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The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School is where all kinds of ridiculously creative techno-wizardry happens so it’s pretty exciting they’re seriously opening up the program with a Summer Camp for grown ups. Do check it out. [ITP]
Sometimes it’s the simplest ideas, executed well, that work. At ITP, this controller interface by John Kuiphoff uses magnets placed on a grid to control a Bloom-like synthesiser, play games, and more.
The DraWiing Jackson Pollock project uses an IR detector, a projector and a Wiimote to recreate the drip-and-splatter works of everyone’s favourite hard-living abstractionist. It’s really fun, as you can see.
One of the projects that caught our eye at NYU’s ITP winter show last night (the program that brought you Big Screens) were the Head(banger)phones, accelerometer-equipped to change the music as you bob your head.
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Remember that scene in Aliens with Bishop and the knife? ITP student Aram Chang made a nerve-racking game out of it. In Simon Stabs, you and your opponent take turns sticking a “knife” between your fingers, making a pattern that must be mimicked by the other guy, who then adds to it. You only have a few seconds to stab; one false move and you lose—hopefully just the game and not any fingers. I tested it out, and as you can see from the video, I’m no android. And I didn’t even have the added pressure of Bill Paxton screaming like a sissy. In case you forgot how the pros do it, Bishop’s clip is below. [Aram Chang; ITP 2008]
