DMI is pleased to release the catalog for its exhibit: The Language of Dynamic Media: Works from the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art. The exhibition catalog features a wide range of work developed by students between 2000 and 2005 including interactive learning tools, studies in participatory narratives, motion and sound studies, physical interfaces, and multimedia installations. Click here to learn more.
DMI faculty and conference chairpersons Brian Lucid and Joe Quackenbush are pleased to announce plans for the AIGA Design Educator conference Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media. Scheduled for April 4-6, 2008 in Boston, Massaging Media 2 will gather a diverse group of presenters and attendees from around the world for a provocative conversation on how graphic design education is being affected by dynamic media.
The Dynamic Media Institute, graduate design program at the Massachusetts College of Art, invites you to a free lecture by David Small.
David Small, alumnus of MIT's Media Lab, the principal and founder of Small Design Firm, specializes in the design for physical interfaces, architectural space and innovative visualization of information.
Carolin Horn's 2007 thesis project Anymails was recently profiled in an article by Wired News. More information about Carolyn's email visualization system is available on her Anymails website.
Carolin Horn's thesis project Anymails has received the Red Dot award in Communication Design for 2007. Anymails was also recently chosen as a finalist in the Interactive and Web Design category of the seventh annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards.
Crossword :: By Novitska, Karolina
"Crossword" is a cinematic visualization of Alzheimer's disease achieved by exploring various digital and analog manipulations of printed typography. Using a stop-motion technique, I sequenced more than 2,000 still images to create a flowing cinematic experience.
Related: 2005 | DE 635 Motion & Sound | Kubasiewicz, Jan | Novitska, KarolinaProximity Lab :: By Karatzas, Evan
Built on the premise that physical proximity is a basic unit of social communication, this study seeks to examine the role of physical interaction in social communication. The study seeks to stimulate inquiry on this topic through facilitated experiences where algorithmic logic, system observation of user behavior, and dynamic role assignment are central elements made accessible to participants for contemplation and discussion. User perception and response to the overlay of information extrapolated from user actions and system rules is also central to this study.
Related: 2005 | DE 603-604 Thesis Project | Karatzas, Evan | Kubasiewicz, JanJellyfish :: By Horn, Carolin
Jellyfish visualizes an encyclopedia of the arts. The project should be seen as an experiment, which deals with a dynamic interface. The purpose was to remove a static, conventional design and to achieve a playful interface. The application is developed in Processing and uses an HTML-database to update content.
Related: 2005 | DE 601-602 Design Studio | Horn, Carolin | Lucid, BrianAnimation, Motion and Education :: By Griffey, Julia
If our bodies know something our minds do not, can the knowledge in our bodies help out our minds? Helen Gummerseimer thought so. Mrs. Gummerseimer was my second grade teacher who taught us the “pronoun-a-la-go-go” to help us learn our pronouns. It was a simple little dance—a couple of hand gestures and some steps forward and back—that went along with a rhythmic chanting of “I, You, He, She, It, We, You, They.” Thanks to Mrs. Gummerseimer, I will never forget my pronouns.
Related: 2005 | DE 603-604 Thesis Project | Griffey, Julia | Lucid, BrianHydroponica :: By Pillsbury, Christine
The user enters the circular meditation chamber and is directed to sit by the only light illuminating from the screen highlighting the pillow seat before the interface. Before her is a rear projected blue grid of circles behind an empty vase. The only sound is the flow of water beneath the vase beckoning her to use the resting ladle. As the vase is filled, a digital plant flourishes upon the grid. Quickly growing with every pour, slowly dying with every pause. As the digital plant form interacts with its background music plays; beautiful in the rise and fall of the plant’s life cycle.
Related: 2004 | DE 603-604 Thesis Project | Kubasiewicz, Jan | Pillsbury, Christine