CODING in Emergent Digital Practices ———————————————–
This course provides the fundamental concepts of digital interactive software, including the study of how the computer processes information and can be leveraged to create relationships with and between people. Students learn programming fundamentals in ways that are applicable across all types of programming. The basic ideas of Human Computer Interface are introduced and put into practice.

Jacques Gerber: Nightmare
Jacques made a three-part generative piece that resembles a beautiful and terrifying recurring nightmare that he has experienced.

Michael Glantz: The Elements
Michael’s piece explored earth, wind, fire and water in a 3D processing game.

 

WEARABLES———————————————————————-

This is an advanced undergraduate and graduate course which provides an introduction to critical wearable art and electronics. Contemporary context will be covered, as well as artists and critical theory relating to wearable art, needle and fabric work. Students will learn basic circuitry, soldering and testing, connections between hard and soft circuits, various sensors and sensor creation, materials for wearable applications and some of their advantages and limitations, various micro controllers, as well as some needlework and how to use a sewing machine.

 

Christine DeCarteret: Beautiful Vulnerability
Beautiful Vulnerability is a necklace and headpiece that encourage the wearer to embrace their vulnerabilities by publicly displaying intimate information about the wearer in a beautiful and delicate way.

The necklace plugs into the microcontroller on the headpiece and the earpiece clips on to the wearer’s ear. The headpiece reads the wearer’s pulse through the ear piece and displays the wearer’s heartbeat through the medallion in the center of the necklace. If the wearer’s heart rate goes above 90 BPM, a light on the headpiece will activate and the headpiece will try to calm the wearer down by massaging the wearer’s temple with a small vibrating motor.

The form of Beautiful Vulnerability is beautiful and vulnerable in its own right. All the technological components of the piece are exposed. The conductive thread that makes the whole project work is protected only by a single layer of small glass beads. The color scheme was also chosen to reflect these ideas: Red, the color of blood/the heart, against white, meant to evoke innocence and helplessness.

I myself am prone to panic attacks, which make me feel powerless. It’s alarming when your heart, normally a source of power, feels out of control and renders you fragile. This project was a way of confronting these perceived weaknesses and turning them into something beautiful, honest, and candid.

Jenny BC Filipetti: Switchable Embroidery
In this piece, black snaps are connected to power and silver snaps aren’t, letting the user rearrange form, light, and color as (s)he desires by moving around the small detail pieces and snapping them into place.

 

Ross Edfort: Alarm Blindfold
Hearing impaired people need to use alternative ways to wake them selves up in the morning. Most of the products marketed towards people with this sort of problem are bulky, obtrusive and uncomfortable. They hinder the wearer’s ability to sleep. I wanted to create a comfortable and breathable alternative that has the same effect.

o This project explores a safe and easy way to use wearable tech to wake the deaf
o Vibration motor combined with light sensor
o Takes the forms of a blind fold to play on the reduction of senses
o Using a soft circuit to wire the sensor to the motor to vibrate, calmly waking the wearer.

EMERGENT DIGITAL TOOLS ——————————————————-
This graduate course serves as a primer on the tools essential to expression, sharing, and creation in digital mediums. This includes knowledge of web technologies, creative coding, video, audio, and the basic historical and theoretical contexts of each.

Chadwick Friedman: EDP Particle Logo
This Processing Sketch is a particle system that uses ArrayList and PVector to trace text with particles. It develops slowly over time into the Emergent Digital Practices logo. This sketch was made specifically for a vertical 1920×1080 size monitor for the Emergent Digital Practices offices at the University of Denver.

Glenna Xie: The Ultimate Morning Alarm
This is a micro-controller project that I built using Arduino Uno and the Sparkfun Gesture Sensor. When the alarm goes off at a certain time, the piezo buzzer plays Symphony No.5 by Beethoven. To stop the alarm, one has to use the correct gesture pattern.

 

IMAGING in Emergent Digital Practices———————————————-
This course introduces digital imaging and digital illustration. Foundational technical methods and semiotics are introduced as ways to explore contemporary visual language. Students gain understanding in the digital creation and deciphering of images in 2D space. The essential language and concepts concerning representation and digital reproduction are developed through critical study and making.

ASSIGNMENT: Create a believable fantastical creature in its “normal” environment. In order to accomplish this, you must pull at least 5 photographic elements (2 mega pixels or greater) together from existing content to create something new and imaginative. One of the elements must be the main component of the piece serving as the backbone that holds the entire creation together. Components from the other assets are then added to it making it the unique form you wish it to be.

KC Corlett

ASSIGNMENT: Create an animated GIF that is cyclical using 30 or more frames.

Gregg Hardie

ASSIGNMENT: Create a dynamic collage on a 24”x36” art board using raster image and vector illustrations simultaneously. You must have a minimum of 7 unique objects and no more than 21. All should speak to the major focus of your design. Of your objects, half must be masked raster image and the other vector. Of the vectors, only half of them can be manipulated live traces. This project serves as an inquiry into not only creating a dynamic visual display and composition, but also a synthesis of all the skills learned up to this point in time. Do not use images that are ads. Images must allow for remixing.

Sommer Shearer