Urban Bloom - New Media Public Art on Display in Boston


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Relational Art and Complex Systems

Producing meaning collectively: similarities between complex systems and relational aesthetics

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How Networks Shape Human Behavior

How high resolution measures of interpersonal interactions can inform successful group design

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Modular Design for Longevity

We can design for sustainability, robustness, and flexibility by focusing on the environment and problems as processes occurring at characteristic time scales- and address each time scale with modular components.

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Lighthouse

Interactive public art in downtown Boston

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everything incredible

An open source album of minimal generative code experiments, with sound produced by a piezo.

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Rapid Prototyping, Creativity, and Open Hardware Workshop

Using the Arduino as a tool for physical ideation.

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It’s about time a mobile phone with out of the box meshing capabilities existed. The cost of it could not be subsidized by a data plan, since communication with it would be free (no need for cell towers). The only ongoing cost would be the electricity needed to charge the battery, and any repair costs. [...]

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Sunglasses are an accepted form of pseudo masking in society. Creating other pseudo masks we can wear to embody different characters, especially when we dance.

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Use the pointer in a web page to make cool sounds, like a synth control. Like have a box and when you move the cursor in it, based on the movements, different sounds happen.

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Making portable speakers to play experimental electronic out in the woods, or under a bridge.

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Explore more sound modulation techniques.

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Painting a wall, all the while taking pictures of the progression. The painting will continue to adapt, and pictures will be taken. Afterwards a website will be created to document the growth, where each step of growth will be made in a region by clicking on that part of the image.

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A genetic algorithm of cellular automata rules in one dimension to model the s&p 500.

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