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@fgportfolio
I've been fed photography intravenously. At times I resent taking pictures because it can be overtly consummating, but I always come back for more.
Please visit my flickr feed. All critique welcome.
I am naturally averse to over sharing and would tend to keep my work offline, but I have tasted the beauty of receiving feedback from the world, and started to publicly share a few frames .
Playground 2.0
/The Playground that Plays Back/
Playground 2.0 is the playground of the future. While similar in design to the traditional children’s playground model, it is also a space for interactive, multimedia exploration.
An attempt to bridge the gap between videogames and the outdoors while truly leveraging the best of both worlds. Via touch-screen tablets, augmented reality, and other technologies, this unique platform promotes collaborative play, fosters digital literacy development, and accommodates a variety of learners.
Playground 2.0 is a new kind of media platform, and would be more than open to 3rd party developers. Even though the Playground 2.0 has not been physically built, we designed an example literacy-enhancing game "Rainforest Ruins" to hint at its possibilities. (In a fashion similar to Ada Byron programming Babbage's Analytical Engine despite it lacking of physical form).
Even though we decided not to pursue the project in the moment, I feel the idea is fruitful and may get realized in the future. It could be an interesting museum exhibit or a showcase opportunity for a technological company. With the rapid rise of tablets as jacks-of-all-trades-intrinsically-connected-devices, even the cost of building Playground 2.0 would be relatively low. (How does GooglePlay-Ground sound to you?)
On this project I served as a designer, UX analyst, grant writer and a background researcher.
Team mates: Matt Akers, Andrea Bush, Whitney Gruenloh
Lasercut Letterpress
/digital fabrication with the metal and grease/
My lasercut letterpress project has its own dedicated website. http://laserletterpress.tumblr.com
You can read the analytical paper outlining the realities, and pedagogical aspirations of the project with special references to constructionism, remix culture and DIY movement. The paper was also my first InDesign set document. I can thus freely declare that I learned to set lead type by hand before I learned to set digital type.
I made the video to succinctly convey the inspiration for laser cutting custom plates. The process displayed was a very early, nay first, attempt at laser cutting custom print plates. It should not serve as a guide for best practices, but rather an inspiration!
Letterpress Shop featured: Bow and Arrow Press in Cambridge, Massachussets, USA. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/bowarrow/Press/Home.html
ABC Chomper EdApp
/Emergent Literacy Android app/
I spent a good chunk of my time in Spring 2013 designing and piloting an android app-game to teach early literacy (emergent literacy) to children: ABC Chomper.
The app teaches children that sounds connect to letters. In other words, we are focusing on the Alphabetic Principle or the idea that the different sounds of a language are represented by letters.
ABC Chomper is being developed as a part of a larger Early Literacy App Development initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
I was very fortunate to work with Dr. Marianne Wolf, Stephanie Gottwald, and Dr. Robin Morris as our content advisers, and Dr. Cynthia Breazeal as our supervisor. My partners were David Nunez, Madeline Pennebaker, and Junjie Liu.
I don't feel entitled to provide more information on this website as the game being currently negotiated for development.
The Unfinished Calendar for All the Years to Come
/a pataphysical audiobook/
I've always loved speech as a genre. You know, radio plays, audio books, and the like. I always found the sound of human voice revealing in a special way. There was a time when I was carrying around a recorder with a microphone instead of camera. I also used to recite when I was a teenager.
In 2009, I made this audiobook for my sister Kristyna., and now I feel other people may enjoy it too. It's a collection of five short stories from Eberhardt Hauptbahnhof's Unfinished Calendar for This Year as well as for all the Years to Come. The Unfinished Calendar is an absolutely hilarious work from a foremost Czech pataphysicist!
Oh, the audiobook is in CZECH. Bear in mind it is a pataphysical Czech, and so it may sound rather affected to an untrained ear.
2009, Filip Goc. All Rights Reserved, for now.
Potrestany trapic Marycka nevdecnice aneb Zkaza chuligancina Jost v raselinisti aneb Hruzy prazdnin Zlovolny Jirka aned Ztrestany nenasyta Bezelstny Ebertik aneb zachranena ctnost Banda divych Altmannu anebo Konec vse polepsi
Visualizing Shahnameh Killings
/Spoiler alert: Rustam is the dude/
Here I attempted to analyze and visualize the bloody aspects of Shahnameh: the Book of Kings, which is about a 100 years old Persian epic poem. The dataset of choice were all illustrations to the epic available through the Princeton Shahnama Project.
I went through all the illustrations, created a tagged database with vocabulary specific to violent acts, and created a myriad of visualizations from tree maps to network graphs. I even committed the crime of pie charts.
A bonus piece remains the 29 megapixel graph of all pictorial Shahnameh killers and their victims. http://zoom.it/n1Nk
It is also worth mentioning that the Visualizing Shahnameh Killings site was the first web I ever coded from scratch and will always have a place in my heart. Notepad and ftp were the only weapons. I don’t feel the urge to do it again, but it was an enlightening experience.
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John Collins Tribute Video
Recently in May 2013, I was commissioned to edit a tribute video for the retirement party of John Collins, the director of HGSE Special Studies and a first class librarian. It turned out great in the end - John told me it was seeing the video that made him emotional that day.
Kindly reposted from Harvard Graduate School of Education youtube channel.
The editing was unfortunately more time consuming than anticipated. I could not shoot the interviews myself, and the quality off the raw footage submitted to me was far from ideal. I could not adjust the framing since it was not HD, and could not use other than white background because of some multicolored aberrations. I wished they at least used an external mic.
The good thing is I finally got around testing the various dither filters in premiere pro and the techniques for multiple chroma key masks.
I designed this poster for the 2013 Brain Awareness Week at HGSE.
