ITP/IMA Spring Show 2019 - VoiceTube: Learn English through videos!

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Hello!
What you're about to watch is an edited version
of a live stream that I did almost a month ago.
This was actually the sixth time that I've done that.
It was the end-of-semester ITP and IMA Spring Show 2019.
I teach here at a program called ITP
that's a two-year master's program,
and also IMA, our Interactive Media Arts,
that's an undergraduate major
at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
At the end of every semester
all the students get together and do a show,
two nights only, of their work.
So, I wandered around with a camera,
and a bunch of people helping me,
and it was lots of fun,
and had a microphone, and looked at various projects.
You can watch the full live stream.
It's a little over two hours,
if you wanna check this video's description,
or enjoy this highlight reel.
Happy summer!
Have a wonderful summer!
See you in some future coding training videos.
(train whistle blows)
(happy easy-going music)
- Can we see the dinosaur project?
Can the dinosaur explain the dinosaur project?
- I'm Emily.
- I'm Maya Pruitt.
Dylan the Dino.
- Dylan the Dino.
- And we have another group-mate, Mingna.
- Yes.
- For this piece, we partnered with Dr. Michael Rampino,
who's a geologist, and also a researcher, at NYU.
He specifically studies mass extinction.
So we made an AR app
where people are invited to become a geologist
by scanning the rock layers for evidence of mass extinction
and more information about earth's history.
- This is your tool.
And if you find an object, you can scan it,
and an AR component will appear.
This one's one of our favorites.
We call him Ancestor Shrew,
because he is the ancestor of all placental mammals.
- I'm Chenhe, and this is Yves.
- I'm Yves.
- And this is our project.
We did this.
We called it White Mountain, Black Water.
This is simply, you drop down the water,
and make a song.
- [Teacher] That is the most magical thing ever.
What is the substance that you're dripping?
- [Chenhe] That's water.
Ink water.
- [Teacher] Ink water.
- [Chenhe] Just ink and water, yeah.
- This is an acrylic sheet, and then we painted it
with water-resistant spray,
so that's why the water is behaving like that.
- [Teacher] How do you do the sensing?
- That's the camera.
- [Teacher] The camera!
- [Chenhe] Yeah.
- My name is Yiyao,
and this is my physics project called Life in a Nutshell.
There is two parts.
The first part is a series of sculptures.
They have 13 from birth to death as a cycle.
The second part is an interactive installation.
People can interact with it,
and they need to make a pose
exactly like what the sculpture shows,
and then they will become part of the character
to experience different stages of life.
(peaceful electronic music)
- I'm Bora Aydingtug.
This is Feedback Mirror.
Made in processing.
It's using the letter I to visualize the camera image.
It's also measuring the overall image
to create some sort of feedback.
There are two different angles.
One is the angle that's mapped
to the brightness of the camera image.
The other one is the brightness data of the overall image.
So, if the elements started touching each other,
they start doing these recursive patterns.
- It's called I Can't Breathe.
It's a homage piece to Eric Gardner's last words
in the documentation of how he died.
It's a data visualization piece
of black deaths at the hand of police brutality.
Essentially what happens is this screen goes through
the days of a calendar year,
and on a day where there were no documented deaths
of black lives, the lungs breath gently.
On a day where, as we're witnessing right now,
somebody lost their life--
A person of color lost their life to the hand of an officer.
The calendar pauses.
The lungs completely deflate, and shrivel, and crunch.
Then very, very slowly reinflate
before the calendar moves to the next day.
That continues over the course of,
in this iteration, one month,
accounting for 27 deaths.
But, I actually have a data set
that accounts for every day between now,
moving backwards to January 2013,
which is accumulative of 1,742 deaths,
80% of which have had no judicial investigation,
and 73% which were unarmed.
My next iteration will hopefully
account for that entire data set.
It takes two hours just to witness January 2018 alone.
That's what I have today.
- Hi!
My name is Jim Schmitz,
and this is my project, it's my thesis project at ITP.
My thesis is about applying a style transfer
to 360 imagery.
A style transfer is a computational technique
where you can reimagine a photograph
in the style of a painting.
Using images from Google Street View,
I am able to create art that forms a connection--
That inspires a viewer to connect with the actual locations.
The neat thing about this is that
the style is even and continuous.
There are no seams.
Which is different from the way
that other style transfers end up
when they're applied to 360 imagery.
(happy jazzy music)
- My name is Stefan.
Stefan Skripak.
- So what you're looking at is a USB device
that is connected--
That reacts to your browser usage, your internet usage.
