Category Archives: Physical Computing

No Strings Attached, Audiobombs, & .highway @ Electric Art 4

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Exhibition of Steve Belovarich’s work at Electric Art in Syracuse, NY on April 10, 2009 included an Installation called “No String Attached”, where two mannequins say what is available on the Casual Encounters section of Craigslist; “.highway”, a visualization of the GPS grid as someone drives on [...]

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Audiobombs Hit the Streets This Spring

The history of graffiti will reveal the political rhetoric of the oppressed through images and slogans. Indeed, the voices of many otherwise unheard have shined through the use of graffiti. Look at all the tagging of graffiti artist signatures on trains and underpasses. The graffiti image may seem ambiguous and ever changing, sometimes incomprehensible. This [...]

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The Tourist Episode 1 “The Tourist”

“The Tourist” is an online video series about the relationship between a man and his wearable computer named Al. The series takes an absurd look at the relationships man has developed with his machines in the early 21st century.
Watch The Tourist – Ep 01 – The Tourist Runtime: 04:52

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Wearable Technologies

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 [...]

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Information Hunter Gatherer @ Electric Art 4/26/08

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 upon [...]

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Artist Statement for Physical Computing Project #1

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 [...]

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Playing Around w/ Make Controller + Max/MSP

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 link [...]

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Info Hunter/Gatherer Beta ver.55

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 Wii [...]

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Rutt Etra Prototype Using Max/Jitter

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 [...]

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Info Hunter/Gatherer (remix) Concept

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 [...]

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