What you're about to watch is an edited version

of a live stream that I did almost a month ago.

This was actually the sixth time that I've done that.

It was the end-of-semester ITP and IMA Spring Show 2019.

I teach here at a program called ITP

that's a two-year master's program,

and also IMA, our Interactive Media Arts,

that's an undergraduate major

at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

At the end of every semester

all the students get together and do a show,

two nights only, of their work.

So, I wandered around with a camera,

and a bunch of people helping me,

and it was lots of fun,

and had a microphone, and looked at various projects.

You can watch the full live stream.

It's a little over two hours,

if you wanna check this video's description,

or enjoy this highlight reel.

Happy summer!

Have a wonderful summer!

See you in some future coding training videos.

(train whistle blows)

(happy easy-going music)

- Can we see the dinosaur project?

Can the dinosaur explain the dinosaur project?

- I'm Emily.

- I'm Maya Pruitt.

Dylan the Dino.

- Dylan the Dino.

- And we have another group-mate, Mingna.

- Yes.

- For this piece, we partnered with Dr. Michael Rampino,

who's a geologist, and also a researcher, at NYU.

He specifically studies mass extinction.

So we made an AR app

where people are invited to become a geologist

by scanning the rock layers for evidence of mass extinction

and more information about earth's history.

- This is your tool.

And if you find an object, you can scan it,

and an AR component will appear.

This one's one of our favorites.

We call him Ancestor Shrew,

because he is the ancestor of all placental mammals.

- I'm Chenhe, and this is Yves.

- I'm Yves.

- And this is our project.

We did this.

We called it White Mountain, Black Water.

This is simply, you drop down the water,

and make a song.

- [Teacher] That is the most magical thing ever.

What is the substance that you're dripping?

- [Chenhe] That's water.

Ink water.

- [Teacher] Ink water.

- [Chenhe] Just ink and water, yeah.

- This is an acrylic sheet, and then we painted it

with water-resistant spray,

so that's why the water is behaving like that.

- [Teacher] How do you do the sensing?

- That's the camera.

- [Teacher] The camera!

- [Chenhe] Yeah.

- My name is Yiyao,

and this is my physics project called Life in a Nutshell.

There is two parts.

The first part is a series of sculptures.

They have 13 from birth to death as a cycle.

The second part is an interactive installation.

People can interact with it,

and they need to make a pose

exactly like what the sculpture shows,

and then they will become part of the character

to experience different stages of life.

(peaceful electronic music)

- I'm Bora Aydingtug.

This is Feedback Mirror.

Made in processing.

It's using the letter I to visualize the camera image.

It's also measuring the overall image

to create some sort of feedback.

There are two different angles.

One is the angle that's mapped

to the brightness of the camera image.

The other one is the brightness data of the overall image.

So, if the elements started touching each other,

they start doing these recursive patterns.

- It's called I Can't Breathe.

It's a homage piece to Eric Gardner's last words

in the documentation of how he died.

It's a data visualization piece

of black deaths at the hand of police brutality.

Essentially what happens is this screen goes through

the days of a calendar year,

and on a day where there were no documented deaths

of black lives, the lungs breath gently.

On a day where, as we're witnessing right now,

somebody lost their life--

A person of color lost their life to the hand of an officer.

The calendar pauses.

The lungs completely deflate, and shrivel, and crunch.

Then very, very slowly reinflate

before the calendar moves to the next day.

That continues over the course of,

in this iteration, one month,

accounting for 27 deaths.

But, I actually have a data set

that accounts for every day between now,

moving backwards to January 2013,

which is accumulative of 1,742 deaths,

80% of which have had no judicial investigation,

and 73% which were unarmed.

My next iteration will hopefully

account for that entire data set.

It takes two hours just to witness January 2018 alone.

That's what I have today.

- Hi!

My name is Jim Schmitz,

and this is my project, it's my thesis project at ITP.

My thesis is about applying a style transfer

to 360 imagery.

A style transfer is a computational technique

where you can reimagine a photograph

in the style of a painting.

Using images from Google Street View,

I am able to create art that forms a connection--

That inspires a viewer to connect with the actual locations.

The neat thing about this is that

the style is even and continuous.

There are no seams.

