Collaborating with Hunter Crawford and eight other research fellows in the Mobile Tech Research Initiative, we designed and constructed Dick Hannah Customer Care from the ground up over a period of twelve weeks. The app features the creation of a profile which allows the user to to enter their vehicle information, store it, and push their data to Dick Hannah's auto service centers to make appointments with ease.
This generative net project was made similarly to a previous piece with a similar format, Forgotten Depths. It is inspired by the theme Momento Mori, a recent loss that I had trouble removing myself from and so I instead hoped it would fuel creativity. I wanted to incorporate images that were abstract and layered upon each other to form a complex moving image that would not be overbearing. The audio is a mixture of many songs that were sampled from genres that don't necessarily blend together to create a maelstrom of varying emotions. As the images progress it changes from the faster dark night into indistinct ghostly shapes being transformed into cybernetic animals.
Translating Interfaces takes the screen version of The Creative Media & Digital Culture (CMDC) Program website and reinterprets it for mobile phones. The design of the mobile version mirrors the screen version but allows for unique opportunities that are only available on a mobile device. This website is the product of a great deal of research, including the screen sizes of popular mobile devices, differences in coding from desktop to mobile and what affordances are specific to mobile devices (i.e. geolocation, remote interface, portable internet radio, maps, etc.). This work was created in collaboration with Hunter Crawford.
As a study of generative art, Forgotten Depths takes shapes inspired from the depths of the Thaig in Dragon Age and places it within a moving collage. Samples of music were mixed together in order to emulate the mood of these eerie depths.
A set of three colleges in a theme inspired by dreams and trans-human reality including a struggle for perfection contrasted with inhuman absurdity. The progression of humanity changes over the course of the pieces into further technologies.