I worked with Catherine on this week’s lab in Physical Computing, which involved getting familiar with basic electronics.

I worked with my classmate Meredith for the Analog In lab in week 2 of Intro to Physical Computing @ ITP. First, we reconstructed the potentiometer and LED breadboard & Arduino setup according to the lab documentation.  After getting familiar with the hardware last week, this week was much easier, and we were able to [...]

Week 2 of Communications Lab @ ITP: In Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong draws from cultural anthropology, Greco-Roman classical antiquity, and modern (McCluhan and company) to illustrate the differences between primary oral cultures (societies that do not have written language) and “chirographic” or literate cultures.  Ong rejects the term “oral literature” as “preposterous.”  The term [...]

Here is my Processing assignment from week 2 of Intro to Computational Media at ITP.  If it looks familiar, it is because I used my design from week 1 as a starting point.  Then I used variables and conditionals to animate the drawing.  Click here or on the screenshot below to view it in action.  [...]

As part of Communications Lab at ITP, we were asked to visit and comment on the New York City Waterfalls.  I went with my classmate, Catherine to observe the Waterfalls from the South Street Seaport on September 7. Living in New York, one often forgets that Manhattan is an island.  Access to the waterfront areas [...]