Which is different from the way

that other style transfers end up

when they're applied to 360 imagery.

(happy jazzy music)

- My name is Stefan.

Stefan Skripak.

- So what you're looking at is a USB device

that is connected--

That reacts to your browser usage, your internet usage.

If you visit a bandwidth-heavy website,

it will switch from what it's in now,

which is cooling mode,

which is actually cooling the inside to heating.

When you--

What's in here is actually an iceberg shaped ice cube.

So, when you switch to heating mode,

it dramatically increases the speed

at which the iceberg melts.

Once enough of it has melted,

it will actually trigger a simulated short circuit,

which leads to all the monitors shutting off,

and prevents you from using the device any further.

- Hi!

My name is Yang and I'm a second-year student.

I'm graduating, and this is my thesis project.

It's called Magical Pencil.

The idea is, whatever you draw in this game becomes real.

You don't need to find an item when you need it.

Whenever you need something, you just draw it.

You can use it solve puzzles on your journey.

Let's see like, you can drive a van.

Yeah, let's drive.

So, keep going.

- [Person Off-Screen] Yeah!

- [Yang] Yeah!

- My name's Lauren Race.

I'm a designer and I used participatory design

with five low-vision and blind designers and makers

to convert all the material

that's used to teach physical computing at ITP

to tactile.

These are the original symbols from the p-comp site.

I printed them out,

and I ran them through what's called a Swell-Form machine,

which reacts to carbon and black ink,

causing it to puff up.

This is the 11th iteration of each symbol

using participatory design.

What happened after that was

it became like a funnel.

So, if somebody needed a schematic that was tactile,

they'd come to me.

And I realized I was the only one making them,

so what I did was I created a style guide with templates

so teachers and students and designers

can come in and use the templates

to make their own tactile schematic.

- My name is Tinayi,

and this is a project for a team of three.

Helen and Chunhan, they're also in this project.

We're making a music box for our children

specifically age from four to six.

We just want to deliver a very playful experience

to encourage them to be more interested with music-making,

and also maybe become DJ or composer when they're young.

(flute-like music)

- My name is Ada.

This project is called Sonic Cubes.

This is an instrument--

A set of instruments I made for a final performance

I did for this class sound and space

using a 17 speaker setup.

(electronic music changing with block configuration)

(calm jazzy music)

- My name is Kemi.

Adekemi Sijuwade.

I have a multi-modal thumb piano

that you can play in the browser live several ways.

Uses facial recognition to allow you to play.

The other way of playing is with a touch screen.

- My name is Billy Bennett

and I have a p5 sketch with some particles

which you may recognize from the Nature of Code series.

(people laughing)

But, yeah, I rigged up this musical wand

to play music as you swing it across,

of Hailu Mergia, who's an Ethiopian jazz artist.

He has this kind of rolling right hand style

in his music that I try to mimic with this wand,

so you don't skip any notes.

- I'm Ella!

Nice to meet you guys.

I'm graduating this year, and this is my thesis project,

which is called Breath We Live.

This is a breathing meditation for one to two person,

in a very dark and immersive studio.

The purpose of this is to allow people to

practice their breathing meditation

and how this breathing as a primary note

is linked to nature and environment.

That we always notice that our breathings

were part of the nature.

But we don't see it right away.

So, I wanna use breathing as a part of a way to

allow people to understand

their breathing meditation activity,

and also understand that these small changes of breathings

affecting the environment in a more impactful way.

- I'm Casey Conchinha, and this is p5.js Shaders.

I worked on it with my partner Louise Lessel.

It's essentially a collection of examples

of shaders in p5 that are basically--

And a guide to basically show people what they can do

with shaders in p5.

Why they'd wanna use the shaders in p5

versus your load pixels function.

I have them all running in my browser,

and it's not slowing down at all.

They're very performative,

which is one of the main reasons why you'd wanna use them.

- My name is Anna.

I'm a first-year.

My project is Apron Video Controller.

'Cause when I'm cooking,

I'm usually watching a YouTube video,

but I don't wanna touch my iPad with my greasy hand,

so if I'm wearing this apron, I don't need to touch it.

I can control video with this apron.

Playing the video.

And then pause, play, whatever I want.