An altar for our small stories.

In Our Own Words is about the stories that make us who we are, and finding ways of sharing them. Part altar and part confessional, it was…

Intuitively editing generated texts

Created for Reading and Writing Electronic Text, Allison Parrish || Github Repository My previous experiments have focused on using the…

This week, I tested the lights we purchased in my home, pointing them up towards the ceiling and down onto an open book. upreading The…

Test, test, test

Altar V2 After I figured out the direction of my altar with my cardboard prototype, I started two new avenues of prototyping: functionality…

for Adjacent No. 10, Ecoscope

I wrote a piece for ITP’s online journal, Adjacent. Published March 2023. Notes becomes an archive of your lost words, of all the moments…

Sketches and Planning

Shuang and I brainstormed a lot this week, and have settled on a project that may be a bit of a stretch. We’ve decided to tackle the task of…

RWET Assignment No. 4

This is a poem that forgets itself every time you try to remember it. Written about retrieval-induced distortion, this poem reflects the…

(at least I turned it on and off)

Requirements: Control a Hue bulb/lamp (check!) Allow for on/off, and adjustment. (oops) https://youtube.com/shorts/Vkv7ah0Aj7U I’ve used…

A proof of concept

Class Feedback Having a talking altar feels simultaneously comforting and cold. Having this live on a Raspberry Pi (versus a full laptop, or…

It's like dogs but for dogs

The genre study: Choose a genre or form of writing. This can be anything from a literary genre to a meme format. Gather a small number of…

As I’ve been traveling for the last 6 days, I haven’t had a chance to set up a 24 hour timelapse. I’m still interested in doing so though…

S h a d e s

In which things change, again.

Welcome back, everyone. We’re in the swing of the new semester, and things have been progressing. Prototypes V1 Over the break I took the…

Assignment 2

Assignment 2: The digital cut-up. Create a notebook program that reads in two or more texts and stores portions of them in Python data…

A 12V test circuit for lighting control

This week, we were tasked to creating a test rig for a 12V DC lamp. A few of us went in on a set of E26 bulb sockets, which were…

Neopixel Candle

I LOVE CANDLES. I have so many candles. One of my favorite projects from last year was based on interacting with fake candles. I also make…

RWET Assignment 01

See the Jupyter Notebook here. In these poetry generators, I aimed to explore both the description and a recipe for a cultural food, Chinese…

Interruptable fading LED

I put together a rotary encoder controlled LED. The rotation of the encoder controls the speed at which the fade occurs, and the button…

Attention is a very powerful thing. What do we pay attention to? How do we pay attention to it? Does our attention change the nature of that…

On photographs and memory

Photograph on acetate, laser-cut acrylic, rear-projected hand-drawn video What I Can Remember is an exercise in retelling stories. It…

explorations in objecthood

what identities do you choose to wear? is an exploration in embodying memory and identity. Fragments of material are suspended in a clear…

Exercise in parametric design & CNC fabrication

I wanted a catch-all table by my front door. It’s a narrow space with a few requirements: Fits in this area (14 inches wide) without…

Narrative and Obscuring

Explorations in narrative, and how interventions change experience. I began this set of exercises with this photo: one of many sent to me by…

What is a prototype? A prototype is something that answers a question, tests something out. ~ Pedro G. C. de Oliveira This week I did a few…

With your eyes closed

A bespoke experience for Adnan, based on a dream he described to me. See last week’s moodboard for more context. The intention of the…

Silent Hero, Nostalgia, Mediated Memories, La Sangre Es Una Semilla

In our heads alone, or in the keepsakes we gather around us? How do these memories age, change, mutate, transform, channel, accumulate…

Yet another experiment

For this week’s skillbuilder, I started by thinking about what the advantages and limitations of the 4-axis are. Things the 4-axis is good…

Playing with Plywood

This week’s attempt at a mallet was a series of failures experiments with plywood. Let me tell you, I came into this skillbuilder with the…

Naomieh Joven, Ocan Vuong, Charlie Tyrell, Fabiola Ferrero

I’m struck by the idea of attention. What do we pay attention to, and how does it change that thing? Our experience of that thing? Using…

a moodboard for Adnan's dream

Adnan described a dream to me with a moody, noir attitude. It begins by the seaside; waves crashing, but not visible. It’s the knowledge of…

The beginning of a pipeline and collecting thoughts

Things I did this week for thesis: Set up an interviewing pipeline for folks living outside their parental/heritage culture, sent out a call…

Dialog in the Dark, Dream of the Red Chamber

Reflection on Dialog in the Dark, through [article]. How do you think of discomfort as site? It’s interesting to me that this exhibition…

Introduction to Medium of Memory

We viewed the chosen photos first without captions, then with. It reminded me of the “space to place” exercise we did in Outside the Box…

Getting back on that lathe

A little simpler this week, what with being out of town. I wanted to make a rough vacuform buck to test out some ideas for a styrene lamp. I…

An exercise in attention

This week, I created an experience in the Moynihan Tran Hall, Platform 13. The thing that struck me about Moynihan train hall was the stark…

A first crack at a CNC Plywood table

Check out this latest update for my CNC table! I want a side table as a catch-all table by my front door. It’s a narrow space with a few…

Testing joints made on the CNC

A quick CNC joinery test, in prep for my future side table. I’m inspired by this table: I decided to test out what the slat-to-base joint…

A 49 day project in daily practice

Over the course of 7 weeks over June-August 2022, I joined a cohort of ITP and ITP Camp students in a 49 day challenge to thematic work…

