- Mobile Me(dia) 3
- Social Activism Using Mobile Technology 2
- ! Featured ! 21
- ! Show Me Everything ! 33
- Cabinets Of Wonder! 5
- Computational Media (ICM) 4
- Physical Computing 4
- Applications 1
- Mobile Web 1
- Nature of Code 7
- Data Representation 3
- Big Games 1
- Sensitive Buildings 2
- Thesis 2
- RWET – Reading Writing Electronic Text 3
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Desperate Housewares
A mobile app for sharing photos of free things on the street. A fun and more efficient curb alert system. A missed connections for things. Desperate Housewares exposes the little-known lives of objects teetering on the edge ...
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Hungryfr
Hungryfr helps people who work together take breaks together. Share what you’re hungryfr so your coworkers can join you! Not sure what you want? Join someone else’s trip! Hungryfr is a web, mobile and physical interface that encourages people ...
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Tess Yo Face
Here is a revisiting of the the Voronoi Tesselation Portrait Series I worked with Mark Kleback last year. Recognize those faces? If you are a part of 2013 ITP Community, you might recognize ...
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Nature’s Footprint
Nature’s Footprint from Sheiva Rezvani on Vimeo. Nature’s Footprint is a digital installation that lets you play with leaves in the wind. Imagine looking down at your feet and, suddenly, leaves begin to swirl and ...
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Meta-degenerator
Last week we had an inspiring class discussion about the philosophical implications of computer generated poetry. So I decided to take my audio notes from that discussion and generate some poetry out of it. Here ...
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Cut-Up Prose: Good Fortunes + Novels Never Written
This week I took two RICH source texts and mashed them up to make a beautifully absurd story. My first source is my collection of fortunes from fortune cookies that I’ve been saving for years ...
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Making #DesperateHousewares Real : Wk2-Wk3 Update
Over the weekend, I attended the Science and the City Hackathon at NYU/ITP and was able to make great progress on my thesis: Desperate Housewares. Ahead of the actual hackathon, I refined my project’s description: Desperate Housewares::a ...
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Unconditional Love – Terms of Use Part I
For the last year or two I’ve been collecting all of the Terms of Use agreements that I’ve come across (and agreed to) in my online travels and have been wanting to do something algorithmic ...
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Increasing Image Size for Large-Format Printing
There’s a great trick for upping images for professional large-format printing. Don’t just go to image size and increase the size from your original size to the final size. Do it in smaller increments so ...
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44 Sunsets
For our final project for Sensitive Buildings, Ali Sajjadi, Luis Daniel and I coded together a projection that will automatically cycle through livestreams of sunsets from around the world, so that no matter what time ...
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Wireless Chat & Doorbell
Ali and Zena experience the joy of wireless chat. Sensitive Buildings XBee Chat from Sheiva Rezvani on Vimeo. Luis and I work on making a doorbell work with wireless: Sensitive Buildings – Doorbell Assignment from ...
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Mobile Development Strategies
Genevieve Hoffman & I ran a workshop at ITP Camp today on the pros & cons of different mobile development strategies. Here are some links for more info on the topics we covered: ...
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Cracked ITP Portraits
Working with the very talented Mark Kleback to create some voronoi tessellation portraits of ourselves and some of our peers at ITP. Here is a brief preview: Our process began with playing with the pixel[] array ...
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Immaculate Pregnancy Test (IPT)
On April 12th, 2012, Arizona passed legislation defining pregnancy as starting two weeks before conception. This legislation placing all women in the state in a perpetual state of pregnancy is the inspiration for this ...
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ITP Act I: They Meet
See the video below! Working with Processing to create a [ms] Pacman inspired animation. A brief introduction to the ITP experience, if you will…a love story between ‘Processing’ & ‘Arduino.’ Download the code as an ...
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Cracking
I’m excited to be working with my brilliant colleague Kim Ash on this new Nature of Code project we’re tentatively calling “Cracking.” Our ultimate goal is to create an installation that uses projection mapping on ...
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Coned Perspective
Playing with fractals and perlin noise can be a lot of fun. Especially when it generates mind tricks in perceiving shape and perspective. Are you looking inside or outside the cone? Watch the animation here. ...
