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Weather Station is an interactive piece that translates weather data into a physical representation using addressable LEDs. The user can click on a world map, and the current weather in that location will appear within the dome. The weather displayed corresponds to the location's weather category, wind speed, wind direction, and temperature. By Carly Hagen

Interview with Isaac Harrell about his final project for Emerging Technologies Winter Term 2016. The focus of the term is about our changing sense of home in relationship to current cultural trends and new technological imperatives. He is using face tracking software to create abstract portraits of viewers who are invited to play Nintendo NES games. This addresses issues related to "the home" in terms of how early game controllers moved game video games out of arcades and into homes and how this leads to a strange sense of isolated/together.

Interview with Luis Martinez about his final project for Emerging Technologies Winter Term 2016. The focus of the term is about our changing sense of home in relationship to current cultural trends and new technological imperatives. Luis's project is working on a project that seals a window and turns it into a screen for projection. Using two cameras he plans on mixing live video from just outside a house with footage inside where the viewer is. He addresses issues of private and public and internal and external spaces.

Interview with Matthew Wilson about his final project for Emerging Technologies Winter Term 2016. The focus of the term is about our changing sense of home in relationship to current cultural trends and new technological imperatives. Matthew is shooting 360 degree video which will end up being used in a new type of household object, one that he intends to be almost like a crystal ball that displays memories and connects the home to other spaces and other landscapes.

Interview with Crystal Imah about her final project for Emerging Technologies Winter Term 2016. The focus of the term is about our changing sense of home in relationship to current cultural trends and new technological imperatives. Crystal's project uses a EEG headset to create for the participant an experience of trying to find a sense of home from within themselves.

Interview with Zachary Boyt about his final project for Emerging Technologies Winter Term 2016. The focus of the term is about our changing sense of home in relationship to current cultural trends and new technological imperatives. Zachary is building a sonic multi-touch table — thinking about the table as a center of a space that is sonic rather than as the center piece of a dinning or sitting room space.

Interview with Maxwell Turpin about his final project for Emerging Technologies Winter Term 2016. The focus of the term is about our changing sense of home in relationship to current cultural trends and new technological imperatives. Maxwell's virtuality project creates a space in which a single user of the VR headset is witnessed by the rest of the audience. A version of what the user is seeing is projected around them for the audience to see, but there is a difference between the two version of the same house hold space —a difference that speaks to the different subjectivities between guest and being intimately connected to a space.

Interview with Renee Taylor about her final project for Emerging Technologies Winter Term 2016. The focus of the term is about our changing sense of home in relationship to current cultural trends and new technological imperatives. Her project "Household Relic" addresses the fast changing type of use and cultural framework of the telephone —moving from landline to cell phone.

Interview with Cara Murray about her final project for Emerging Technologies Winter Term 2016. The focus of the term is about our changing sense of home in relationship to current cultural trends and new technological imperatives. Her project "re-call" addresses notions of home as seen through the comparison her own subjective memory of the architecture of her childhood home with a scale model of the actual home.

Interview with Carly Hagen about her final project for Emerging Technologies Winter Term 2016. The focus of the term is about our changing sense of home in relationship to current cultural trends and new technological imperatives. Her project address the reality that people are known to use weather apps not just for their own forecast but to feel connected to loved ones living else where or even to imagine living else where themselves. Here we see a prototype of her table-top light/lamp/visualizer.

Interview with Natalya Kolosowsky about her final project for Emerging Technologies Winter Term 2016. The focus of the term is about our changing sense of home in relationship to current cultural trends and new technological imperatives. Her project addresses the body and the locus of a sense of home in relationship to larger trends of migration, displacement and homelessness.

Interview with Nathan Asman about his final project for Emerging Technologies Winter Term 2016. The focus of the term is about our changing sense of home in relationship to current cultural trends and new technological imperatives.

split screen of BFA Rude Brood student Keith Stedman. Keith used a EGG set up to make architectural type drawings in Processing. In the installation you saw him on a monitor hanging from the ceiling looking towards the drawing. The video of him was taken while he was actually doing each drawing.

Nice use of glass to make the images of human faces seem...well...a little more human. By Sara Roberts

The envelope-pushing graphic designer behind The Happy Show at Toronto’s Design Exchange.

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Home No Home

The final of our small groups created an installation where the sense and memory of home follows personal objects that people carry with them rather than situate home as a stable certain place. When each object is handled in the space its history is revealed in projections that surround the viewer. From being isolated at home playing video games or tracing a child through refugee camps each story tells a version of home. Over time the narratives blend and overlay creating a palimpsest which give the viewer a sense that there is perhaps more flux than continuity in contriving a notion of home.

Small Group Project 2 — Remapped Home The second group used surround sound, the game engine Unity and a VR headset (oculus rift) to remap the idea of home. Sitting on a stool the viewer is transported to a downtown Eugene alley. The alley is has a center space that is covered and is a place where Eugene’s homeless sometime go to get out of the rain. Interesting enough the pedestrians on the street appear to give the viewer passing suspicious glances. While their looks might reflect the mix of interest and concerns about the video recording activity going on, it nicely mimics the looks we might be getting if we were homeless people in the alley trying to get out of the rain.

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