2004

Selected Work from the DMI Archive:

Communication :: By Nazemi, Kate

A prototype for an installation titled Communication aims to talk about the gap between internal and external language by engaging you in interactions where you can wade through language by pulling out the contents found in a series of...

Blurry :: By Spiridakis, Stephen

This film is from a class entitled "Design as Experience" and for this project I was given a piece of instrumental music and then I was asked to create a visual narrative to accompany it. For my piece I...

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Memento :: By Davis, Peter

This project is an attempt at creating an interactive narrative. As someone deeply interested in cinema, the idea of creating such a narrative was, at first, not particularly appealing to me. I had two concerns: The first was that...

911 :: By Davis, Peter

September 11, 2001 has been described as a day that many of us will never forget. But it seems that we have forgotten. Our lives have resumed their routines; our society has become baser and more superficial than it...

Poetry of Enigma :: By Novitska, Karolina

The first project for Major Studio examined the topic of Location, particularly as it relates to new media. Throughout the course of the project, my concept evolved from being a task-oriented gaming experience in a context of a labyrinth...

Emotional Book :: By Novitska, Karolina

The assignment for this project was to create a concept/prototype for a "New Book" using various elements of new media. My analysis began with the exploration of concepts for a book, which would not be possible in a traditional...

Progress Through Process :: By Nazemi, Kate

In a piece titled Progress through Process, I am working to replace the mouse with a series of cranks that serve as an input device demanding greater work from participants to find meaning in a virtual painting. This piece...

Related: 2004 | Nazemi, Kate

Between :: By Nazemi, Kate

Between explores how the visual and verbal languages work to define something and asks if it is possible to deconstruct a word to the point of abstraction to then visually interact with it in order to come to an...

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New Book :: By Mori, Keiko

Our writing activity has now shifted from paper to a computer screen due to the flexibility in editing the technology offers to us, such as cut and paste and duplication of the same file. This man-computer cooperation works really...

Time Manipulation :: By Mori, Keiko

While working on the location project, I became interested in the concept, "manipulation of time." There are some ways you can manipulate time such as stretching, reducing, and pausing. How would these kinds of time-manipulation change space or your...

The Great Escape, An Animated Short :: By Griffey, Julia

Animation 2 is a course in which students learn a variety of traditional animation techniques. My final project was a short narrative based on the escape of the gorilla, Little Joe, from the Franklin Park Zoo. The entire film...

Related: 2004 | Griffey, Julia

Interactive Mat / Memory Game :: By Griffey, Julia

The interactive memory game was inspired by the phenomenon of DDR I witnessed when making the documentary in the summer of 2003. I wanted to try to make a game that would get players to use their entire body...

What A Game? A DDR Documentary :: By Griffey, Julia

"Dance, Dance, Revolution," (DDR), an arcade game made by the Japanese company Kaomi, is the one of the most successful of the physical game genre. While the American version of DDR has only been in existence since 2001, it...

Sambadrome :: By Karatzas, Evan

The assignment was to select a piece of music, analyze the various structures that exist in the existing sound, and develop a visualization based on that existing structure. I chose a short Brazilian piece of music with a relentless,...

Love Looks Away :: By Karatzas, Evan

The assignment is appropriately titled "story first." Students were asked to begin by writing a short story and then translate that story into a screenplay with attention given to scripting shots, sequence and timing of the discourse line, which...

Market Garden :: By Pillsbury, Christine

I've been spending so much of my time here at MassArt experimenting with "Interactive Narrative" -- trying to find useful ways to essentially treat the qualitative as quantitative. Dissecting the aspects of story and trying to create "systems" that...

911: Hyper-Cinema Interactive Documentary :: By Pillsbury, Christine

We live in a time where the barrage of visual, and sometimes other sensory, media has a direct effect on our human ability to connect with a given subject matter. Whether or not this has a positive or negative...

Locality of Time :: By Lunetta, Carlos

Location of time is a conceptual project that explores the idea of time spatiality; how do we conceive spatial qualities to time and how these qualities express themselves through geometry. The project approaches time as being a cyclic...

NewLibrary :: By Lunetta, Carlos

NewLibrary is a proposal for an interactive system that contains all books ever written, with full content. The challenges were to maintain the book physicality, and to develop a system where all possible information could be accessed easily only...

Ms Mildgreen :: By Lunetta, Carlos

Ms. Mildgreen is a multi-sensory multimedia installation. It tells a tale of love between a color and a sound; the project was born from a simple soundtrack, and evolved to a photograph show, a multimedia performance....

Hydroponica :: 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...

Kod Book Interactive :: By Nazemi, Kate

Digital code is the requisite material used by scientists to process information and produce results, and now by artists who use it as a creative tool. Here, we find a link between two seemingly disparate disciplines. But the connection...

9 notes :: By Bessen, Lauren

9 Notes is an experimental interface that examines and extends the concept of a visual metaphor as interface. Nine cool-hued pictures, attached by thumbtacks, cover a wall while a scattering of objects lines a narrow shelf. Drawing influence from...

Memory :: By Mori, Keiko

The objective of this project was to overcome the problems with communicating via images: Images can hardly convey abstract thoughts and easily have hundreds and thousands of meanings. In this project, the technique of montage was used to challenge...

Eureka! A Love Story :: By Griffey, Julia

This project was created to fulfill the requirement of an assignment given in Professor Kubasiewicz's Dynamic Typography course. The instructions for this assignment were simply to create a short narrative film. Students could choose between two themes: ñEureka!î or...