If you visit a bandwidth-heavy website,
it will switch from what it's in now,
which is cooling mode,
which is actually cooling the inside to heating.
When you--
What's in here is actually an iceberg shaped ice cube.
So, when you switch to heating mode,
it dramatically increases the speed
at which the iceberg melts.
Once enough of it has melted,
it will actually trigger a simulated short circuit,
which leads to all the monitors shutting off,
and prevents you from using the device any further.
- Hi!
My name is Yang and I'm a second-year student.
I'm graduating, and this is my thesis project.
It's called Magical Pencil.
The idea is, whatever you draw in this game becomes real.
You don't need to find an item when you need it.
Whenever you need something, you just draw it.
You can use it solve puzzles on your journey.
Let's see like, you can drive a van.
Yeah, let's drive.
So, keep going.
- [Person Off-Screen] Yeah!
- [Yang] Yeah!
- My name's Lauren Race.
I'm a designer and I used participatory design
with five low-vision and blind designers and makers
to convert all the material
that's used to teach physical computing at ITP
to tactile.
These are the original symbols from the p-comp site.
I printed them out,
and I ran them through what's called a Swell-Form machine,
which reacts to carbon and black ink,
causing it to puff up.
This is the 11th iteration of each symbol
using participatory design.
What happened after that was
it became like a funnel.
So, if somebody needed a schematic that was tactile,
they'd come to me.
And I realized I was the only one making them,
so what I did was I created a style guide with templates
so teachers and students and designers
can come in and use the templates
to make their own tactile schematic.
- My name is Tinayi,
and this is a project for a team of three.
Helen and Chunhan, they're also in this project.
We're making a music box for our children
specifically age from four to six.
We just want to deliver a very playful experience
to encourage them to be more interested with music-making,
and also maybe become DJ or composer when they're young.
(flute-like music)
- My name is Ada.
This project is called Sonic Cubes.
This is an instrument--
A set of instruments I made for a final performance
I did for this class sound and space
using a 17 speaker setup.
(electronic music changing with block configuration)
(calm jazzy music)
- My name is Kemi.
Adekemi Sijuwade.
I have a multi-modal thumb piano
that you can play in the browser live several ways.
Uses facial recognition to allow you to play.
The other way of playing is with a touch screen.
- My name is Billy Bennett
and I have a p5 sketch with some particles
which you may recognize from the Nature of Code series.
(people laughing)
But, yeah, I rigged up this musical wand
to play music as you swing it across,
of Hailu Mergia, who's an Ethiopian jazz artist.
He has this kind of rolling right hand style
in his music that I try to mimic with this wand,
so you don't skip any notes.
- I'm Ella!
Nice to meet you guys.
I'm graduating this year, and this is my thesis project,
which is called Breath We Live.
This is a breathing meditation for one to two person,
in a very dark and immersive studio.
The purpose of this is to allow people to
practice their breathing meditation
and how this breathing as a primary note
is linked to nature and environment.
That we always notice that our breathings
were part of the nature.
But we don't see it right away.
So, I wanna use breathing as a part of a way to
allow people to understand
their breathing meditation activity,
and also understand that these small changes of breathings
affecting the environment in a more impactful way.
- I'm Casey Conchinha, and this is p5.js Shaders.
I worked on it with my partner Louise Lessel.
It's essentially a collection of examples
of shaders in p5 that are basically--
And a guide to basically show people what they can do
with shaders in p5.
Why they'd wanna use the shaders in p5
versus your load pixels function.
I have them all running in my browser,
and it's not slowing down at all.
They're very performative,
which is one of the main reasons why you'd wanna use them.
- My name is Anna.
I'm a first-year.
My project is Apron Video Controller.
'Cause when I'm cooking,
I'm usually watching a YouTube video,
but I don't wanna touch my iPad with my greasy hand,
so if I'm wearing this apron, I don't need to touch it.
I can control video with this apron.
Playing the video.
And then pause, play, whatever I want.
Then if I miss some part, I can go back, backward.
Also, I can control the volume, like a zipper.
Louder.
And then quieter.
- Everybody, I'm Elizabeth.
I worked on a project where
I looked for people in the Library of Congress
who are featured in the New York Times
as overlooked obituary feature.
I put together a data set of these 16 people,
who are about half the people
who have been recently given obituaries,
only for the first time.
Some people--
You might be surprised that they didn't
receive an obituary at the time they died.
The questions down here correspond to the buttons
that you can press to find out, like,
are they in the Library of Congress at all?
Do they have a name authority file?
