Selected Projects from the DMI Archives

Digital Cartography

digitalcartography_06-thumb.jpg

Andrew Ellis and Alexander Wang collaborated on this project.

Digital Cartography is a short documentary film on the transition of maps into their digital form. In this film we speak with programmer and mapmaker Jeffrey Warren from the MIT Media Lab and Dietmar Offenhuber from SENSEable City Lab at MIT. We explore the cultural, economic and technical aspects of mapmaking and how they affect the way we communicate with one another.  read more »

Interactive Media and the Poetic: An Exploration into the Elements of Interactive Media

wiggins-thumb.jpg

This thesis investigates interactive media's capacity to communicate the poetic. "Poetic" meaning the ability of language to communicate abstract and conceptual messages, as opposed to informational language that focuses on objects and their relationships to physical space.  read more »

Natural Metaphors for Information Visualizations

horn_thumb.jpg

My thesis research investigates how one can use metaphors of natural form and behavior for information to support a better understanding of data systems.  read more »

Garden City

garden_3-thumb.jpg

I was interested in developing a design strategy that would connect gardeners from around the world. The Garden City concept is a channel of communication designed to be used by urban gardeners of all skill levels. It is a platform for gardeners to ask questions and provide answers, or simply share information about past experiences.  read more »

Uninformed Opinions [1] & Other Observations on "New Media" Innovations/Inventors

field_uninformed_01-thumb.jpg

Throughout the lurid and sundry course of human technological history, mankind has continuously and relentlessly sought ways of improving the human condition. Whether it be figuring out how to fashion a round stone to construct a wheelbarrow to make the carrying of, well, things easier or unlocking the power of the atom to achieve cataclysmic energy sources because we can, the human race does not rest.  read more »

Shape Mix

shapemix_01-thumb.jpg

ShapeMix is the project I created as a testbed for several theories of audiovisual exchange. I wanted to create a place where one or more audiovisual objects could live in one space and be manipulated.

At the heart of the project is the notion of a confined space that represents left and right/ pan and up and down volume. each of the shapes (circles in this case) represents a sound. Inversely, each sound represents a shape. The two are synonymous. Each of the circles can be manipulated with sonic and visual effects that give
audiovisual cues.  read more »

A Learner-Centered Approach to Teaching Programming

thumb.jpg

Learning to program is difficult, and of particular challenge to an audience of artists, designers and educators. These learners may have a limited background in mathematics and programming logic and also vastly different motivations from a student majoring in computer science. Yet the pedagogy we use to teach them programming is the same as for everyone.  read more »

Login | The Dynamic Media Institute and Massachusetts College of Art and Design are trademarks and all contents of this site are Copyright 2005 - 2010 unless otherwise noted. Writings and projects are property of their respective authors. Reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited without prior consent.