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[angieinstem]

Life Update:

Helllllo followers!

Sorry - I’ve literally been absent from the Tumblr world, AKA ignoring one half of my goal this semester. I have, however, been reading! I’m currently 100 pages (this is A LOT for me) into Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It’s definitely been a super hard reading for me with all the literary magic and historical references, but also just the challenge I need right now. With my Facebook being dominated by “experts” in international politics, institutionalized racism, and white people who refuse to acknowledge that racism is still a thing, this book is a way for me to focus all of my energy on a single narrative. To listen, read, and feel without the ability to form my own opinion or speak against it. I mean, it’s a published book, right?

Lately, I’ve also been consumed in my schoolwork. I don’t know about any other STEM students, but isn’t it weird how emotional and physical stress comes second to academic stress? Maybe I should use some I-statements here: I, Angie, am literally INCAPABLE of managing more than one stress at a time. Two weeks ago, my stress was coming to terms with the homophobia within my family. A week ago, it was coming out to my father, who was notorious for being a racist and homophobe - luckily, things went well. With the support of my girlfriend, my two best friends, and some double chocolate chip pancakes at iHop to celebrate, that night of coming out was a lot easier than I have ever imagined. 

-Pause: in case if anyone is late, I’m hellllla queer in all the ways (gender & sexuality). At this time, I came out to my dad as “gay,” because I’m not even going to try to get into conversation about other genders outside the gender binary.-

I told the rest of my family and my therapist about coming out to my biological father - and they were all proud and supportive. But part of me still feels empty. Sure, I’m out to the “world,” essentially. But I can’t help but feel that I’m being forced back into the closet. Sometimes I don’t feel safe or comfortable coming out to people, especially being at an engineering school. NYU Tandon has not proved itself to be LGBTQ friendly (or even women-friendly, tbh) just yet, considering “gay” is still thrown around as an insult and men are still doing stuff “like a girl.” 

I’ve got to go study for MATLAB, but I’ve had the sudden urge to write a blog post tonight!

This is all I’ve got for now! Feel free to leave me any questions in my ask! :)

Keep swimming,

Angie

[artlog]

Motion, Sound Installation x Lightbox 

The intersection of brands and art is common place these days. Big fashion brands sponsoring exhibitions at the Whitney or the Guggenheim and luxury bands dominating the landscapes at art fairs like Art Basel in Miami are now common place. The Austin, Texas based tech giant, Dell, took a different approach last week working with Lightbox to produce an interactive art installation. Dell provided its suite of technology, focusing on a new line of Dell XPS (#DellXPS) laptops and  enlisted several folks including artist Aerosyn-Lex and filmmaker Terence Nance.  The company then turned to Lightbox’s engineers to collaborate with other creative technologists and artists to build a three day installation, “Powered by Dell.”

The abstract paintings of artist Aerosyn-Lex were the foundation for much of the installation which began with a large mural on the outside of Lightbox’s Times Square warehouse building. From the outside, visitors entered trough a 20 foot sound and motion activated James Turrell inspired entryway. In the center of the space, lived a paint cloud touch screen art piece on the 4k screens of the XPS 13 and XPS 15s and a photo booth that superimposed guests’ images via Microsoft Kinect on top of videos of Aerosyn-Lex’s artworks.  The most ambitious project consisted of  a 3D soundscape room with a 4 wall projection and motion activated experience that spit out 10-15 second gifs of visitors with both live video footage and a data visualization of movement.   

Lightbox worked collaboratively with a team of artists and technologists who worked to create the various installations in the space. The team consisted of Grayson Earle, a new media artist and professor in the Graduate Department of Integrated Media Arts at Hunter, Jack Langerman at NYU Poly,  Sebastian Ramirez, a sound designer out of Indiana University, Matt Starr, a projection and Instagram artist known for the project walm.art, and a team out of Tisch's Interactive Technology Program (ITP) featuring Adrian Sas, Inpyo Chang and John Choi.  

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Poly receives $100 million gift, changes name

[angieinstem]

Happy Monday! “I am an NYU Engineer”

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I GOT INTTTOOOOO NYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE

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