I own a purse, but she wears it.

Following my second semester at NYU ITP, I did an interview with Conor Risch at PDN about one of the projects I’ve been working on for two semesters, theAnti-Paparazzi Clutch Bag. Within a few days after moving to LA, I sent him photos of the recent prototype in action on the streets of LA and he published the story here:
http://www.pdnonline.com
PDN Gear Guide

Model: MarilynMonrobot
Photographed in West Hollywood, CA

Now you can donate your freed up computer processing power to help non-profit companies benefit humanity. BOINC acts just like SETI, and volunteers your computer to do good work for good causes.

Using the results from Google search queries, colors are displayed according to their popularity on the internet. The most popular is white #FFFFFF.

A list of color values was submitted to Google search queries and the results were logged and sorted. Using Processing and Google’s search API allowed the data to be acquired simply by passing one search at a time from the Java Applet. The results were are displayed above in a treemap algorithm and below in a bar graph of frequency.

287 products from an online medication website arranged by hue using a Fermat Spiral pattern

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Original Fermat Spiral Processing code by Elizabeth Fuller

Combining gesture recognition with beer mugs, KaKoozies is a system for creating kinetic art while drinking beer.

The core of the system is the XBee radio and a triple axis acceleromter. They work in tandem to send the 3-axis positions of the mug to a receiver XBee which reads in all of the mug data. The data is read in with Processing and is parsed using a modified version of Tom Igoe’s XBee parser. The resulting values are used to determine the beer-drinking gestures, sip, chug, and cheers. Each gesture is then mapped to a different visual output on a projector screen and accompanied by a sound.

The KaKoozies were first introduced at the NY Times R&D dept. for a final presentation of my Networked Objects class taught by Rob Faludi. A second coming will be shown May 22 at Monkeytown HQ in Brooklyn.

Be vigilant, protect your identity. The anti-paparazzi flash camera detects camera flashes and responds with a 1500 lumen flashback.

Still in prototype form, the Anti-Paparazzi flash camera is part of a modular system that can be embedded into fashion accessories and used in public spaces to deter unwanted flash photography.
(patent pending)

Copncept for an Anti-Touch Light Switch designed to lower energy usage.

Using cues from the natural world ( this light switch concept design embodies the defense mechanism of several animals, including but not limited to rattlesnakes, porcupines, and snails. Conceived for my final project in Animals, People and Those In Between, the switch’s design is an exercise in animal-centric character development with a nod to sustainability
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Object Fetish Atelier (OFA) studies the superficial mapping of our emotional topology. Part performance, part interactive art, the OFA excavates the hidden world of personal artifact fetishes.

In the vein of a documentary art making process, the installation acquires a photograph of your belongings and maps it to an interactive chart where other people may choose to fetishize or cast away your object. OFA is being carried out with Angela Chen as a final project for Dan O’Sullivan’s Computational Cameras at ITP and is built as a Java application.