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Feathered Fractal
Adding randomness to more randomness creates some beautifully chaotic patterns. I combined a tree-generating fractal to the “montecarlo” randomness generator in a Levy Walk Sketch (both by Dan Shiffman) and got a gorgeous feathered-looking fractal. The ...
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The Web We Weave
In Nature of Code we were asked to consider how coding moving bodies propelled by different forces of attraction might create certain patterns. I discovered with a some tweaks and a pinch of randomness, that ...
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Vanity Sizing : Part I
More explanation and variations to come. Including these two fun articles describing vanity sizing. The first image is a basic bar graph, followed by a calculation of circumference to create overlaying circles to represent waists. All visualized ...
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Fake Winter into Spring 2012 Semester Intro
Let [a normal] Spring Semester [finally!] begin! For the next 12 weeks my life will be dedicated to: Data Representation with Jer Thorpe Nature of Code with Dan Shiffman Mobile Web with Sean Montgomery ...
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Giving Up Control to a Process
Thank you to Chris Kairalla for linking our ICM class to this inspiring clip on examples of generative art!
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Nature’s Footprint Part III & IV – User Tested!
We finally have our sketch up and running in it’s complete glory just in time for the great news: we will be showing this project in the 2011 ITP Winter Show! Amik and I move ...
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Nature’s Footprint Blob Detection & Kinect
Nature’s Footprint is well on it’s way. After getting a grid of leaves to work with opencv blob detection in processing: We then staged a kinect in a hallway at ITP: And we were able ...
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Nature’s Footprint
A digital installation that lets you play with leaves in the wind. Imagine looking down at your feet and, suddenly, leaves begin to swirl and move around you as if you were outside. Nature’s Footprint ...
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ME&USEUM
I want to express quick thank you to my fellow classmates in Applications for participating in my group’s presentation of the “ME&USEUM” in response to Curtis Wong’s talk last week. And I thought I’d take ...
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Visiting the Tenement Museum
Typically the method of documentation I feel most comfortable with is photography and video. The Tenement Museum allows neither (the photograph above is taken from their website) and as a result I am almost at ...
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It Began with Rubber Duckies
In 1995, 7000 rubber duckies fell off a cargo ship into the Pacific Ocean leading oceanographers to a goldmine of data to map the world’s ocean currents. Little did they know what this knowledge would ...
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Frogs Sleep with their Eyes Open
On my recent trip to the American Museum of Natural History I learned quite a few things, about Frogs and about Exhibition Design. These subjects revealed themselves in a remarkable theme across my entire visit. ...
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Talk to Me, But Please Do Not Touch MoMA
A common criticism of MoMA’s new show “Talk to Me: Design and Communication Between People and Objects” is that for an exhibit on interactivity, it is not very interactive. Many of the pieces seem to ...
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I am your Guardian Vito: Introduction to ITP (2011-2012)
This year – this month – is all about second chances! I’m exhausted, but I’ve never been happier in my all my life. I wake up every morning knowing that I have something I ...
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A Man, His Dog, His Glass Lobby Heartbreak
I passed by an all-glass lobby – a fishbowl of a man and dog in the strangest frozen emotional position. I taped it to investigate why…I still don’t know.
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SMS Saves NYU
Not only does NYU have an extremely convoluted and confusing interface for finding class listings, but once you’ve found a class – you can’t actually FIND it in the REAL WORLD. As a Gallatin student ...
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Wikipedia ruled by Benevolent Dictator, fights neo-nazis
Somehow I’ve heard Apple being described as the Benevolent Dictator more than once this week in reference to its lack of openness and control for both consumers and programmers. By complete coincidence I happened to ...
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Penny, the revolutionary
Let’s take a second and actually think about ‘PENNY‘ from Inspector Gadget. She carried around a ‘computer book’ and communicated with her dog ‘Brain’ via video-watch. Her backpack contained whatever she needed to get outta ...
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you, me, and ITP (2010-2011): a Gallatin introduction
What do Gender History, Sustainability and Digital Media Production have to do with one another? Well, I’m a nerd who loves to study stories, collective memory (aka history) and the complex and juicy details that ...