TXTTONE is my final project for Live Web.  It’s a web browser and SMS-based collaborative musical instrument that is meant to be performed in a room full of people with laptops and cellphones.  I wanted to create an interactive and collaborative musical experienced based on the ubiquitous technologies that we normally have with us at [...]

Last week in Live Web, we learned about using Shared Objects in Flash and Canvas in JS/HTML. For my homework, I used the ODI and AMO characters I created last year and reimagined in a Shared Object Flash chat. Check it out here. Click on the text field and type new captions for ODI or [...]

Continued from Part 2: Monkeys Watching Monkeys Monkey Think Monkeys often evokes a strong emotional response among people. Monkeys as symbols are also charged with social and political meaning.  We often anthropomorphize monkeys and project our own human anxieties onto them. Monkeys drive us bananas. They are Curious George one minute and the next minute [...]

Continued from my previous post: Live Web Midterm Idea This week I have continued to develop my idea for my Live Web midterm.  My project is called Monkey Watching Monkey Watching Monkey… It combines live streaming video with elements of Nam June Paik’s TV Buddha and The Infinite Cat Project. I want to play with [...]

I want to do something involving live streaming video that combines elements of Nam June Paik’s TV Buddha and The Infinite Cat Project.  I want to play with the idea of the mediated gaze, reflections and narcissism.  I also want to work with animals, whether real or fake.  Still trying to flesh out this idea…stay [...]