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[jazzchica33]

Wandering around Tisch while waiting to defend my thesis. *gulp* The floor is a bit tense at the moment, so it’s nice to be where people are talking and making noise. lol. Fully aware that it’s gonna be fine, but nerves are a thing /flail #nyuitp @itp_nyu (at NYU Tisch School of the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxLI-3zhvqd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ttyisl02vqw8

[studio-helsinki]

Look this game design for kids course by Greg Trefry

http://iamtheeconomy.com/big-games.html

[puppetoke]

#NYUITP

[christopherberger]

So cool. Cyborg synth sleeve at #NYUITP winter show!

[i-x-d-x]

RECAP: NYU ITP Show Spring '14

Maybe I'm jaded, or maybe now that I'm more informed on what these technologies are/can be, either way, I wasn't super blown away this year. Maybe it's because I'm less fascinated with the technology itself, and more interested in what it can do or the idea it can help facilitate. To be fair, there were a lot more students it seemed and it was very crowded, so please forgive my brash assumptions and immediately negative opinions. 

HOWEVER, there were some refreshing ideas and good projects. There were two major winners for me. They were both in the back, and maybe I call them winners (wieners, bad pre-emptive joke) because they actually had space to exhibit their work.

The first of which was a connected device system. A student (I cannot find his name right now, but I am working on it) had connected recycled pieces of metal, objects once used and now seemingly out of commission, and turned them into an entire communicative system. You could talk into the phone, which then controlled a tiny horse who would walk around in circles if you spoke loud enough. The connections could be transposed, and reconnected between objects, and were entirely manipulatable via an HTML site on an iPad. The interface was also very simple: two dials you spun to connect which ever objects you wanted to control, via one another. Then, you could spin the dials again and connect other, different objects. As long as an object had an input and an output, it could communicate with the others. This lends itself to an immense amount of options. Just think if you could tell your bed to tell your coffee machine to turn on by turning a dial on your phone. Controlling remote objects from another remote object could provide a literal world of connections and possibility. 

The second idea, that I think everyone else also loved, was just a plain and simple, good concept. She (don't know her name right now either !!) connect a Kinect to a lot of Arduino motors and some plastic penises. When you waved your hands up, all the penises became erect. When you waved your hands down, they all became limp. But here's the kicker: they also responded to the stock market. Yep, when stock prices fell, so did the dicks. I mean, how great is that? 

To wrap up my impression of this year, good ideas > technology, but the right technology can really help out a good idea.