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Ancient projects recovered deep from within the archive that exemplify primitive pre-millenial media experiments and tendencies (ie. very early abuses of Flash, rollovers, popups, meta-refresh, RealPlayer, and other flagrant web design sins.)

Student Work

Exemplary work developed by students in studio courses and special projects.

Core Studio 1: Interaction, Fall 2007

Freshmen Programming with Processing

First-year, first-semester Communication Design & Technology students introduced to compuation and creativity through Processing and simple Object Oriented Programming for visual design.

music by David Carroll & Benjamin Green © 2008

The projects on this video represent a few breakthrough experiments by first-year Design & Technology students created during their studio this past Fall of 2007. This studio introduced the practice of programming at the service of visual art and design. Studying Processing as a sofware medium, these students were assigned the task of creating an object oriented interactive sketch based on particle systems, an elaboration of an in-class exercise, or an implementation of an open source based code library. As an initiation into the school of thought that software is a design medium unto itself, rather than a mere design tool, these freshmen enjoyed epiphanies, some emblematized here. Although simple and compact, these projects reveal how the class of 2011 absorbs and embraces the spirit of the Parsons Communications Design & Technology program. By harnessing basic cursor gestures, graceful key-clicks, or generative algorithms, aesthetically pure pixels dance, flutter, and mimic natural dynamics. These explorations represent only the initial birth of design futurists. Consider the expectations of graduating into the next decade.

BFA Senior Thesis in Mobile Media, Spring 2007

“Muzzi” - the interactive pet and music player hybrid

Woody Kwon, BFA Design + Technology, Class of 2007

This video clip demonstrates the concept behind Muzzi, the interactive pet and music player hybrid. As the mobile user plays music, the pet not only dances and performs the music through sound analysis, but also absorbs the qualities of the musical genre as it grows, over listening time. The Muzzi product also offers customization capabilties where owners earn new clothing and accessories for their music player pets. In addition, the mobile device software features a dancing game inspired by music-matching interactions such as Dance Dance Revolution or Guitar Hero, adapted for the mobile interface and the Muzzi concept. This project was developed for Flash Lite and prototypes run on a Nokia N80.

© 2007 Woody Kwon & Parsons The New School for Design

Mobile Media

Info Wraps: mobile informatics research prototype

Jonah Model, BFA Design + Technology, candidate

Somewhere between a web-enabled pocket semantic notebook and a mobile social bookmarking community, Info Wraps prototypes the concept of consuming and occasionally recording small units of information, tagged for easy recall. The concept envisages an interactive tag cloud that enables associative meme storage by arranging terms in meaningful proximities. The directional and numeric pads are used to pan through tag clouds and jump to clusters, respectively.

In addition, a user's memes would be cross-referenced on a z-axis, so one could delve into a social web of interconnections.


Video clip demonstrates a working prototype in Flash Lite that provides a mobile interface for the del.icio.us API via a custom server interface.

© 2008 Jonah Model & Parsons The New School for Design

 

Recent Credential

iPhone Developer University

I have been designated The New School's official Apple iPhone University Developer program Agent and will be administrating the launch of curricula and research towards Cocoa Touch development at the institution, rooted in the Communication Design & Technology degree programs (MFA & BFA).

Apple's University Program provides the legal and certification infrastructure framework to study and teach related to proprietary iPhone product concerns at Parsons the New School for Design. It will alllow us to provision student devices, support a curriculum and ultimately distribute projects on the App Store.

Recent Exhibition

“1000 Cell Phones”

Synthetic Times 2008, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

David Carroll, Benjamin Bacon, Sven Travis and Haiyan Huang with students and faculty from Parsons (New York), Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua (Beijing)

USA and China, 2008, mobile media installation

 

«1000 Cell Phones» playfully visualizes Bluetooth devices discovered within its situated space on multiple video monitors. Devices are represented as abstract discs in dimensional screen space, colored by transcribing the devices unique identifier (MAC Adddress) to a unique color (RGB HEX Value). In addition, the discovered device names animate across the screens, emphasizing the transient nature of the people and the tracking devices they carry, unwittingly broadcasting a unique identifier.

«1000 Cell Phones» is currently installed at Parsons, in the lobbyof the 10th floor of 2 West 13th Street, NYC. Be sure your Bluetooth device is set to ‘discoverable’ to appear on the video screens.

Recent Exhibition

BFA Communication Design & Technology Senior Thesis Exhibition

Chelsea Art Museum

556 W 22nd St
New York, NY 10011
212 255-0719

 

Opening
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
6pm to 8pm

Closing
May 24, 2008

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11am to 6pm
Thursday
11am-8pm

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Director of Multimedia

Second Thought, Inc.

New York

2001 - 2007

Director of Multimedia

thoughtbubble productions

New York

2000 - 2001

MFA Design + Technology

Parsons School of Design
The New School for Social Research
New York

Awarded in year 2000

 

BA Art History + Religion

with highest honors

Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine

Awarded in year 1997
Summa cum laude

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Communication Design & Technology

School of Art, Media & Technology
Parsons the New School for Design
New York, NY 10011