"On Translation: Social Networks" is a work by Antoni Muntadas, produced in part by a group of of SJSU Digital Media students, including myself, for installation at the ISEA 2006/Zero One festival in San Jose, California in 2006. (Article and video by Aaron Siegel)
Information also available on the Zero One site.
My BFA gallery Review project, "MUNG" is a meditation on our understanding of and relationship with the passage of time, issues of disparate scope. The display is a terrain-mapped representation of randomly generated datasets of a series that will take millions of years to complete.
"delta" is an OpenGl-based exploration of the effects of round-off error in floating point computation. The display shows a series of raindrop-like lines as they fall toward the bottom of their environment. At every step, the round-off error slows their movement and makes the prospect of reaching the bottom more unlikely.
Switch is the Journal of New Media produced by the students at the San Jose State University CADRE Laboratory for New Media.
Article published in the Switch Journal of New Media, issue 21.
My NES project was created to address issues inherent in low-resolution or "obsolete" hardware and software. It was created over a period of six weeks using scavenged NES harware, EEPROMs and and a burner. The ROM (Nintendo game binary) is available for download.
This simple bot was created with the Arduino platform, a custom circuit including an h-bridge, and an off-the-shelf toy car. The bot's behavior is limited, however it responds to external stimuli in an attempt to achieve some level of independent action without the need for directly control.
Synaesthesia was a group project involving an entire class (as divided into three groups) over a six-week period. I was involved in writing the display code for the Visual Group. Videos and images, as well as code samples are provided. Please note that the link to this project is a mirrored site which at one time comprised the class's final documentation.
Thinko is a demonstration of the power of Python programming in a networked Windows environment. It is separated into two programs, a client and a display. The client program captures all text that is copied to the clipboard by calling a Win32 capture function. It then uploads this information to my server. The display program downloads the data uploaded by all of the clients (there can be an unlimited number) and displays it in vertical "stacks" of text strings. The 3D environment takes the shape of a circle with the oldest strings at the center. It is very easy to navagate by zooming and moving the camera with the mouse.
This video was shot over two consecutive days via a webcam, pointed out of my apartment window. One frame was captured every minute, for a total of 2880 frames. These frames were compiled into two videos, then combined into their final, vertical format, showing both video simultaneously.
Dots is a simulation of an "autonomous" environment when which each item on the screen moves randomly and independently. When two dots come in contact, they become linked by a line. The lines can be toggled by holding the "shift" key, and cleared entirely by pressing the spacebar.
Clock is a demonstration of timekeeping via ActionScript. When a user visits the site, the current time is accurately displayed in from the century to the second, and progresses accordingly in real-time.
The Screenshot Blog collected screenshots of my desktop at home, compresses them to a single pixel (the average of all the pixels on the screen), calculated their color value and uploaded them to my server via a Python client every half-hour. These screenshots (colors) are displayed via a PHP front-end that catalogs them based on their time taken in a twenty-four hour period. Each line of images is a single day, with the 00:00 on the left side and 23:59 on the right.