Commercial Gallery

Posted by on Mar 21, 2011 in Exhibits | No Comments

I went to 2 galleries in the SoHo area. The first gallery I went to was called the Morrison Hotel. This was a rock and roll photography gallery. It was a very relaxed environment. It mostly focused on 60s and 70s photographs. It had all of the main players, Robert Plant, Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, The Stones, etc. ...

Moma: Abstract Expressionists

Posted by on Feb 28, 2011 in Exhibits | No Comments

The MOMA is redesigning the entrances of there exhibits. The Abstract Expressionist exhibit is a clear example of the new visual style they are going for. They are using large type with high contrasting colors. In this case they flooded 2 walls with this design. I also found it interesting that the automatic doors add ...

Forbidden City: MET

Posted by on Feb 14, 2011 in Exhibits | No Comments

I felt the Forbidden City exhibit at the MET had an interesting flow. I think the first room and the projection were the most successful. I think I learned the most from these areas. They set the stage for what made the space interesting. The emperor was highly influenced by European art styles of perspective and visual trickery. ...

Traveling Exhibits

Posted by on Feb 14, 2011 in Exhibits | No Comments

In the article, the author mentions traveling exhibits giving museums a possibility to refresh there space. Also mentioned is the fact that museums more and more are lending themselves to this sort of work. I think this might be vital to a museums strive to stay relevant. It helps strengthen collections of museums and provide ...

Hall of Human Origins Amnh

Posted by on Feb 7, 2011 in Exhibits | No Comments

The goal of this exhibit is to show the evolution of humans and the growth of human potential through time. The exhibit has a good flow that takes you through human evolution and its out come. The parts that were most interesting to me are: How we got to where we are? i.e. color sight, ...

The Experience Economy

Posted by on Feb 7, 2011 in Exhibits | One Comment

I found it interesting that the two of the examples explored as successful forms of the experience economy are now secondary actors in there respective interactive space. The article opens up with LAN party sites. As a gamer, it was true that it gave you a space with a myriad of games and a social ...

Interpretive Exhibits Assignment 1

Posted by on Jan 31, 2011 in Exhibits | No Comments

Cabinets of curiosities laid the foundation for the 2 main types of museum design. The 2 schools of museum design are what I call “didactic” and “gallery”.  The didactic and the gallery museums stem from the cabinets laying out and organizing their collections into logical groups. They differ in that gallery museums mostly stayed with ...

Android Sms Tracking

Posted by on Nov 2, 2010 in mobilemedia, Tutorials | No Comments

This application grabs gps location with on button and the second button sends a text message to my phone number. package com.zevenwolf.tracking; import android.app.Activity; import android.app.PendingIntent; import android.content.BroadcastReceiver; import android.content.Context; import android.content.Intent; import android.content.IntentFilter; import android.location.Location; import android.location.LocationListener; import android.location.LocationManager; import android.os.Bundle; import android.telephony.SmsManager; import android.util.Log; import android.view.View; import android.view.View.OnClickListener; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.TextView; import ...

How Does Your City Feel?

Posted by on Nov 2, 2010 in understandingnetworks | No Comments

How Does Your City Feel? captures the emotions people feel in their cities by measuring them in the contents of local real-time Twitter messages. What are people feeling in New York City? Seattle? San Francisco? Sad? Happy? Angry? Love? When you visit, please choose a city and click an emotion to see the results. If ...

Connections: Final Project Proposal

Posted by on Nov 2, 2010 in mobilemedia, understandingnetworks | One Comment

Connections is an multiuser interactive installation that uses a mobile web application as a collaboration tool. The system uses various nodes to accomplish this. The mobile application is the input method. A computer with a projector and arduino control the output. A server processes and syncs all communication between the computer, arduino, and mobile application. ...