Do they have a subject heading?
- Hi, everyone!
My name's Chelsea Chen.
This is my project.
I called it Now You Are In The Conversation.
The reason why I made it is because
I'm so tired about people taking photos
in museums and exhibitions.
Sometimes they really don't care about the artwork itself.
They only wanted to pose on Instagram.
So, I made a very Instagrammable piece.
When you're trying to take a photo of it, it stops.
It stopped. - It stopped.
- And when you put your phone down...
- I'm James Hosken.
This is 100 Days of Spaceships.
The class was 100 days of making,
which was about iterating on a theme.
So, for 100 days, each day, you have to make something new.
Part of the class is about trying to break free
from the chains of perfectionism.
It doesn't matter if it's good or not.
You just have to post it.
Another part of the class was posting it publicly.
This was all on Instagram.
Each of these posters represents two days
of spaceship making.
The first day was modeling a spaceship,
and the second was animating the spaceship.
- My name is Sukanya, and this is a collaboration with Nick,
who is run away right now.
It's a project surveillance.
It's essentially a router.
The router leaks liquid as data is leaking
to third parties as you browse the internet.
We go to Buzzfeed for example.
These are the sort of domains it's hitting,
which are not Buzzfeed.
These are third parties.
As you can see, there's this liquid that starts running.
It's basically just to shed light on the fact
that there's this whole industry going around
on surveillance for profit,
and sort of tracking your behavior online,
and creating these profiles of you.
(calm jazzy music)
- This is a location-tracking / surveillance project.
The goal is to identify devices,
and see where they are on the floor.
What we're doing is, we're basically scanning the NYU wifi,
and looking at different access points,
and seeing who's connected to which access point.
If we know who's connected to which access point,
we kind of know, in that radius
where the devices are located.
We used a monitor mode wireless adapter
with huge antennas, and a thing called Aircrack.
It's an open-source software which runs on a Linux machine,
which is used for penetration testing.
- My name is Yuguang,
and my project is called Cats.
It is my experiment on generate of film
completely using AI.
This is the very, very first step of doing that.
What you're seeing now is my first experiment
in using a newer network to combine
human portraits with different things
that are ubiquitous in our lives.
What you see at the top is include
human portrait mixed with cat emojis, donuts,
power outlet, and ripped jeans.
The video is showing how we can do animations
for cat and human portrait mixtures.
- I'm Jiwon.
I'm Anna.
This is a small 'zine that we made
about the introduction to surveillance technologies.
It's basically for the general audience,
so anyone can understand it.
It's basically going through
something as simple as a Google search.
So, what happens in the internet ecosystem
when you type something in Google,
and how, basically, the internet works.
Also, the repercussions of it.
How you can be tracked.
What cookies are.
And basically just being more aware
about your privacy on the internet.
- My name is Jacque Liu, and I created a project called
Eniac Girlz Program and Pretend.
What it is is a speculative play set for girls
to get them interested in programming.
The play set also references the history of inequality
surrounding women and computing.
The toy is meant to evoke the motions of being a programmer,
and the first electronic computer, the Eniac.
- Basically, what this is, is um--
So as you may or may not know,
World Pride is happening at the end of June,
and it is for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
Basically, that was a huge--
It was a little bar fight,
or very famous thing that happened
that basically launched the Gay Civil Rights,
the LGBT Civil Rights Movement in New York.
The arch in Washington Square Park was built in 1892
for the commemoration of President Washington.
Basically, it was there to celebrate the founding fathers
on the centennial anniversary of his inauguration.
On the half centennial anniversary
of the LGBT Civil Rights start,
what better way than to commemorate
the founding mothers and fathers of the movement.
- Hi.
My name is Veronica Alfaro
- I'm Adrian Bautista.
- I'm Jingyi Wen
And we still have two other group members.
- What you're gonna be doing,
is you're gonna be joining the CRISPR Detective Unit today.
Your goal is to find members of the Metastasis Mafia.
These are the genes that cause cancer cells to metastasize
and spread throughout the body.
Welcome to your first mission.
This is the pre-CRISPR era,
where genetic research was a little bit cumbersome,
not always accurate, not always the most efficient.
To illustrate that point, what we're going to be doing here
is using your sense of touch.
You're going to be trying to find the bad genes.
The ones that cause metastasis.
As you can see, it's a little cumbersome.
It's a little frustrating.
And that's what editing DNA was like pre-CRISPR.
It wasn't always the best.
- Detectives, you will come back to now.
And you have the help of CRISPR technology.
Your job will be much easier, and much faster.
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