Media Arts and Technology

1. Electroencephalograms http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110218083711.htm Electroencephalograms (EEGs) are commercially available sensors that measure brain waves. Computer scientists from the AutoNOMOS innovation labs of Freie Universitat Berlin have used EEGs to develop a car steered ...

1. Intuitive Ocusonics: Eye Tracking Musical Instrument Interfaces (http://www.andreapolli.com/avision.html) Screen shot 2012-02-27 at 11.33.23 PM.png This project produces soundwaves generated by the sun which are manipulated by movements of the performer's eye. The composition contains both low hu...

In "What is an Image?," Harold Cohen draws his attention to the visual and cognitive origin of all drawn images. He displays his understanding of how an image is made through introducing and detailing his creation, AARON, a computer knowledge-based program that produces "freehand" drawings. AARON is...

RosanaLiang_Classification.jpg Attributes: 1. The first, and probably most obvious, classification attribute is multiple exposure. Each photograph makes use of some form of superimposition of two or more individual exposures, done either digitally or manually. 2. The second attribute has to do with...

fedex-advertisement.jpg This FedEx advertisement displays one pair of hands (top) letting go of an object that the second pair of hands (bottom) is reaching for through a clearly labeled FedEx Express cardboard box. In his article, "Rhetoric of the Image," Barthes highlights three messages that are...

In the article, Stephen Mamber claims Marey's vision of movement is a fully developed media theory rather than merely a primitive pre-cinema idea. According to Mamber, Marey's chronographs and ideas of movement are larger than most others give him credit for because they deal with how to represent c...

As a predecessor of the photographic camera, the camera obscura consists of a dark chamber and a tiny hole to project an inverted image of the outside scene. This technique was, at first, utilized for viewing eclipses of the Sun without damaging the eyes--a principle introduced by Aristotle, but soo...