the EMM Music Festival of 2009.
A QR History: Chicago - An interactive QR Code book created for, and 2nd place winner of, the 17th Annual Hokin Honors Exhibition. The book contains pictures and codes. When scanned, the QR Codes will take you to a site detailing a short history of the monument pictured beside it. The codes can be scanned with any smartphone that has a QR Code scanning application.
Human Circuit - An interactive team building game created while in the McCarthy Technologies Bootcamp. The device I built is a modified Drawdio, made by LadyAda. It takes the current naturally given off by humans and converts it into a sonic tone. The device has two handles with conductive tape on them. When held by a circle of people, no matter how many, the tone will sound. But if the circle breaks, the tone will stop.
This project was presented to a panel during the 2010 CAA Conference by Janell Baxter and myself.
These are just some samples of what I have worked on. My website, www.finesense.net, will detail more.
Thanks for tuning in. I've enjoyed having you and hope to see you again. Until then.
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