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…work in progress – more coming soon… Before the Internet, the way in which we informed ourselves was by word-of-mouth, going to libraries, reading books, magazines, and newspapers. We would...Information in the Digital World – Freedom or Segregation
This game is being developed as part of a Collaborative course: Systems & Games. Working together with Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Center we are developing games around the...Who? What? Where? – Collab: Systems & Games
Day & Night is a tapestry that comes together with a plush butterfly. It allows kids from 2 to 4 years old interact with a moon / sun and a...Day & Night | Interactive Tapestry for Kids
This project was born out of my interest in studying colors and how we perceive them in our lives. My idea was to generate, through the configuration of space and...Exploration of the Color Blue
Using an Arduino LilyPad, a pulse sensor, and LED’s I created this project that deals with the boundaries between private and public. I sewed an LED’s heart on a jeans...From the Inside-Out
This project is a sound interactive piece that uses color in the same way as the metallophone did – where each color represented a note. Each sphere, depending on its...Sound Interactive Piece
The Magic Stick is my first game. I made it using serial communication between Arduino and Processing. The audiences for this game are people that have a small amount of...The Magic Stick – a game
    Stop & Frisk Physical Object Each of the three sections represents a race: Black, Hispanic, and White. The amount of each powder is in relation to the percentage...Stop & Frisk – Data Visualization
Plush Butterfly is a toy made of soft fabric, which is perfect for babies. It has color LED’s on its wings. During the day it’s a toy but at night...Plush Butterfly
“Among Surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis. Based on an old parlor game, it was...Exquisite Corpse | Recycle MTA
The assignment was to identify quotidian encounters in our life where the issue of survival to the environmental crisis were addressed. We had to make 5 small projects, each one...Zone of the Impending
2nd Iteration: Love is an interactive animation & now comes with 2 buttons!!! When one button is pressed there is one heart blinking. When the other button is pressed, the...Love | Lol Shield Interactive Animation
The concept is a lamp that interacts with the environment. The lamp consists on a black-pumpkin, as night, which has blue LEDs and one RGB Led. Every time the light...Pumpkin Sky-Lamp
With the appearance of online shopping the way we, as consumers, experience shopping has completely changed. The physical connection with the product – touching it, smelling it and seeing what...AMAZON.COM: Take Back Your Garbage
This is a patch that plays by itself or one can play and it changes the visuals, using only the RGB layers of the matrix – turning them on or...Colors
It is hard to imagine life without a mobile phone. For the past decades, this small technological device has transformed our lives and has become an extension of ourselves, an...Mobile Phones – NO TURNING BACK
This is my patch for max/msp which combines different segments of Lights and Water by Takashi Wada. Depending on the frequencies of each segment the squares of one of the...MAX/MSP Visuals
The world in which we live today is filled with rules. Our daily behavior is orchestrated by the city in which we live, by the transport we choose, by the...Blank Note Pad
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