A Shopbot Skillbuilder

Inspired by these Thing Spots, I decided to mill out a simple tray. I found this solid piece of 1-inch thick ply in the “scrap” pile to…

Finishing & Tolerances in Acrylic Milling

This week on the Bantam, I tried 3 new things: Milling & gluing acrylic Aiming for a press fit Sanding and finishing acrylic I aimed to…

Desktop CNC Routing

Round 1 - Legacy Software Test I worked with Sammy and Lauren to do a simple first test, designing basic shapes in illustrator and cutting…

Getting familiar with hand routing

This week’s adventure is working with the router. Inspiration & Planning I decided to riff on replicating the simple circle that we made in…

An exploration in injection moulding for PLA recycle processes

Presented with a challenge to re-think plastic recycling, I collaborated with Jinny Kang to create a proposal for PLA recycling via…

A responsive kinetic sculpture

laser-cut ply // found materials // Arduino (Adafruit ESP32 Feather, Servos & Multiplexer) // MaxMSP // Kinect Azure p l a n t is a kinetic…

Embroidery as embodying

Embroidery thread, acrylic yarn, repurposed canvas bag We are always weaving the cloth of life, entwining ourselves with others, spinning…

Butterflies and Tip-tapping

In the following labs, I worked with Sammy and Martha to explore haptic sensation. Lab 1 - Hello Haptics I’m surprised how straightforward…

A blue-sky ride proposal

I’ve once again teamed up with Leigh and Linnette, this time to bring you a proposal for Expedition Earth, a thrilling dark ride set on…

Nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan

This week Linette, Leigh and I teamed up to bring forth a truly meme-y experience. Behold, the Nyan Herd. In this experience you get to fly…

When you can't find the words

In & Against Conversation was an experience created for Andrew Schneider’s Performing Reality class at ITP NYU, in collaboration with Megha…

Proof-of-concept for physical-digital interactions

I seem to have a bit of a theme with plants; here’s a plant that lives somewhere in between the digital and physical world. Arduino code is…

Basic remote OSC control with Max MSP

The slider works upside-down because the servo was placed that way (0 is with the bunny highest, 180 lowest). For this setup, I used…

A test in expressive mechanics

This week’s prompt: “Make an … object that expresses emotion towards a person”. Sneaky Houdini is a cute little rabbit with a big…

Unreal VR Interactions

Dear Angelica I really enjoyed Angelica. Though it was a little unsettling to have the entire scene move with my head, once I got used to…

Absurdity and a socket diagram

A simple socket test A created this site that allows multiple people to use their phones (or other portable devices) to draw on a shared…

A spooky serenade

Inspired by my love for Disney Imagineering, this piece brings a taste of The Haunted Mansion to life. The experience surrounds a piece of…

VR Funhouse and logistical tasks

VR Funhouse I played the Oculus version on a Rift 2 (note to future self: it also works on a Quest 2, so no need to fiddle with the cameras…

A Hide and Seek Shrine

A test in experience prototyping using Unreal. While the majority of my interest lies in the creation of real-world physical installations…

A collaboration with Shirley Wu

Bloom Together is a collaboration with Shirley Wu exploring the use of light as an interaction tool. Roughly fabricated to resemble a small…

Exploring light with movement

Created in collaboration with Nunnapat ‘Spencer’ Ratanavanh and Bruce Mk Arthur. Light as Medium was an exploration in creating motion…

An AR Diorama

Collaborators: Francisco Navas and Josephine Wang Original Art: Gabriel Alcala Artist Gabriel Alcala created this beautiful piece, a diagram…

Synchronous Serial Communication and Arduino

This week, our PCOMP class learned about synchronous serial communication. It was pretty straightforward to use I2C to connect with and…

Candles call the spooky serenade

This piece evolved into my larger project, Grim Grinning Ghosts. Read more about that piece as it was created for the ITP 2021 Winter…

A little stop motion project

This week, we experimented with some stop motion! I worked with Tash Trebisacci to create these tiny little animations. To continue my…

Basic Serial Communication

Getting Everyone Talking This week was a dip into serial communication. Still wired, but much more talkative. Getting basic serial…

A first project in Runway

For this exercise I wanted to explore “recreating” as an idea. The original clip is from a competition in a recreational, semi-historical…

Some thoughts on ML models and how to use them

This week, we’re looking at RunwayML. Three models and three concepts: Kandinsky Model This model style-transfers from the artwork of…

A mechanized diorama

And here it is! Project 1; a sweet little nighttime diorama! It might be a bit of a little escape for me, living here in a big city. See…

PWM, Servos, and a project update

This week, some PWM and starting with servos! Servo This was pretty straightforward. A simple map from analog input to motor output. I found…

An example and its issues

We talk a lot about deepfakes and generated media when it comes to synthetic media, but a subtler form of synthetic media is augmenting pre…

I/O, basic Arduino

This week, we introduce basic I/O with Arduino programming! It sounds funny, but this week’s work is way more intuitive to me than last week…

Ethics in art and ownership

On the Rights of the Molotov Man - Susan Joy Reading this article, I realized that I too have seen this man spraypainted on walls and…

Sound Walk No. 1, Coming Home

A first assignment for ITP’s Hypercinema class; a sound walk. I collaborated with classmates Toni(Yujung) Jung and Catherine Dinh to create…

A brief introduction to Physical Computing

Basic DC Setup Let us embark on the first steps of physical computing. First, a bit of setup: Above is a basic DC input setup with…

Exploring the psychoacoustic and physical phoenomena of sound

What is hearing? What is listening? The Sound of Yellow (full audio available here) This piece brought me in with a warm, bright feeling…