Work for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program
This week we were assigned to read Chapter One of Noise by Jacques Attali and also design an album release poster for one of our favorite music artists. Choosing a musician to design for was challenging. I ended up selecting LCD Soundsystem because their music has been appearing frequently in my Spotify playlists, and I […]
The distinction made by Bell Hooks in “Performance practice as a site of opposition” between performance by African-Americans for survival and performance as art reminded me of events described by Isabell Wilkerson in Caste. Historically enslaved people were made to perform for their survival to the benefit of their captors, such as needing to put […]
Over the last couple of days I made significant progress adding features and polishing up my final project. You can try it here and also in an embed at the bottom of this page. Sound During previous feedback Shawn pointed out that some unwanted noise from the P5 oscillator was likely due to needing to […]
This week I continued work on my final project for Live Web. My goal was to integrate Socket.io into an existing P5.js sketch I created in The Nature of Code to enable multiple users on the same canvas. After our earlier assignments in Live Web adding the basic Socket.io server code to the P5 sketch […]
I love games and during the pandemic found myself playing more online games as a way of staying in touch with friends and family. Purpose To create an online multiplayer game that is accessible and easy to play. Inspiration The ease of use for Jackbox Games is especially appealing to me. To play one user […]
Using getUserMedia and HTTPS Lauren Chong and I were able to make a simple video streaming site that ties a user’s mouse movement to their video camera feed. To make the video stream more manageable the video resolution and frame rate are reduced in the user’s browser before being sent to the sever. In the […]
In Live Web this week we learned about Web Sockets, which are TCP sockets in a thin HTML wrapper. To demonstrate Web Sockets we were tasked with implementing a demo chat application then developing it further on our own. First I setup a server on Digital Ocean, which was pretty similar to past experience setting […]
This week was our first meeting for Live Web. I am excited for this course for a number of reasons, most significantly that I want to learn more about facilitating real-time collaboration online. Toward the beginning of class we were asked to consider what kinds of media we consume live. Things like sports, concerts, or […]
For my freeform project in Energy I have been working to consolidate what I learned from replacing the firmware on my Tuya based smart plug into a GitHub repository. I have titled the repo Tuya-Ardiuno and it is online here. This was my first time creating my own GitHub repository so I have been learning […]
Over the last week I have made considerable of progress on my Solar powered fractal tree. Enclosure The bamboo plywood from Inventables arrived! Mai Claro, Daniel Ryan, Benjamin Moll, and a number of other ITP students helped to get me up and running for my first time on the laser cutter. I cut initially out […]