My soft spot for typographic fists comes through again.
Temporal Aspect of Annotating
/visualizing reading paths/
Marginalia have served as instantiations of a rich reader engagement with a text for centuries. This project takes advantage of the fact that digital annotations unlike analog annotations include metadata about both the reader and the reading conditions. We take timestamps of annotation events as proxies of users' reading path. It is an attempt to visualize the „act of reading“ (Wolfgang Iser: The Implied Reader, 1974), and analyze the reading patterns across genres and with reference to readers.
We brainstormed this project with dr. Kurt Fendt, a digital humanities scholar from MIT's HyperStudio. I then interned with Hyperstudio to instantiate the idea and attempt integrating the tool into the Annotation Studio collaborative reading environment. The project is still running.
I developed a pilot proof-of-concept visualization, and was fortunate enough to present the preliminary outcomes at the wonderful Annotations @Harvard conference. You can download the pilot as a Linux, Mac, or PC script, or get the Processing source code. It is a visualization of a single document about the scientific theories on yawning annotated by various users. The annotation data were scraped from AnnotationStudio and anonymized.
I also worked on javascript based D3.js production version of the tool for deployment on the Annotation Studio site. There is a short design rationale available, but the application is still under development.
Skimmatics
/The craft, science, and art of skimming/
Skimmatic is a digital reading environment designed from the cognitive ground up to facilitate deep and comprehensive reading of academic writing. Inspired by the “The Harvard Course in Reading and Study Strategies,” we wanted to design an application that would help users develop appropriate digital reading skills in an implicit fashion. We identified three major areas of reading skills to be fostered by our product: skimming, annotating, and reviewing.
The projects was above all an exquisite lesson in Design Thinking process. The final design reflects three iterations based on used and expect feedback.
Downloads and more:
Feel more than free to play with the interactive wireframe I built with Illustrator and PowerPoint. The clickable elements on each page are highlighted with light blue boxes. Alternatively check out the static pdf version.
I wrote a comprehensive story of Skimmatic and its consideration as a business opportunity applying the frameworks from Harvard Business School's Online Economy course (http://www.onlineeconomy.org/). Written in a style of a case study, and thus can be quite entertaining.
For the over-achievers, a very early testing app we wrote to collect data on the effectiveness of the skimsheet skimming aide can be still seen here http://skimmatic.herokuapp.com/ (as of 7/2013; It will probably disappear eventually as it has outlived its usefulness)
Thanks to dr.David Docterman for guidance on the design process, and dr. Abigail Lipson from Bureau of Study Counsel for reading strategies consulting.
On this project I was the UI and UX designer, and a business analyst.
Team mate: Frank Kotsianas
Pigs In a Blanket
I shot and edited this video to document the creation of Pigs in a Blanket game for the Design Across Scale course at MIT in Spring 2013. It's just a short rough piece to entertain the class. The game was conceived and materialized by me, Natthida Wiwatwicha and Emerald Ferreira-Yang.
It was an interesting exercise in casting. We 3D printed and milled several models of pigs, which we then casted in rubber and expandable foam.
To my surprise, professor Neri Oxman appreciated the "skandinavian aesthetic" of the piece. It must be the beard.
Statertainment (effectively Intro To Stats Propaganda)
I shot this short (requirement was 4-5 minutes) as a final statertainment* for "S-40 Intoduction to Applied Data Analysis" in the Fall 2012 at HGSE. * the term statertainment was coined by K. Masyn to referto any kind of at least somewhat amusing and quiry/ nerdy piece of art/ craft/ creation that involves statistics.
Starring: our classmates from S-40 (survivors), random people in the streets of Cambridge around Harvard, random people in the streets of Prague, etc. Conception etc. by Austin Volz and Filip Goč. Shot, edited, etc. by Filip Goč. Songs featured in the video in the order of appearance: Kicky Koo Kicky Koo (You For Me, Me For You) by Eddie Elkin's Orchestra licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License. Stormy Blues by Arne Bang Huseby licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The Entertainer (1902, piano roll) by Scott Joplin licensed under a Public Domain Mark 1.0 License.
Not a Lone Wolf
This little video turned out quite well considering the low light conditions. I shot this at Galerie Pokorná (Šafaříkova 3) in Prague in December 2012. The song Not a Lone Wold is played here by the author Petra Hesová and her brother Jiří Hes.
Machoband - The Best of Mankind
/profoundly manly music/
There is a student celebration with anarchist flair in my homeland called Majáles. High school senior class members campaign in carnival style and the student body elects their 'Král Majálesu - roughly King of May' by popular vote. By the way, Alan Ginsberg wrote a poem Kral Majales inspired by his Prague May experiences.
My class's campaign was in an exquisitely ironic fashion: Macho Man. As a part of the campaign, we produced an album of original Macho music with my classmates in a truly self-publishing fashion in about three days. I wrote the music and lyrics to the first two songs, performed piano and vocals, and designed the photo-copier-friendly booklet.
My invaluable team mates include the master of arrangement, percussion and guitar Frank H., sound master Dan K., and many other friends on various instruments.
PS: All the songs are indeed in Czech.
MachoSong
MaximoMacho
2009, Filip Goc et al. Some Rights Reserved. Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported).
Swingclub at UVA
Back in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia I was the propaganda adviser and media developer for the Swing Club at UVA (+ an occasional dance instructor). I had some fun developing the little intro graphic for my class reviews. The trick was to make it so short so that people do not feel the urge to skip ahead. It should increase the branding consistency but not annoy the viewers by keeping them from the content for too long.
Some of the posters I made for my beloved Swing Club when I was an undergrad at the University of Virginia.
I even made animated versions to be broadcasted through interactive screens around campus, but the technical support could never make it work.