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Emoji Chat with Node JS

November 13, 2014

Node JS Experiments with Emoji Chat.  Galit Lurya and I are coding some crazy sh*t!

In Web Design and Code, Design Tags emoji
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What The F**k Should I Drink?

September 10, 2014

Not sure what cocktail to concoct for your next party? I made a little json and javascript generator to help you decide what to drink. Check out: What The F**k Should I Drink?

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Blinking Monkey Hat

March 17, 2014

This project is a piece of wearable technology created with Arduino and an 8×8 LED matrix by Annelie Koller and Niki Selken. In our quest to program two 8×8 LED matrixes, we wanted to create a piece of wearable tech with blinking eyes.  First we thought of glasses that blinked, but after visiting the discount store to buy the glasses, we found this hat and settled on making a Sock Monkey hat with blinking eyes. Below is our first prototype.

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In Design, Parsons MFADT, Web Design and Code Tags arduino, wearable, wearabletech, physical computing
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Steampunk Clock

March 12, 2014

This is a Steampunk clock I coded in Processing and exported to javascript. It keeps time and the gears jump or rotate with each hour, minute and second.  It doesn't really tell the time, but who needs that out of a clock anyway? 

Click here to see it in action!

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World Translation Foundation: exploring emoji as an abstracted communication form

March 12, 2014

My project deals with the question, how does technology mediate our relationships with each other? Does it contribute or disrupt human closeness  and connection?

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In Major Studio 2, Parsons MFADT, Web Design and Code
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Night Sky Web Animation

February 18, 2014

The Night Sky explores html5, CSS via Sass in the form of a night sky. I used css and the transition tag to create all of the animations you see. Click on the image to interact with the animation. Wait a little bit for the surprise at the end before leaving!

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I’ve been thinking about Annie Dorsen’s Hello Hi There (2010), a performance in which two chatbots sit on stage and talk to each other.

The conversation is inspired by the famous 1971 debate between linguist Noam Chomsky and philosopher
I’ve been thinking about Annie Dorsen’s Hello Hi There (2010), a performance in which two chatbots sit on stage and talk to each other. The conversation is inspired by the famous 1971 debate between linguist Noam Chomsky and philosopher Michel Foucault—a clash between two radically different views of human nature, knowledge, power, and society. Fifteen years later, it feels less like an experiment and more like a prophecy. What’s striking isn’t the technology—by today’s standards the bots were primitive. What’s striking is the question Dorsen was asking: what happens when computation becomes a participant in culture rather than merely a tool? Drawing from transcripts of the Chomsky-Foucault debate, alongside philosophy, literature, politics, religious texts, and internet culture, the bots generate an endless conversation. Sometimes insightful. Sometimes absurd. Often both at once. Watching it now, I can’t help but connect it to the work I’m doing with Claude. Much of the conversation around AI remains focused on productivity, automation, and content generation. But I’m increasingly interested in AI as a new artistic and cognitive medium—a space for dialogue, interpretation, provocation, and reflection. In that sense, Hello Hi There wasn’t really about chatbots. It was about creating conditions for emergence. AI art history didn’t begin with image generators. It includes theater makers, conceptual artists, cyberneticists, and designers who recognized early that the most interesting thing about these systems wasn’t their intelligence—it was the conversations they make possible. The same question feels alive today: How do we design systems that don’t just produce answers, but create new ways of thinking? 🎭 Annie Dorsen, Hello Hi There (2010) Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PiwEQQNnBk #AIArt #CreativeAI #AlgorithmicTheater #AnnieDorsen #Claude
Saltwater soul, skin of the sea 🦭🌊 A little selkie magic for my Sacramento birthday—caught between land and ocean, just where I belong ✨ Shedding one skin, stepping into another—this next year feels like transformation 💫 Forever pulled by the tide, no matter where I am 🤍 #SelkieEnergy #BirthdayMagic #mermaidstyle #OceanSoul #MythicMood MakeWaves SeaSpirit

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