The Research of Knifeandfork:
In Between Technology and Participation
Digicult: Digimag, 2010 March
Mattia Casalegno interviews Knifeandfork about their work, methodology, and relationship to place.
In Between Technology and Participation
Digicult: Digimag, 2010 March
Mattia Casalegno interviews Knifeandfork about their work, methodology, and relationship to place.
Designers and Citizens as Critical Media Artists
Urban Omnibus, 2009 July
Brian House and Jesse Shapins were two of the co-creators of Yellow Arrow, an early locative media arts project and social software platform. In summer 2008, they co-taught the studio/seminar "Critical Urban Media Arts" at Columbia. Here, they discuss the conceptual background of the course and the pedagogical methods they developed, including Periplurban, a new platform for urban media research.
Urban Omnibus, 2009 July
Brian House and Jesse Shapins were two of the co-creators of Yellow Arrow, an early locative media arts project and social software platform. In summer 2008, they co-taught the studio/seminar "Critical Urban Media Arts" at Columbia. Here, they discuss the conceptual background of the course and the pedagogical methods they developed, including Periplurban, a new platform for urban media research.
Subversive Mobile Storytelling
Unpublished, 2007 November
This paper proposes that SMS text-messaging on mobile devices can serve as a narrative medium that subverts traditional boundaries for the experience of literature. As an interface to a computer system, SMS can serve as a 'literary machine' capable of the same kind of combinatoric language experiments conducted by the Oulipo or as a mechanism for interactive fiction inspired by games such as Zork. However, the nature of a mobile device used in an urban environment also invokes the Situationist International's concern with the subjectivity of place, and the imperative poetics of text-messaging suggest its use as a contemporary tool in the kind of nontheatrical performance prefigured by Fluxus. Uniquely positioned to combine these methodologies, SMS allows the transposition of literature into the experiential domain, animating fictional text with everyday life.
Unpublished, 2007 November
This paper proposes that SMS text-messaging on mobile devices can serve as a narrative medium that subverts traditional boundaries for the experience of literature. As an interface to a computer system, SMS can serve as a 'literary machine' capable of the same kind of combinatoric language experiments conducted by the Oulipo or as a mechanism for interactive fiction inspired by games such as Zork. However, the nature of a mobile device used in an urban environment also invokes the Situationist International's concern with the subjectivity of place, and the imperative poetics of text-messaging suggest its use as a contemporary tool in the kind of nontheatrical performance prefigured by Fluxus. Uniquely positioned to combine these methodologies, SMS allows the transposition of literature into the experiential domain, animating fictional text with everyday life.
Mixed-Reality Narrative with Mobile Phone Text-Messaging
Chalmers University, 2006 August
Presented in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Sciences
This thesis presents a domain-specific programming language and infrastucture for the creation of interactive, nonlinear narratives experienced via text-messaging on a mobile phone. It is intended to embody a design approach developed through a series of projects exploring both nonlinear narrative and text-messaging as an artistic medium, and is inspired both by the avant-garde performance work of the last century and recent advanced in the theory of media arts.
Chalmers University, 2006 August
Presented in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Sciences
This thesis presents a domain-specific programming language and infrastucture for the creation of interactive, nonlinear narratives experienced via text-messaging on a mobile phone. It is intended to embody a design approach developed through a series of projects exploring both nonlinear narrative and text-messaging as an artistic medium, and is inspired both by the avant-garde performance work of the last century and recent advanced in the theory of media arts.
Realtime Neural-Network Classification of Musical Gestures
Columbia University, 2002 May
Senior research
In Western art music, a conductor indicates features of a piece that are rhythmically dependent in order to keep the group synchronized; such events are expressed within the framework of time-signature and communicated through a more-or-less established set of gestures. Using realtime video input, it is conceivable that these gestures can be tracked and interpreted by an automatic system. This paper proposes a neural net classifier that learns the conducting gestures of unique individuals. A practical system is outlined that provides realtime timing information to a performance mechanism, allowing computer-generated music to be conducted alongside traditional instruments.
Columbia University, 2002 May
Senior research
In Western art music, a conductor indicates features of a piece that are rhythmically dependent in order to keep the group synchronized; such events are expressed within the framework of time-signature and communicated through a more-or-less established set of gestures. Using realtime video input, it is conceivable that these gestures can be tracked and interpreted by an automatic system. This paper proposes a neural net classifier that learns the conducting gestures of unique individuals. A practical system is outlined that provides realtime timing information to a performance mechanism, allowing computer-generated music to be conducted alongside traditional instruments.