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Created a perceptron using Processing.
Coded visual tracking for a red ball using Processing.
Coding art project in Processing.
'Just whistle while you work
And cheerfully together we can tidy up the place
So hum a merry tune
It won't take long when there's a song to help you set the pace
And as you sweep the room
Imagine that the broom is someone that you love
And soon you'll find you're dancing to the tune
When hearts are high the time will fly
So whistle while you work'
Created December 2015
http://visarts.ucsd.edu/events/vis-181-final-screening-and-performance
A Nietzian approach to the elements of disorientation used in Laurie Anderson’s ‘O Superman’. Through the combination of Auditory and Visual Illusions, the viewers perception begins to change. The aim is to allow viewers to experience their own perceptions failing, and call into question our reliance of empirical knowledge through sense experience.
The piece is titled O Übermensch in reference to the Laurie Anderson piece 'O Superman' and Friedrich Nietzsche's use of the term Übermensch to describe "Above Human, Superman, or Super-Human". Nietzsche described it as a goal for humanity to set for itself. Nietzsche left this word open to interpretation, and has been adopted to mean that humanity shall always seek to better itself as a species, with the future prospect of becoming an Übermensch. The Laurie Anderson reference is for the repetitive, and necessary, speech and tones in this piece.
The auditory illusions are thanks to Professor Diana Deutsch's (UC San Diego) work in the phenomenon of phantom words. To recieve the full effect of the auditory and visual illusions, one must be subjected to them for a minute or so. These rapid moving images, pushing lines in and out of the center of the screen, causes one's perception to distort the next image seen. The piece also examines the effects of after images, where the image outline is burned shortly into the retina, causing the negated image to be projected for a short while onto the next image shown.
An undergraduate art exhibit where the goal of my project was to provide a unique experience for receiving sensory information. After implanting a 45mm Bone Conducting Transducer inside of a baseball bat, and applying amplification to the digital signal, users pressed the bat against their chin, and were able to hear the digital narrative through vibrations of the inner ear (cochlea).
Viewers were encouraged to take the bat and move around a fictionalized landscape. I had geolocated audio files around the Mandeville lawn, which required the users to explore the landscape in order to hear the next part of the narrative. The intention was to give the viewer a unique perceptual experience of listening through intense vibrations of the skull, while experiencing location and space as audio triggers (memories).
At the time of this videos creation, a study had been published reviewing the "five possible mechanisms underlying the effects of adaptive dual n-back training on working memory (i.e., improvements in executive attention, updating, and focus switching, as well as increases in the capacity of the focus of attention and short-term memory)."
Dual N-Back are games which emit both an auditory and visual response, then test how far back you are able to remember both stimuli, thus the N-Back. This video works in 1(+/-) intentionally, to help convey the importance of memory while watching video.
Is it my audio informing the photos, or the photos informing the audio? More importantly, why am I making these connections? Is it through visual, language, or action association? It may be of some interest to learn that one of my closer friends was able to make out some of the associations' origins. What does this say about the nature of video?
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GRE studying was getting tedious, so a friend and I drank some scotch, and made this.
All done on a Chromebook.
Image: Pixlr
Video: WeVideo/YouTube Editor
Sound: ---secret---
