Kristen

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• Posted Boxerwood Play Trail to Children Discovering Nature in Northwest Minnesota
  Boxerwood is a Nature Center in Lexington, VA. A staff member developed a Play Trail that is open to the public dawn-to-dusk and features a number of spaces for digging, water play, and exploring....
• Posted Design Principles from Green Hearts to Children Discovering Nature in Northwest Minnesota
  From Green Hearts Institute for Nature in Childhood is located in Omaha, Nebraska. They've put out a nice document of best practices when considering and designing nature-based play spaces. There are some interesting sections on risk, prospect and refuge, water,...
• Posted Indepedent Project Description: Responsive Bus Shelter to new media: making art interactive ~ spring 2011
  For my independent project, I continued to explore the bus shelter idea, working on the technology that I could use to realize it. For this iteration of the bus shelter, I focused on communication: either between two shelters (relevant to...
• Posted Circadian Rhythms Study to new media: making art interactive ~ spring 2011
  Speaking of time... I heard about an interesting study that measured men's and women's circadian rhythms and found that women run on a faster clock than men....
• Posted Interactive Art: Current Thoughts to new media: making art interactive ~ spring 2011
  I've enjoyed our discussions of what constitutes interactive art as we look at the work of different artists... it's definitely made me reconsider -- perhaps broaden, perhaps sharpen -- my definition. I'm currently thinking about interactive art in terms of...
• Posted Conceptual Project Proposal to new media: making art interactive ~ spring 2011
  I feel a bit like a broken record, but I want to continue to think about transit shelters and waiting through this conceptual project, especially with the opportunity to think about it not in terms of a particular technology. The...
• Posted BFA responses: to Gina Chase to new media: making art interactive ~ spring 2011
  To: Gina Chase Hi Gina, I just got a chance to see your work in the soon-to-open BFA show. I really appreciated the way you took one story and played with it in so many ways. I was first drawn...
• Posted MFA feedback to new media: making art interactive ~ spring 2011
  To Sam Hoolihan (MFA): Hi Sam, I had a great time looking at your work in the MFA show today! I wanted to tell you about what happened as I looked at your pieces, especially the two JC Penny photo...
• Posted Bus Shelter Game: Video and Code to new media: making art interactive ~ spring 2011
  Our original goal for a bus shelter-based game involved interaction between bus and shelter, and/or interaction between two or more shelters. We decided to prototype that communication with radio frequency (RF) technology, experimenting with a few different options. We also...
• Posted Artist Presentation: Jim Campbell to new media: making art interactive ~ spring 2011
  This is a follow-up to my artist presentation about Jim Campbell. Campbell worked with film and video early in his career, and now works primarily with LEDs, especially arranged in 3-dimensional fields. Campbell's education as an electrical engineer has given...
• Posted Wireless Communication Options to new media: making art interactive ~ spring 2011
  Good overview of wireless communication from SparkFun. Here are a number of possibilities of ways to communicate wirelessly with (or without) an Arduino: RF Link module Transmitter (connected to an AVR microcontroller, or ATiny or Arduino to create a pulse),...
• Posted Playing with Bus Shelters to new media: making art interactive ~ spring 2011
  (Emily & Kristen) We are going to explore the potential for bus shelters to become spaces of play and games. At this point, we have a number of questions about what will make the interaction appealing, compelling and playful. Some...
• Posted Ice Light Documentation to new media: making art interactive ~ spring 2011
  Video clip Arduino code Wiring diagram I'm happy that I got the eLight prototype to a stage where it could be played with by others. It was a bigger frustration dealing with the ice than I imagined (I was...
• Commented on Project Discription
  Vanessa, I'm excited to see how you develop the idea of scale -- what connections you'll make between the human scale (even if it's more through an object rather than through a whole built-out environment) and the micro scale. It...
• Commented on Jamie's Project Description
  Jamie, I think the way that this gets used in performance will be really interesting to develop... it seems like awareness is important: what does the audience understand about the shoe, what does the performer understand about the hat (especially...
• Posted Icy lights to new media: making art interactive ~ spring 2011
  I'd like to explore the idea of waiting with my sketch, by creating something that responds to the time of your interaction with it. I'm imagining an LED that is embedded in an object that you can pick up and...
• Commented on in [switch] + out [led]
  Here is one more tutorial on switches that Emily found. It's great because it's easy to see the wiring, and if you want to use something besides a push-button, it's easy to convert. Just imagine pulling the push-button out, then...
• Commented on Bright ideas...
  Brett, here's the piece by Bernie Lubell that I thought of as you described your idea... -Kristen...
• Commented on eLight
  I'd like to explore the idea of waiting with my sketch, by creating something that responds to the time of your interaction with it. I'm imagining an LED that is embedded in an object that you can pick up and...