Amanda Bernsohn: @ITP | Images | Statement | CV | Projects

 



I rarely update this page, though it is always the central navigation to classes I am currently enrolled in (navigate from tabs above). The currently tabbed items are courses for which I am enrolled for Fall '08 - they will not begin until September. Below please find a list of all completed courses thus far:

Fall 2007
Applications of Interactive Technology
Communications Lab
Introduction to Computational Media
Physical Computing

Spring 2008
Methods of Motion
Developing Assistive Technology
Sousveillance Culture
Digital Imaging: Reset

Summer 2008
Sociable Objects

Fall projects
The Versifier A writer's block assistance tool. Word inspiration through an analog interface.. twist knobs to dynamically create lines of poetry from other people's words.
GotRhythm? Rhythm training striker pads
The Pinhole Painter Camera A digital pinhole camera by Amanda Bernsohn, Eduardo Lytton and Christian Cerrito
Time lapse and stop-motion video.

Spring Projects
Artist study - paper and presentation on the work of artist and experimental geographer Trevor Paglen.
Stages of Surveillance: Products of Paranoia and Performance Amanda Bernsohn and Kacie Kinzer. Video piece and flash based interactive map of surveillance experience in Manhattan. Presented at the Sousveillance Culture Conference at The Change You Want to See, NYC.
Motion tracking software for encouraging children with various physical disabilities to hold their heads upright. Forehead height controls pause and playback of cartoons.
EZ Leg Bag Emptier - Amanda Bernsohn and Shalini D'Souza. System designed to help individuals who use catheters with leg-bags to empty bag independently rather than depend on outside help for toilet use. Project Ongoing.
ITP in Panama - traveled to Panama with a select group of 11 students to conduct a listening tour of Panama City and the Azuero Peninsula. Gathered media to study sustainability, agriculture and species preservation in the region. Was part of a team that conducted dozens of interviews over ten days with politicians, scientists, agriculturalists, sustainable builders, architects, surfers, real estate developers, landscape architects and more. Shot over 2000 photographs during the trip.

Coordinated and curated the Digital Imaging: Reset and ITP in Panama screens for the ITP Spring Show

Summer Projects
Chim-era Wireless Windchimes Amanda Bernsohn and Vikram Tank Windchimes for the apartment dweller. Silent outside, with sound transmitted wirelessly to home computer/speaker set up. Allows for volume control of sounds. Two version: hanging chimes for fire escape or terrace and standing chimes for placement on a windowsill.

posted by Amanda @ 5:42 PM, ,


MAPTCHA
In the wild
Telos
Mimesis
Diegesis
In the wild

posted by Amanda @ 6:31 PM, ,


panoptical living
muybridge
dancing

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Fall semester went without much general ITP blogging - I just updated pages for Spring semester classes (linked above).

Fall semester class links, though, are still available:
ICM
Phys Comp
Applications
Comm Lab

I've had two of my classes so far and am looking forward to seeing how things shake out with the wait lists, etc... Tomorrow is the kick-off of the DriveBy and TNO season with an introduction to QuickSilver and Solas.

posted by Amanda @ 8:34 PM, ,


Into midterms this week and next. So far my time at ITP has been overwhelming and rich. Don't have a lot of time to blog about it, or do anything else really, but it's been wonderful. The learning curve is about the steepest i've experienced. There are things i can do with some fluency now that i had never even heard of a month ago. Of course the biggest problem so fat is that I need another 12 hours in each day. This Friday alone there are three quest speakers.

Back to finding interesting XML feeds for my ICM program. I'm almost starting to understand object orientation.

posted by Amanda @ 6:56 PM, ,


Amazing assistive tech video from assistive ware.

posted by Amanda @ 11:54 PM, ,


I have spent a lot of time trying to organize my data and organize myself, just in general. The first week of school was especially busy because I had my [final] presentation for Applications of Interactive Telecommunications - and needed to present it at the second class meeting. With that completed..I have a little more time to focus myself and try to get into the swing of being back in school after quite a long time. Trying to spend this week finding a balance between school and work, family and friends, money and no money, working on the floor and working at home... issues like that. I'm so intensely curious about what everyone else is working on, that i can spend hours looking at ITP student and teacher sites.

posted by Amanda @ 9:04 PM, ,