The first episode of the upcoming web series called “The Tourist” was screened inside a portable storage container today, Sunday September 28th at The Celebration of the Arts in New Paltz, NY. The POD screening was curated by Betty Greenwald. “The Tourist” is an online video series about the relationship between a man and his [...]
Author Archives: Stephen Belovarich
Wearable Technologies
09/17/2008 – 1:29 pm
Wearable Technologies is now well into its fourth week as an Undergraduate/Graduate Level class. The class deals with issues revolving around the integration of computers with the body. As a Graduate Teaching Assistant, I facilitate discussion, teach workshops concerning topics found in the Arduino Programming Environment, help students to debug code, and help to setup [...]
Information Hunter Gatherer @ Electric Art 4/26/08
04/27/2008 – 10:54 am
Information Hunter Gatherer, a video game where the player shoots down news headlines and gathers the content of the news story, premiered at the Electric Art Show in Syracuse, NY on April 26, 2008. The program and installation was created by Stephen Belovarich. Information Hunter Gatherer is a video game where the player can reflect [...]
I Walk, Don’t Run, When I Drive I’m on Drugs…
03/01/2008 – 4:00 pm
I Walk, Don’t Run, When I Drive I’m on Drugs. The drugs of the information age. Sometimes I walk to school on the weekends. My fiance and I share a 2001 Subaru Outback Limited Sedan. She drives to work, a twenty mile roller coaster ride, while I trek 2.5 miles through South Side Syracuse with [...]
Artist Statement for Physical Computing Project #1
02/24/2008 – 10:30 pm
Untitled is an experiment in human perception and augmented reality. Visible light is usually represented in the center of a graph of the electromagnetic spectrum. This graph reveals the narrow bandwidth of electromagnetic radiation humans can actually perceive. Cameras and antennas can be calibrated to sense all other wavelengths. This dependence on the apparatus for [...]
Playing Around w/ Make Controller + Max/MSP
02/14/2008 – 7:01 pm
I put together a patch in Max/MSP that can be thought of as a tutorial for sending messages from Max to the Make Controller Board. The patch controls the LED board that comes in the sensor pack. You must download the ms.usb patch to allow the Make Controller Board to communicate with Max. A Download [...]
Info Hunter/Gatherer Beta ver.55
02/08/2008 – 11:27 am
Info Hunter/Gatherer is an interactive computer artwork where the participant can act and reflect upon their relationship with mass media, specifically the news headline. This post marks the first release of Info Hunter/Gatherer into the wild. The program is currently in Beta ver.55. The current rendering of the project allows the user to wield a [...]
Light Pollution Experiment #1
02/03/2008 – 9:18 am
The following are among the first samples taken from a photographic study concerning the effect of light pollution on suburban and rural landscapes. Check out Traveling Through Space and Time Without a Permit, an ongoing exhibition of work about mankind’s relationship to the Night Sky. Click on any thumbnail to see a larger version. Please [...]
Rutt Etra Prototype Using Max/Jitter
02/02/2008 – 1:09 pm
Synthesized video was inspired by 1960s music synthesizers like the Moog. Early video image processing strategies “sought to subvert the traditional broadcast television image and attempted ‘to conjure up the new realities associated with hallucinogenic drugs’” (Meigh-Andrews, 112). Video Art pioneer Nam June Paik teamed up with Electrical Engineer Shuya Abe in 1969 to produce [...]
Info Hunter/Gatherer (remix) Concept
02/01/2008 – 8:00 am
A video screen projects on a vast wall in a dark space. A hunting spear rests on the floor, ready to be clutched by any willing participant. News headlines roam the video projection, flocking together on and off the screen. Someone picks up the spear. Suddenly, news headlines scatter and flee the scene. The participant [...]