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Communigraph
Josh Coolidge More or less an electric ouija board. by placing objects on one side of the Communigraph, the user (Querant) triggers movement of the planchette, which articulates responses from Beyond the Veil.


= = Sad to say that the alarm will not happen this semester. As a karmic result (pun intended...) my car was stolen.... true story... I am concentrating now on analogue synth building using arduino... and then going further and using the synth to work with Max and/ or Director/ and or a light or laser show... essentially a one person multi media extravaganza... Below is one of my favorite analogue synth builders.... and below that is a controller for max msp that is pretty amazing....Its called the jazz lemur... there are ways that you can build one... but very complicated...



= = =The Barry Manilow Alarm Project Jeff Ray=

Proposal #?

This would be one of my proposal. Not sure that I am up to speed to do it...for my second, this might be my final project.

The name of the project is called, "The Barry Manilow Car Alarm."

It is an anti theft device for my car in which the thief would trigger a Barry Manilow song blaring from the speakers if the car is tampered with. They would be too embarrased to drive around with, " Can't Smile Without You" blaring in the speakers so this in turn would prevent them from stealing the vehicle.

The signal would come from the electricity coming from the starter. The turn off switch would be somewhere hidden.

Another project I am considering is using max/msp to trigger a laser or video show. I would have a midi controller keyboard ... to help facilitate this. -Jeff Ray



Eric Caselton-

=BAR NOW!!!=



When it's time for a drink, BAR NOW!

Morning, noon, or break time, BAR NOW!

//This device solves the problem of whether or not it's an appropriate time for a stiff drink.//
Open the bar and watch the hour hand on the clock spin round and round...

Simply place your cocktail glass on the custom designed, patent pending, anytime cocktail glass coaster and.......

....the hand on the clock stops. Voila! __IT's FIVE o'Clock!!__ Time for a drink!

BAR NOW!!!
-eric caselton

__Piezo electric sensors will be attached to the back of the glass of a window. Video of animated fish will have be projected onto the window, giving the impression of fish in a tank. There will be a sign that says "Do not tap on the glass." When people tap on the glass, the fish will first startle, then track to where the person taps. If the person taps too much, a huge shark will materialize and swallow up the screen.

- mary__

A painting will be displayed behind glass. There will be 5 different types of lights installed in the piece: Red, Green, Blue, White, and UV. The location of the viewers hand will change the type of light that is illuminating the painting which will change the appearance of the painting. Certain parts of the painting will be more clearly visible when exposed to different types of light. -Jeremiah

Proposal:

(I have two, though I have not decided which I will use for the first assignment yet.)

1. I plan on sewing EL wires into a painting. Perhaps one similar to a phrenology diagram - the skull. The majority of the wires will be woven through the auditory part of the brain, and continue down the vertebrae column. As long as my cheesy old keyboard is capable of being rewired to a series of on and off switches, these switches will activate various colors of tubing in the painting. It is a synesthetic representation of the how sound activates light and color.

2. This is a more literal piece I am considering. A similar painting of an organ - the heart. Different components of the organ (capillaries for example) will be represented by EL wires sewn into the canvas. The wires will flow from the valves up to a clock. A timer will allow the lights to turn on at sunset, and the flat-rate heart is turned on by the night. Night Life, if you will.

_Lauren

Foreign Profanities Telephone, by Danny Pan


A telephone placed in a public space, probably somewhere on campus. It will ring occasionally, beckoning a curious anybody to pick it up. When someone answers the phone, an angry hostile voice (pre-recorded) on the other end will be shouting foreign language "profanities" at whoever picks up and answers the phone. It won't be real profanities though, it will be harmless innocent phrases like "i like kittens" made to sound like profanities because of the tone and mood of the speaker.

Mood Receptor idea by Danny Pan
Mood Receptor will play a song depending on how dark/bright a room is. If a room is really bright, it will play a happy song, for instance Sweet & Dandy by Toots and Maytals [] but if the room is pitch dark, it will play a depressing song like Less Than Human by The Chameleons[]. Technically, it will be a photoreceptor sending data to the computer. A secondary software, maybe flash or processing, will choose a song based on the data. Since the data from the photoreceptor is analog, the audio songs will mix into each other depending on the value.

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Feeling of being unfamiliar to a social scene, gathering. Usually when it happens you observe, listen more.The room is filled with sound of social gathering (like a cocktail party or a wedding party for instance). The attendants are not physically there but they react to the participants actions.A few participants enter the room, otherwise empty, with a tag bracelet. As they move in the room, you can hear a distinct voice over the party sound. The voices are supposed to say something funny or annoying about people in the room about the participants. Sometimes, attendants interrupt themselves (complete silence) as if the participant made something wrong. The ouput (voice) is triggered by the distance between the objects and persons wearing the tag, and their location in the room.

Mutant Robot Fetus A situation in which fetus shaped sculpture is suspended in a nest of wires and a mess of dissected electronic components. The fetus is rigged to twitch and vibrate in accordance to activity on the internet; for example a single twitch per every infant death throughout the world in real time. -Bobby

___ Benjamin Carpenter Project 1 Distraction Machine

This center of this piece is a mechanically driven eyeball that stares at the person standing behind the main control switch. The controller can then throw this switch to operate one of two “distraction devices” flanking the eyeball.

Power given to a distraction device will tell the arduino via a relay to activate a motor attached to the eye. This will turn the eye in the direction of the active distraction.

I am interested in connecting dots between the notion of misinformation, diversion, our media culture and how it affects us as a culturally and intellectually.

My hope is that participants of this work will attempt to skirt the scrutiny of the eye by hiding behind a culturally insignificant distraction.

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Mundo Maestas. My proposal is to create a moblie phone. Through a microphone volume will me recieved to power a motor on a small car. As long as the person keeps talking the motor will contine to run.