A more indepth exploration into interactive wallpaper. STD wallpaper incorporates thermochromatic ink, conductive ink, and heating elements to show and hide layers of screen printed ink on the wallpaper. In this piece when the user touches the wall STD viruses start appearing (almost bleeding) through the wallpaper.

Arduino, Screen printing, Flocking

A small scale working prototype. I designed wallpaper with a layer of conductive paint to create interactive wallpaper that responds to touch.

Arduino, Screen printing, Flocking

Twitter mood ring takes the person's body temperature and changes the LED and uploads the person's current mood onto twitter. It is a giant mood ring that advertises your current mood to all of your friends on twitter.

Arduino, Sensors, Processing, Javascript

TV Guide is a project that takes all of the TV guide listings from the zipcodes around the USA and analyzes them based on genre, actor, and show.

Flash, PHP, RSS, XML

MOCA Cleveland commissioned my twin brother and me to create a modified version of our Bluetooth Enabled for their fall kick-off party.

The installation was modified to grab events from MOCA's website dynamically and ask questions based off those events. Guests were then invited to text their answer to the piece to interact with it in hopes of sparking conversation. All texted answers were then visually incorporated into the installation.

Flash, PHP, RSS, XML

The Student Art League (the student organization of the Myers School of Art) holds a fall semester kick off party. The school was looking for a way to allow students to have fun and get students to interact with each other.

Bluetooth Enabled was an cellphone interactive installation. The installation would grab a guest's Bluetooth device name and visually display statistics about the party on one wall. A second wall allowed guests to text message a number with a message. The installation would search Flickr for relevant images and create dynamic compositions based on the texted message.

Quartz Composer, PHP, RSS, XML

This interactive installation was a critique on the uncertainty of internet dating. Jaildater was a different kind of internet dating site. With the tag line, "You've searched through all the other sites, now try one that actually works!" Jaildater promised an honest interpretation of internet dating sites. All search results were pulled from the national sex offenders website. The installation was short lived because the government applied a stronger security to their website and broke the installation's scripts.

HTML, PHP, XML

While taking a new media practices class, Cory Arcangel was able to show the class basic video game hacking. This influenced me to take a summer and look at 8-bit technology and pixel art.

Summer 2007 I worked exclusively in 8-bit. I developed studies in 8-bit music and video game hacks. One of the pieces created was a feminist critique on the role of women in video games. By hacking Super Mario Brothers and reversing the roles of Mario and the princess, it allowed the gender roles to be reversed. Each piece was burned onto an EPROM chip and put into a cartridge to run on a Nintendo. A sketchbook was designed and printed to show our process. These pieces: Nintendo system, cartridges, and sketchbook were then put into a custom designed package and shipped as a multiple.

6502 Assembly (NES), EPROM Burner

The final project for a new media practices class was a video. Through the direction of Patrick Lichty and collaboration with my twin brother we created a video installation that pulled information from MySpace profiles.

I <3 Myspace is an installation that visually displays information from MySpace profiles. Information can be pulled at random or within a certain distance from a location. Three projectors created a digital triptych. A person's personal information was displayed on the first screen, a visual breakdown of their profile image on the second screen, and a grid of their friends on the third screen. The installation also printed out a piece of paper with the person's profile information, image, and last blog entries.

Quartz Composer, PHP, RSS, XML

The Myers School of Art needed a solution to digitally catalog and maintain their 100,000 + slides.

The first step was to create a database to hold the information for each slide. This was accomplished using FileMaker Pro 7. A database was created to allow the librarian and assistants to enter and catalog the slide information. A series of Photoshop and Applescript scripts were created to rename, resize, and move the scanned slides onto the web server. The FileMaker database was then shared using FileMaker 7 Server Advanced. To allow faculty and students to access the slides from the web, PHP (using FX.php) and Mac OS X Server was used to create a website for users to search and view the cataloged slides. To help aid the faculty in creating presentations: the website allows users to add slides to a list (slidestray). Once the list is complete, a self-contained Apple Keynote (or PowerPoint) presentation is automatically created and downloaded - complete with images and slide metadata.

HTML, CSS, XML, PHP, AJAX

An Applescript application, called PodcastStudio, was developed using Applescript and XCode to run full screen on a touch screen enabled iMac G5. A faculty member can walk up to the PodcastStudio Kiosk and within 4-5 taps, Podcast Studio will: record, stop, encode, upload, create an iTunes subscribable podcast, update the website, and burn a backup of the video on a DVD. Because iTunes U was not available at the time, MovableType is used to create the iTunes XML feed. MovableType allows the content to then be added to the public web site. PodcastStudio also has built in support for iTunes U once it is available to public universities in Ohio.

XCode, Objective-C, Applescript

The re-design of the Myers School of Art site used Symphony as the CMS (content management system). This allowed for relationships between the information on the website.

An iPhone web application was developed that allowed visitors of the school's gallery to take gallery tours and view more information about the current exhibition. All images/video/media are pulled from one central location. This allows the website, iPhone application, and digital TV/billboard to all share the same information.

Symphony CMS, XSLT, XML, PHP, Javascript, AJAX, HTML

A current research project on the use of color on the internet. A group of computers are being set up to spider the internet (just like google) and take pictures of websites. Then the pictures are broken down into color and the information is archived along with the website’s keywords.

Then, with this information I can compare color trends of certain sites. For examples the fortune 500 companies - is there a link in the color systems they use online?

Additionally, I can compare the color systems used by these websites and look at other similar websites (IE computer companies, dating websites, social websites) and compare their keywords / meta data against the colors used.

PHP, AJAX, Javascript

Angel Falls is a local coffee company. This identity was created during a production class. 4 promotional pieces were created for a production class: a two color silk screened poster, DVD promotional packaging, volvelle wheel for a promotional mailing, and postcard. The designed pieces was chosen to mimic coffee sacks that are used to decorate the coffee house.

Silk Screening, Adobe Illustrator & InDesign

The final project for a typography class was to research a typeface and create a type specimen book. This type specimen book chronicles the development of the typeface from it’s birth in ink and paper to it’s digital recreation on the computer. The book is an accordion fold and is silk screened on the front with a varnish.

Silk Screening, Adobe Illustrator & InDesign

Marius Watz is one of the leading generative artists in Europe. He uses a language called Processing (a language developed to help artists learn the logic of programming) for large scale projections, 3D rapid prototypes, and printed works. His residency included a week long workshop on the basics of Processing and a month long exhibition in the Emily Davis Gallery.