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Here is a list of all DA2 Spring 2019 student blogs, feel free to browse through them for insights and inspiration. Hailey Cade -...

Project 2: Alive Enough (Motion & the Body) Conceptual Umbrella: Embodiment, memento mori, flesh, physicality, mortality, carnal presence; finite, fragile, temporal Key Themes: The body as mechanism; movement as life; vulnerability and decay; repetition, strain, and fatigue; Frankenstein logic; visible seams and repair Technical Focus: Servo motors and controlled motion; potentiometers and sensors; mechanical translation; remix and assemblage using found objects Imagine: obje

Part 1: Planning the Layout & Permanent Wiring Before you solder a single joint or commit anything permanently, you need a plan. Interactive light artworks aren’t just visual objects—they’re systems . How you power, route, expose, and secure those systems directly affects how the work functions, how long it survives, and what it communicates. This phase is about thinking like an artist and  a builder . 1. Choosing the Right Power Supply Power is not just a number on a label.

To start the lab, we will look over a variety of sensors and documentation oh how to use them. Found Objects, Cardboard, and the Art of Prototyping Before we talk about precision, polish, or laser-cut perfection, we need to talk about housing —where electronics live, and what that container communicates. Electronics do not need a “perfect” enclosure to begin meaning something. Some of the most compelling interactive artworks start in improvised containers : cardboard, thrift-

Today we will start by building our first circuit, BLINK! Blink | Arduino Documentation The Blink circuit is the simplest Arduino project: an LED is turned on and off at a steady interval using a few lines of code. An Arduino sends a HIGH signal to the LED to turn it on, waits for a short delay, then sends a LOW signal to turn it off—repeating this loop endlessly. It’s often called the “Hello World” of electronics  because, like the first program written in any new programmin

"New Life With You", vinyl, digital print, LED's & wood, Corrina Espinosa, 2018 wit Project 1: Gray Matter Sparks (Light & the Mind) Conceptual Umbrella : Psychology, dreams, consciousness, ideas, thought, inner states Key Themes : light as thought, illumination and obscurity, attention, memory, imagination, dreams and waking states, fragile, flickering interior worlds Technical Focus : LEDs and light control , Interaction through buttons, switches, or simple sensors, Basic c

Art As Solution: “The old world is dying… but as artists, we get to decide what the new world will be like." The systems we inherited (data systems, AI systems, surveillance systems) were never  built for us. These systems are breaking, collapsing, glitching under their own weight. Don't forget in all the fear that collapse creates space . And in that space, artists — not corporations, not technologists — are the ones with the cultural imagination, emotional intelligence, and

AI Tools Here’s a list of AI tools that allow you to upload images for remixing, editing, or using as references. I want you to think about these as more than tools, more like collaborators. Run your images in and out of multiple processes, including digital tools like Adobe, and any apps that you already use. Also consider using analog processes like drawing, painting, photography, hand cut collage, etc. Weave them back and forth between AI and your other processes and ta

“This is a cardboard universe, and if you lean too long or too heavily against it, you fall through.” — Philip K. Dick Make a thing ....