ITP Spring Show 2010 - Now With Cannolis!
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The document summarizes Sharon Panelo's experience at the ITP Spring Show in May 2010, which showcased student projects that explored themes like representation, surveillance, interaction, and cultural norms through installations involving light, pixels, mirrors, wearable devices, and more. The show had an interactive and hands-on approach to digital media and featured exhibits that incorporated live plants, kinetic sculptures, and eye-tracking technology. Panelo also encountered fellow attendees like professors, alumni, and students working on projects involving waste reuse, religious art, retro games, and augmented reality toys.
![Black Jesus!
(Officially: “Shrine to the Black Nazareth”)
Alexis lights a candle at Krystal Banzon’s exhibit.
Photocells detect the lit candles, and “the frame rate of the video [a Good Friday
religious procession in the Philippines] speeds up and the color gets distorted,
emphasizing the frightening fanaticism of religious devotion.”](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/itpspringshow2010-panelo-100511125216-phpapp02/85/ITP-Spring-Show-2010-Now-With-Cannolis-21-320.jpg)
ITP Spring Show 2010 - Now With Cannolis!
- 1. ITP Spring Show.... now with cannolis! Sharon Panelo May 2010
- 2. What is ITP? The Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) was founded at NYU in 1979 as the first graduate program in alternative media. Twice a year the students hold an open house to showcase their work. This was my spin through the funhouse on May 10, 2011....
- 3. The way I see it, ITP is a hands-on approach to The Information Age: a tactile approach to the digital -- and equal parts art gallery and science fair. The fusion of online+offline was a theme that jumped out at me. Other recurring ideas include...
- 4. Representation & Identity Here I’m holding a camera in real-time wavy pixels. Manipulating light, pixels, wooden mirrors to (literally, figuratively) explore personal reflections.
- 5. Surveillance culture Who’s watching? This eye never sleeps.
- 6. Reactive touch In this booth, Alexis makes a different colored lightshow each time she pokes the furry thing. Texture & touch remind me of new worlds opening from touchscreen interfaces: from smartphones to beyond!
- 7. Remind us never to make babies together (Me+Alexis) Baseball helmets with webcams divide the wearer’s face into quadrants. A separate controller allows you to splice the images onscreen to form mutant genetic combinations with friends & strangers.
- 8. Whimsical explorations of stereotypes and cultural norms In this project, the student explored the “Attraction According to Height” function by strapping on a pair of elevator shoes -- literally, shoes that rose to the occasion via a mechanical springboard lift. As she went about her daily business in Manhattan, she was now able to grasp the top bar in the subway, or reach the highest shelves at the grocery store. When men stopped her on the street, she could literally elevate herself to see eye-to-eye.
- 9. My two favorite exhibits although I’m pretty sure I didn’t get to see everything. It was very crowded in there.
- 10. Headphones made of live terrariums Put the glass globes on: hear crickets moving among leaves and other sounds of nature.
- 11. Emotions in motion AWKWARD CONTROLLING PASSIVE- AGGRESSIVE The artist created moving wall units to represent dominant characteristics of his friends. Each unit had a kinetic-mechanical movement to represent the personality trait. * Much better in motion, I should have taken a video
- 12. Oh, I also ran into Three awesome people!
- 13. #1: Krystal “Hands-on” Banzon Fulbright scholar, Theatre Arts mogul, and all-around kick-ass lady, Krystal Banzon is on my running fan-list of Awesome ITP Filipinas (including Larilyn Sanchez, Phoebe Espiritu, et al...)
- 14. #2: Nien Lam Watch out for Nien and his budding toy design empire, mwa-ha-ha! Nien is co-producer of these original action figures with an augmented reality twist. You stick a wooden block in ‘em and they reveal magical powers... www.augtopia.com
- 15. Awesome Person #3 Web culture guru, author of Here Comes Everybody and other seminal texts, Clay Shirky is also a professor at ITP. I actually didn’t see him at the show, but I did run into him on the street afterwards, walking down Broadway. He’s intimidatingly tall especially in a sharp suit. If I were less shy, there’d be a photo of us here.
- 16. Two short videos The dancing bits in the first clip (Flux Continuum by Patricia Adler) would make an excellent music video, or a Google Chrome Ad. The second clip is another interactive light/ color wall. Many parts of the ITP show reminded me of exhibits at the PS.1. Art Museum in Queens... similar aesthetics and processes.
- 17. The end! For a more informed perspective of the ITP Show (including student names and project descriptions), visit the official site at http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/spring2010/
- 18. Epilogue: Cannolis! PS: Italian pastries are the perfect antidote to the ITP experience. We got your afterparty right here! (Thanks Emily!) Sharon Panelo, 2010 www.hellopanelo.com
- 19. Parting note: Four other cool things
- 20. WASTEWALL: Re-imagining waste (urine, rainwater, algae) in a luxury bathroom setting. Adib Dada
- 21. Black Jesus! (Officially: “Shrine to the Black Nazareth”) Alexis lights a candle at Krystal Banzon’s exhibit. Photocells detect the lit candles, and “the frame rate of the video [a Good Friday religious procession in the Philippines] speeds up and the color gets distorted, emphasizing the frightening fanaticism of religious devotion.”
- 22. Running of the Bulls: A retro arcade game of the Pamplona event, using electromechanical relays, gears, switches, cardboard. Greg Borenstein, Scott Wayne Indiana Retro-modern
- 23. Eye-tracking technology! A) Put on sunglasses, rigged with eye-movement tracking gadget. B) If you were a marketer, you would use this to track “user eyeballs” on a web page, and to identify where to place paid content like ads. C) At ITP, this technology is used to EXPLODE VIRTUAL FRUIT. Focus your eye on the bullseye target and the bananas will burst.