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Hip-Hop Word Count Created March 2010 The Hip-Hop Word Count (HHWC) is a searchable ethnographic database built from the lyrics of over 40,000 Hip-Hop songs from 1979 to present day. The database is the heart of an online analysis tool that generates textual and quantified reports on searched phrases, syntax, memes and socio-political ideas.... Activism Education Open Culture Urban Research Data Visualization Generative Art Open Source Software Web
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La Congona New Cumbia Created March 2010 This project will examine where the production of contemporary electronic music engages with
informal economies and transnational distribution networks, with a specific focus on the Mexican
cumbia sonidera scene along the East Coast such as Passaic, NJ. Although thriving... |
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MetaFlora Created March 2010 Caroline Spivack Doris Cacoilo Jade Highleyman Maya Nayak Sonali Sridhar Spencer Brown Zoe Penina Baker
MetaFlora is to bring life to things that cannot sustain life. It is a flower-powered statement that comments on the absence of nature in the streets of New York City.
An urban street intervention developed for UWAC Day, the student... |
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Sausage Party Created March 2010
Sausage Party looks at your upcoming Facebook events and rigorously assesses their respective sausage ratings on a 0 to 5 sausage scale.
Project Blackbird Comedy Hacking Net-Art Open Source Software Web
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Urban Wilderness Action C... Created February 2010 Caroline Spivack Doris Cacoilo Jade Highleyman Jon Cohrs Sonali Sridhar Spencer Brown Stephanie Pereira Zoe Penina Baker
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An Eyebeam Nativity Created January 2010 Caroline Spivack Jade Highleyman Luther Cherry Spencer Brown Zoe Penina Baker
For the 2009 Holiday Hackshop, Eyebeam asked the current Student Residents to create an eyebeam-themed installation for their window gallery. In the holiday spirit, they designed An Eyebeam Nativity, which recreated the nativity scene using the founding principals, technologies, and people of Eyebeam as a... |
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Immaculate Telegraphy Created November 2009 Could humans at any point in history, given the right information, construct an electronic communication network? Over the course of 6 weeks, Jamie O'Shea built a working electrical telegraph switch in the wilderness, using no modern tools or materials. He learned to make stone tools, start fires, melt... |
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FIVE Created November 2009 Five Elements is an inter-disciplinary, multi-media performance and exhibit that will weave together multiple performance and visual art practices fashioned on the five dance elements of voguing, a dynamic and expressive dance form popularized by the urban gay and lesbian community), original musical... |
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Universal Access Created November 2009 Dragan Živadinov Kenya (Robinson) Rashaad Newsome
Universal Access is an embedded function of personal computing, providing unique resources to individuals with disabilities. Voice-over utilities, visual zoom, and display options are among the elements that can be customized. Rashaad Newsome + Kenya (Robinson) make performance work by manipulating these... |
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Bright Bike v2.0 Created November 2009 Clara Jo Michael Mandiberg Simon Jolly Will Kemper
After a year of testing we are releasing a new version of the wildly successful Bright Bike.
The new kit is easier to install, adapts better to everyone's desire to style their bike individually, and is now being made availalbe as purchaseable DIY Kits. Everything is pre cut for quick and easy... Activism Open Culture Sustainability Urban Research Green
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The Folksomy Project Created November 2009 JODI's ongoing performance project, The Folksomy Project, takes YouTube as source material, with the artists utilizing custom software to select and manipulate user-generated videos from the popular website. Armed with a virtual "juke-box" of video clips, JODI focuses on YouTube users love-hate... Exhibited Project Performance Art Software Web
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Shade Compositions Created November 2009 Kenya (Robinson) Rashaad Newsome
Shade Compositions is a live performance featuring a a chorus of more than 25 Black women combining improvisatory orchestral music and live video-mixing. Rashaad divided the performers into groups akin to instrumental sections as they enact his choreographed sound score made up of repeated sequences... |
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Eyebeam After-School Spec... Created November 2009 Diana Eng Hans-Christoph Steiner Jeff Crouse Katie Salen Stephanie Pereira
Education Learning Video Wearables Web
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Cat Mouse Trio Created November 2009 Cat Mouse Trio is a 3-channel installation that uses multiple perspectives, unscripted choreography, and the art of play to explore how a multiple viewpoints revolve around an invisible locus.
Three videographers shot the video and assigned these rules: videotape one another, ignore the camera... |
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After Thought Created October 2009 After Thought is a personality test where I interview people using flashcards and brainwave analysis to produce a custom “video mindprint”. From software-response analysis, I generate a unique 5-minute video containing symbolic imagery such as fireworks shooting into the night sky, rain beating... |
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Fairytale Fashion Created October 2009 Diana Eng Harim Song Luther Cherry Matt Borgatti
Fairytale Fashion is uses technology to create a collection magical clothing in real life (with blooming flowers, transforming shapes, changing colors, etc.) for Feb. 2010. We share our work in weekly research and development web videos on our website FairytaleFashion.... |
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The Friend Feeders (Frien... Created October 2009 The Friend Feeders is an animated diptych, and part of a suite of projects for the UK entitled Friends + Enemies. Larger-than-life, each panel depicts a person who appears to be supporting a host of animals: the man on the left supports native species in Northern England; the woman on the... Animation Exhibited Project
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Security Patterns Created October 2009 Clara Jo Michael Mandiberg
Security Patterns is a studio visit installation of recent laser cut work. These sculptures and drawings are made from old books laser cut with poignant words, and drawings made from industrial patterns, all of which explore transformations in technology and their relationships to evolutions (or devolutions... |
