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endarchive is an open archive of urban experience built from the street. Using unique QR code tags allowing collaborators to reference their personal experiences of the city in physical space.
After placing a QR tag on an object or location, the tag is scanned using a QR scanner on a mobile device and an entry is created consisting of text and a photograph. Anyone on the street can then view the archive entry by scanning the tag. Endarchive.com is an online repository of user entries in New York City. It was presented during the Festival of Ideas for the New City.

The project is intentionally open; encouraging users to explore the format however they wish. Each archive might used as a located point of memory, commentary, protest, advocacy, etc…
endarchive is a project by Alex Dodge, Yoni Ben Simhon, Eszter Ozsvald, and Mirit Tal presenting at the Festival of Ideas for the New City In association with Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery and The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.

FREE HAIRCUTS IN WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK

Final project for Learning bit by bit. Made with Cyrus von Hochstetter
We assemble data of great haircuts from the Internet and we used this data to create automated recommendations for customers according their sex, face shape, hair type, hair length, age and style.

Follow the Leader is a game that’s meant to have blindfolded players directed by their partners through relatively crowded public areas in order to pickup certain objects, worth varying points, and return to the starting point. The teams of two consist of a Director who cannot move of his own will but can instruct the Actor, who they are tied to and an Actor who is blindfolded and must navigate the space and collect certain objects using only the auditory direction of the starting point. more…

a class on 3d sensing, read more about the experiments with kinect and water

As part of an initiative that we have dubbed The Mass Intercollegiate Memification of Interactive Media Institutions (MiMiMi), a group of us have created a fun video highlighting the best projects from among our classmates and alumni, as well as footage featuring the distinct culture that our program engenders. We present this as a challenge to other top interactive media schools in the hopes of receiving responses that showcase their own programs, bust stereotypes held against them, and highlight the best current projects at their institutions.

project made with Michael Colombo, Suzanne Kirkpatrick and Nara Kasbergen. Big Games.

I took the class Project Development Studio to work on SymbiosisS.
SymbiosisS is an electronic textile designed for public places where people need to wait for long time – such as hospitals or administration offices. The artifact visualizes minutes one spends while waiting; by taking a seat, an animation of pattern-patches start to appear on the three-dimensional carpet-like material.

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SCANNING A SNOWMAN

Spring is coming, snow is melting – how do we reserve snowmen?

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Currently I am taking this class at the NYU Game Center. Read more..
King Lear – an asymmetrical card game, week 4th

It is based on a letter that Cyrus wrote while he was traveling in Greece. The answer was written by me.

made with Cyrus Von Hochstetter, Andrew Lazarow, Matthew Tennie

The morning metro comes, full with raiders – you either squeeze yourself inside the train or just wait for the next one and try to think up a new excuse why you were late.
We spent a lot of time in finding the best solution for getting peoples silhouette. We started building a control background (big light-box) and for the code we used Processing’s OpenCV library. At one point Microsoft’s Kinect was released and we realized it makes everything so simple. Basically in the last week we rewrote the code in openFrameworks and get rid of the background.

made with Nelson Ramon, Matt Sarnak for Motion Capture for Urban Sensing and Gaming

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Cube for Expression is a performance in which four persons create an individual art-pieces of a nude body on the different planes; by the end of the show one realizes that the unique performances become even more powerful as a whole.

made with Valentina Camancho Min Jung Kim, Yonatan Ben-Simhon for Red’s Applications
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LISTEN: legendOfLadyloo

Storyteller is a web application to listen and continue stories. Everybody can participate; that is why the storyline is exciting and unexpected. As the different parts are narrated by somebody else, it is spiced with a special audio experience.

Made with Kemeya Harper for Comlab.

Our assignment for Comlab was to create a stop motion movie. Beat the bugs!

Made with Cyrus von Hochstetter.