Design of Unusual Media

Ongoing assignments and experiments in image processing using openframeworks can be found here for the Winter. [http://a.parsons.edu/~magicplusplus/students/cameron/]

The Punk Rock Keypad explores the meaning of individuality in the context of eroding privacy and increased digital publicity. The device uses exposed safety pins to transmit serial data to a wired network worn on the body. A wireless transmitter embedded in the jacket communicates with a mobile phone using special software that allows the wearer to communicate more expressively. Oi!  read more »

I got the Sony SSC-M183 camera ($80) and a manual focus/iris lens ($30) from Canal Alarm (link, map). I had to get the lens because the camera doesn't come with one. Evan Roth has mentioned in the past that its good to have an auto-iris manual iris (Thanks Theo) on a camera when doing tracking.  read more »

In April I'll be presenting a series of my interactive artworks at the FITC Design & Technology Festival in my hometown of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It'll be good!

"A conceptual overview of a body of interactive artwork that integrates physical interfaces in unconventional, and often funny ways. Projects that will be discussed include a creative writing application designed for the year 3000, a game that can only be played while smoking, a bluetooth keypad for the punk rock set, and a digitally-augmented dartboard for those with supervillainous tendencies."

[Satirical Interfaces @ FITC Toronto 2008]

The current Dartmaps prototype catches input from darts with infrared LEDs in them and can control Google Earth through a variety of methods. This allows users to navigate and interact with Google's geographic database with more aggressive and supervillainous interaction.

Leave Britney Alone!

Youtube video block party, Bushwick, Brooklyn 02 Oct, 2007.

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A particle-system writing tool by Mike Edwards and myself. As seen in Brooklyn.

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A Google Earth-based chronicle of Canadian author, Farley Mowat’s journey to Siberia in the 1960s.

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