By Andrew Ellis
Students at the Dynamic Media Institute
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
This project explores the urban landscape through algorithmic walking and photography. Each participant (over thirty people) was asked to walk the following directions from any starting point in their city: 1) walk west 2) take your first right 3) take your first left 4) take your first right 5) stop. These were the only restrictions. A participant was…
By Andrew Ellis
Students at the Dynamic Media Institute
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Chinatown is a site-specific interactive narrative in Chinatown, Boston. The project uses QR codes to 'tag' stories told through videos that a participant can access using a camera on their phone to scan the individual codes. After a participant watches the video, they are prompted to record a video, sound or take photographs and create their own QR codes…
By Alison Kotin
Students at the Dynamic Media Institute
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
The Design Studio I assignment asked first-year students to explore place, space, and time through the language of mapping and information architecture. My final work for “You Are Here” is a playful interface for users that combines the visual language and rules of play of Tetris with a collage of sounds gathered from my daily commute.
The goal of the…
By Alison Kotin
Students at the Dynamic Media Institute
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
As a 2–week project, Design As Experience students were asked to create a cumulative “visual response” to a length of rope. This was an opportunity for me to overcome my initial reaction against an unpleasant material and to explore the impact of documentation of the relics of a performance.
Halfway through the semester, Design As Experience students…
By Alison Kotin
Students at the Dynamic Media Institute
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
In response to a research assignment asking us to speculate on the future of a non-digital technology as it transitions to a media platform, I chose to examine the impact of documentation on performance artists’ approach to creating new work, and the role that digital documentation plays in shaping our experience of live performance.
Please visit http://www.dynamicmediainstitute.org/projects/documentation-live-performance-and-variable-media-artworks…
By Alison Kotin
Students at the Dynamic Media Institute
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
In response to a research assignment asking us to speculate on the future of a non-digital technology as it transitions to a media platform, I chose to examine the impact of documentation on performance artists’ approach to creating new work, and the role that digital documentation plays in shaping our experience of live performance.
Please visit http://www.dynamicmediainstitute.org/projects/documentation-live-performance-and-variable-media-artworks…
By Alison Kotin
Students at the Dynamic Media Institute
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
In response to an assignment asking students to create an interactive interface to the movie Memento, I chose to experiment with the effect of discarding a linear timeline in favor of creating stories based on user interest and goals.
Please visit http://www.dynamicmediainstitute.org/projects/memento for detail project information.
The Dynamic Media Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design offers a creative and intellectually stimulating environment wherein graduate students focus on the role and possible new uses of dynamic media in communication design.
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