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Tourist Package

This assignment was very useful for me. not only did I get to learn how to use illustrator, I am very comfortable and familiar with it. on top of learning illustrator, I learned how to use sketchup. I find sketchup to be a very simple and fun program to use that will help me in the future. Here is my poster that I made for my tourists package:

Here are screen shots of my tour and the sketchup models I created for the tour in google earth and google sky:

Interview With Dean MacCannel Response

I found it interesting about how he talks about how we use our leisure time to identify ourselves. I find it very relatable when he talks about how we put more work into our leisure time than into our actual work. I also found it interesting about how China town was decorated for a film and that is why it looks the way it does now.

star tours

This is a really rough idea and I don't know how long I am going to stick with it. But I think I want to use google sky and do some sort of tour of different constellations and nebulae. My poster will have an alien on it and I'll 3D print an alien fetus. This is why I don;t really want to stick with this idea. It's too easy too silly too generic. I'll come up with something better hopefully.

As We May Think

This article was pretty eye opening to me when explained. At first it was difficult for me to comprehend the article but then I realize that heidecker breaks down technology into many different factions. What stood out to me the most was the way humans enframe everything. We constantly try to put an order to things in our day to day live in the most obvious or most subconscious ways. This idea made perfect sense because on a deep psychological way, we are always trying to control chaos. To us, nature is chaos. But when I think about it, is nature really all that chaotic. In fact, sometimes I feel there is more order to nature than to human behavior. But again I feel that humans are nature. Therefore there is order in everything that happens. I think it is important for us to identify how we are always trying to have control. We should not try so hard to control nature but we should instead just accept that we are nature.

Virtual Intervention

My project makes use of public space by highlighting mundane objects. I expose these objects by using artist's frames to raise questions on how should we view art. Why do people tend to revere things labeled as "art" no matter how simple? Why do we take "art" so seriously? How do we know if artists take their "art" seriously? how do we know if any thought is put into a work of "art"? What draws the line between something normal and something that is "art"?

"The Phallus" 

Artist: George Carpenter 

Ink on Cement

"Venus De Milo"

Artist: George Carpenter

Gloss Medium

"The Fountain"

Artist: George Carpenter

Porcelain

"American Gothic"

Artist: George Carpenter

Tobacco

Chance Operations recipe

My chance Operation is an audio experiment, meant to combine the songs of birds with the songs of people.

Step 1: Go to the website mapcrunch.com
Step 2: Click "go!"to visit a random location on the planet.
Step 3: In the lower right-hand corner look at the country
Step 4: Find out this country's national bird and national anthem
Step 5: Go on youtube and type "(insert bird here) bird call"
Step 6: Go on youtube and type "(insert country) national anthem"
Step 7: Go on swigview.com
Step 8: Copy and paste the links of the national anthem and the bird call into their own URL rows.
Step 9: repeat steps 1 through 8 with three more countries
Step 10: With the four anthems and four bird calls, click "view videos"
Step 11: Press play on each youtube window

Example
http://www.SwigView.com/8kmVwNU

Ideas

Somehow convert something organic into different forms of energy.

Turn the shadows of a goldfish into sound. Shine a light on the fish tank, with photodiodes, convert the shadow of the fish into sound. There will be a grid of photo diodes. When the fish swims up it increases amplification. When the fish swims to the side, it will change pitch. Do the same thing with ants in an ant farm.

Have random strangers draw a picture of me in a notepad. Compile pictures to create some sort of composition.

Create an instrument that uses feedback. A box with a piano string going through the middle. Inside the box is a pickup and a speaker. The resonating string creates a variable tonal feedback loop.

somehow make a fish control the pitch on a thermin.

create a collage of radio stations mixed with different bird calls.

Create some sort of piece using a random google street view generator.

Circuit bend a small plug n play video game. Create visual noise.

Make a snail race.

Paint flowers weird colors

press a pane of glass against beds of flowers and take a photo

use animation for something.

composite images of sea monkies and planktonic creatures against war stock footage.

Open mediafiles (.mov .mp3 .jpeg) as text files. distort the code, insert phrases, reopen files in their original forms.

Plug guitar into very small speaker, using a microphone and recording small speaker into a loud speaker cabinet.

Compile video images of fishtanks.

put a vhs or cassette tape in the microwave for a few seconds.

Paint something with wax and melt it with a blowdryer

art + sarcasm

art + unenthusiasm

music + apathy

Make a charlie brown-esque comic

Assignment 2

I find Bush's predictions about the future to be very well thought out and surprisingly accurate. He uses evidence from the past in order to make his assumptions in which I find relevance to today. I believe that by examining past inovations, you can predict what may come next. Also, I believe that alot of modern day innovations are inspired by people's visions of what may come next.

More and more, technology is becoming integrated into our lives. I strongly believe that technology will merge with biology. I think we will be completely one with technology in ways science fiction portrays it. I strongly believe that telekinesis will become possible. Today, scientists are able to harness the power of our brainwaves to perform very basic functions. I remember when I was a kid seeing a kit you could buy that uses brainwaves to make a foam ball go through an obstacle course. I believe in the future we will be able to do much more with our minds.

I believe that telepathy will be possible. I think the social networks of the future will all take place in our brains. There will be a map of every synapse that takes place in our brains that will be used to access a database 100 times larger than the internet today. Instead of making phone calls, you will be able to tap into the brains of others. Music, reading, and movie watching will be an instantaneous process. We will be able to read millions of books in a matter of seconds. The way Bush describes the encyclopedia as a small chip is how I see the future of reading. Except that small chip is as large as a few cells that can hold every book written.

I think technology will allow us to become one with the machine. Not only will we have quadrupled the speed and efficiency of our brains, I believe our bodies will become less organic. I believe that our physical apperance will be able to be altered through the use of genetics. I believe that our life spans will increase dramatically and aging will be a thing of the past. There is a billionaire in Russia who is using his money to make himself "immortal". He wants to somehow turn his knowledge and personality into a digital avatar that is as lifelike as possible. I believe that when people die, there will be a avatar in his or her place.

Assignment 1

Solarduo Project by Koray Tahiroglu and Lyytikainen
http://mlab.uiah.fi/~korayt/solarduoprj.html

Two artists came up with the idea to create sound using light. Through the use of a calculator solar panel, they create rich sound structures through the use of analog and digital components. I am interested in sound experimentation as well as electronics. This piece raises the question of what does visible light sound like, and it also raises the question as to what other forms of energy can be converted to audible sound.

Energy Harvesting Derive
http://xncroft.com/projects/energyshoes.html

This project involves newer forms of generating sustainable energy. It uses hacked Heely's shoes to generate electricity while also encouraging the wearer to go outside and play. I am interested in sustainable energy and how simple everyday motions such as walking can be converted to electricty. This project raises the question of how can the energy in simple actions such as walking be harnessed. Also, it raises the question as to how can everyday excercise improve our lives in ways we may not have thought of.

Night Sounds
Shawn Decker
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2010/jul/30/the-night-sounds-1999-shawn-decker/

In this piece, four buckets are susepended by piano strings. Each bucker contains a certain amount of water that determines the tension on the piano strings. On the top of each string is a motor with a piece of wire that hits the piano string once every rotation. The result is a natural sound, similar to cicadas and crickets. This project interests me because it is the orchestration of sound to emulate nature. Also, I find the use of the bucket to determine pitch and amplification is interesting. This project raises the question as to how regular objects can be used to amplify sound. Also, it raises the question of how can small creatures like the cicada create such loud and harmonic sound.