Young Hae Chang / Heavy Industries for Performing Tech
Jamie asked us to give him some feedback in the form of a Young Hae Chang / Heavy Industries text piece. Mine is over here.
Much more stuff from finals and the show coming soon!
ProphecyBoy
F8 was actually better than the after party so far. The sitar music is better than Thievery Corporation, for sure. #f8 - more on Twitter
Performance Report: The Sparrow
The Sparrow is a fairly straightforward play about a high school girl returning to the town where she was born. But this odd girl is a reminder of a bleak past - ten years earlier, Emily was the only survivor of a horrible bus accident which killed all the children ...
Performance Report: Breathing City
Breathing City is a multimedia installation, depicting an unnamed public square in an urban setting on four monitors, each one running through the same camera-controlled movements at different times of day. The video loops are offset a few seconds, and there was also a fifth monitor which showed several other ...
Performance Report: Time Booth
Recently Daniel and I visited Michael Williams & Melissa Brown's Time Booth. It's an installation that recontextualizes the traditional photo booth by turning it into a performative space. Props, costumes, and backdrops are provided, as well as scrapbooks of storyboards to suggest the kinds of narratives (or non-narratives) which can ...
Mechanical Mask
For a performative object, I've been thinking about a mask with changeable structure. I've been thinking a lot about my work with the Rogue Artists recently, and the Bell article on puppets and masks in the 20th century got me thinking about one of my favorite articles from ages ago ...
Tub Talk
A couple of weeks ago I spent two hours in the middle of the night videoconferencing from my bathtub, thanks to this seemingly simple idea that Ruth and Scott and I cooked up. The notion was to recreate the classic Rock Hudson / Doris Day split-screen bathroom scene from Pillow ...
Senseless
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A few weeks ago, Ruth and Scott and I did a sensory deprivation piece in Washington Square Park. The idea was to have Scott perform the same action - getting from one side of the park into the fountain and standing up on one of ...
Wake 40
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Wake 39
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Interface Achieved
Well, I suppose decided more than achieved, but that sounds less like sexy sci-fi. We settled on using motion tracking as our hand/gesture interface today, after throwing together some wicked cool LED mittens. (We're going to use wrist bands for the final version, but couldn't find any on short notice. ...
Colophon
Turning coffee into feats of intellectual derring-do since 2001
Hi there, I'm Adam Simon. I'm currently finishing up my masters at NYU's ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program), doing research in large scale game design, social networking, urban computing, performative technology, and networked objects. You can find info on my thesis here, and a big list of all my ITP-related posts here
I sometimes work at area/code.
Projects that I've been a part of which you might have heard of include Socialbomb, BootyDialer, The Invention of Murder, Rumplestiltskin (An Aretefactual Performance), & Sharkrunners
You can email me at adam @ [the name of this website].
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Crazy Blind Date: A Quintet for Human & Computer
The appeal of Crazy Blind Date\ is immediately apparent, and seems custom-designed for busy city folks: “on very short notice we can set you up on quick dates with total strangers at public places like bars and coffee shops. You're not allowed to see their picture or even communicate.” Created ...
Social Heroes
My thesis has split into two ideas, something which was foreshadowed at the end of my midterm presentation. I mistakenly assumed that one of the ideas would seem obviously better than the other, but that hasn't happened. Rather, I'm stuck with two ideas which I think explore the ideas I'm ...
PCBs from Eagle to Production
In this post I'm going to explain how to output files from Eagle PCB in order to send your designs off to be professionally fabbed. There are two major steps before this in the process: creating the electrical schematic, and moving from that schematic to a board layout. I'm not ...
Thesis: midterm presentation & playtest
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ITP Thesis: Midterm presentation (with notes) (PDF)
Here's the midterm presentation I just gave in my thesis section (the PDF includes the presenter notes, and is perhaps more comprehensible). I felt like this presentation was a return to form for me - lots of photos, ...
Socialbomb was at ETech
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Socialbomb unit, originally uploaded by doryexmachina.
Last week we took Socialbomb to O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference. We held a BoF session on getting social games away from the keyboard, and ran ...
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