myFace at Little Berlin

myFace was at little berlin this past Friday at their BYOBeamer event. Lee Tusman and the group at little berlin curated the BYOBeamer with different artists in a single space. It was a wonderful evening, meeting many fascinating artists and digital art goers. I was pleased to see people enjoying the interactive environment of myFace. The following pictures and video shows one part of the story from the BYOBeamer at little berlin.

Philly Internet/Tech Startup Ecosystem Visualized - Version 3

To make sense of the research I've been doing, I've visualized my current understanding of the internet/tech startup ecosystem in Philadelphia. The visual is specific to early stage internet/tech startups and the players that interact with those types of startups.

The current visual is my third iteration, I realize it's still incomplete, but I feel that I've roughly captured the relationships between the different players involved in the ecosystem. Thoughts and feedback are greatly appreciated.

If you want to start a discussion, please leave a comment or get into contact with me via the about page.

 

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UArts Edge Magazine - Electrofolksonomy

Some work from two semester's ago has made it into the UArts Edge Magazine, check it out!

It was the result of a project Slavko and I did together, Electrofolksonomy, which was also demo'd at the Museum and the Web conference in 2011. You can read the article in full screen here.

MiD at the AIA Center for Architecture Philadelphia

Working with Alaina, Lonnie, Kelly, and Tian last semester with Liberty Resources as our client, our design work has gone on display at the AIA Center for Architecture in Philadelphia. The Center is having its annual "Green, Urban, Glocal", which features student work. The work of several graduate industrial design students, including the previously mentioned and myself, and several undergrad industrial design students from UArts are on display. The work will be up between February 6th and March 7th, 2012, so go check it out!


MiD has had an ongoing relationship with Liberty Resources over the past year and a half to two years. If it wasn't for the work of people like Jake Wells, Matt van der Tuyn, Sara Hall, Michael Barakat, and Matt Miller, we would not have been able to accomplish what's on display at the Center.

Prototyping Interactive Art at Elixr

The owner of Elixr, Evan, has been kind enough to allow me to prototype multiple digital interactive environments. I played around with two different spaces, the interior of the coffee shop and the sidewalk space outside of Elixr. The goal of these prototypes was to learn about how people behave around interactive art.

Taking advantage of their large flat screen plasma television, I began by experimenting with their inside space. The interactive simply turned any motion it detected via a webcam into colorful paint.

The second prototype turned the sidewalk into an interactive walkway. People left colorful paint trails as they walked across the sidewalk.

 

Nursing Homes in Philadelphia - Visual Interactive

An interactive visualization I developed to show accessible housing units and nursing homes and their quality against the back drop of 2000 census data. And if you'd like to see the source code for this interactive, you can find it here on openprocessing.

The Incredible Shrinking Cities

An infographic I developed for the magazine City Limits.

My Brain and Nervous System

I've been continuing my work with the Franklin Institute further developing applications for the Kinect. One possible application is a projection of the nervous system on to the human body while also delivering content about the brain to the user.