http://mashable.com/2009/12/26/augmented-reality-marketing/

ITP winter show 2009 from adafruit industries on Vimeo.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/highlights-from-nyus-itp-winter-show-2009

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2009/12/22/itp-winter-show-2009-our-favorites/

ITP Winter Show Afterparty @ Santos, Dec 21st 2009 from Winslow Porter on Vimeo.

Our Design for UNICEF project now has an official website:
http://www.rapidftr.com
http://www.rapidftr.org

Second video of tek(s)neSonic interaction from a distance with a dark room, using lights to interact with the letters onscreen.

tek(s)neSonic2 from teknevision on Vimeo.

First video documentation of tek(s)neSonic interaction.

tek(s)neSonic from teknevision on Vimeo.

Getting ready for this!

Tuesday, 12/15

FOR MORE INFO:
http://itp.nyu.edu/nime/show/

NIME: New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Creating new performance tools for digital music.

In the eighth annual NIME concert, performers will play a series of newly designed electronic instruments that aim to keep the “live” in the live performance of digital music.

Electronic music is usually played with a keyboard and mouse. Laptop musicians often sit at a desk and give performances that feel like watching someone work in their cubicle. The idea behind NIME is to go beyond the mouse and keyboard and beyond even piano keys and drum pads. It seeks to present performance systems that make the most out of the new opportunities for musical expression that digital technology offers.

This year’s NIME concert will feature such innovations as a musically enhanced sewing machine, sonified floor tiles, performative knitting needles, turntablism for live instrumentalists, electronically controlled cartoon antics, novel realizations of the rock guitar, and a host of other exciting approaches to the creation of music.

NIME is an end-of-semester performance by 16 graduate student artists from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU. It will be presented by the instructors Greg Shakar and Hans-Christoph Steiner. The performers are Drew Burrows, Karla Calderon, Jayoung Chung, Lara Grant, Ted Hayes , Lee-Sean Huang, Ari Joseph, Michelle Mayer, Ariel Nevarez, Winslow Porter, Anthony Ptak, Paul Rothman, Jason Safir, Milena Selkirk, and Carolina Vallejo.
18+ w/ ID
admission: $7 (free for NYU ID holders)
door time: 7PM DOORS / 8 PM SHOW

Other posts about NIME:
Networked Music Review

Arduino site

Gary’s Guide NYC

This is a UNICEF post about our class presentations at the UNICEF headquarters this past Thursday, Dec. 3. My group (w/ Jorge Just, Mustafa Bağdatlı,
Dharmarajan Ayakkad & Rune Skjoldborg Madsen) presented Rapid FTR: (Rapid Family Tracing and Reunification (or Reunion).

‘Design for UNICEF’ harnesses innovative thinking from graduate students at New York University

NEW YORK, USA, 4 December 2009 – ‘Design for UNICEF’ is an interdisciplinary design programme where graduate students examine some of the challenges UNICEF faces and work in groups to research and prototype solutions. The graduate class is taught by Professor Clay Shirky and is a collaboration between UNICEF and the Interactive Telecommunication Programme at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City.

This was back on May 18. After so many years of wanting to do it, finally did. Jumped with a small crew of ITP peeps at Skydive the Ranch in Gardiner, NY.

My First SKYDIVE!!! from teknevision on Vimeo.

Monome build day was on Saturday, November 14 at ITP. 8 hours of soldering parts! 64 LEDs, 64 tiny little diodes, random other parts. I’ve never soldered as much as I did that day. The orange LEDs ordered from Jameco turned out to be red/pink/orange-ish, but I still like the color.

Monome 40h from teknevision on Vimeo.

Tiny Little Diode

Definitely need tweezers to handle these things.

Now all I need is a faceplate and a housing for my Monome, preferably some kind of nice wood grain. To build or buy your own Monome, go here.

Butternut Squash Soup from teknevision on Vimeo.

Through art and science, we aim to stimulate, inspire and make curious the viewer. This is a place to imagine and experience, ponder and wonder. Both reverie and deep contemplation are welcome as are furtive glances and downright stares.

The goal is to illuminate and edify by limiting the amount of accompanying text and instead to engage and spark the senses. Our aim is to open and highlight shifting perspectives and perceptions instead of generating fixed or highly (in)formed ones. Facts and background info are secondary to the questions generated. The more there are, the better.

Is this beautiful or ugly? Why?
Is this interesting or boring?
How are you seeing?
What are you seeing?
What does it remind you of?
What does it make you think about?
Is it real or imagined?

Whether shallow or deep, hopefully something here will manage to resonate in you well beyond our walls and beyond your time in our moment.

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References:
Freud Museum

Legacy Project

Sleeping and Dreaming Exhibit

The Museum of Man (Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden)