Cinderella’s Illuminated Gown
POSTED IN Fashionable Technology, Installation, Physical Computing, Portfolio June 17, 2011
Cinderella’s Illuminated Gown is a fiber optic/LED/fibre, time-based installation that unravels the interstitial state of transformation and ephemeral nature of Cinderella’s Gown. The project focuses on the role of Cinderella’s gown as a portal between the ordinary and the extraordinary.
2010-2011
Fiber Optics, LEDs, Fibre, Steel Rods
Variable Dimensions
Cybernetic Editors
POSTED IN Max/MSP, Portfolio, Video Art June 30, 2011
Cybernetic Editors is a system in which there are two editor personalities that are vying for control over the final outcome of an edited social education video. The source video is exchanged between two Max/MSP programs that re-edit snippets of video, making numerous iterative passes. Each pass changes the videos into a blend of the two editing styles of the two cybernetic editors.
Lethe
POSTED IN Installation, Max/MSP, Portfolio, Video Art June 30, 2011
Lethe is a video installation in which a loop of Social Education film is manipulated programmatically. The loop features different major events in the lives of the fictional women such as marriage, spousal disagreements, choosing whether to have children or not. These events are manipulated by either delaying video frames, showing repeated actions, or by abstracting the scene such that the figures are shapeless masses of black, white and grey. As the video loops though the scenes, the understanding of the events happening is modified for the viewers, such that two viewers, who saw the loop at different times, would have a different understanding of how they perceived the emotions of events that are happening.
Lethe 2010
Video Installation
LVMH Pre-submission
POSTED IN Portfolio, Video Editing June 27, 2011
This is my team’s pre-submission for the 2009-2010 LVMH/Parsons competition where we created a documentary sample based on puppetry research. Completed with Chien-Pai “Bobby” Lin, Ya-Han Tsui.
Glassmaker Documentary
POSTED IN Portfolio, Video Editing June 22, 2011
An excerpt of a 5 minute documentary on the practice of New York artisan, Michiko Sakano as part of the LVMH x Parsons: Revisitng the Art of Craftsmanship, Artisans New York competition. Exhibited as part of LVMH: Revisiting the Art of Craftsmanship Exhibit at Fashion week 2010 and Monthlong Exhibit on Govenor’s Island.
Director, Editor: Laura Simpson
Glassmaker Documentary excerpt from Laura Simpson on Vimeo.
CongressTweets
POSTED IN Data Visualization, Interactive Design, Portfolio June 21, 2011
Collaborating with Andrea Bradshaw, we created an interactive data visualization of the Twitter habits of United States Congressmen.
We used data from the Twitter API, the Sunlight Foundation and the New York Times Congressional API. Using the interface, users could compare attendance at votes, voting with or against party records, according to twitter activity, represented region, party and gender.
Our project was featured on a Swiss data visualization site, +DataVisualization.ch and noticed by Tweet Congress and New York Times Openblog.
I think I miss you
POSTED IN Portfolio, Video Art June 20, 2011
I think I miss you is a video that visits the details of greetings and replaying/re-editing of elements of the relationship between the two female figures as they greet, interact and say farewell. The simple act is revisited and edited in camera, distorting the event and refocusing to a dreamlike, almost memory. This video acts as a meta video as the qualities of hi-8 video and dv- tape and the mechanics of the two recording mediums are interplayed with each other.
Mozilla University Design Challenge 09
POSTED IN Interactive Design, Portfolio, User Experience April 20, 2011
Parsons participated in the 2009 Mozilla Design Challenge with two other universities, all addressing the issue of how to visualize the user’s browser history in a meaningful way.
My solution was the Unique History Timeline.
The Unique History Timeline is focused on
helping the user to remember unique sites that he or she might have visited and uses visual and timeline queues to help refresh their memory.
The Unique History Timeline has the following features:
- Thumbnail screen shots of individual sites
- A List view and Timeline view for user preference
- Separates frequently visited sites from those unique one off sites, collapsing the listings in the history window for quicker browsing.
Scribbling Speech
POSTED IN Installation, Portfolio April 15, 2011
Scribbling Speech is an organic performance and installation. The artist writes all of her responses to interaction and stimulus in marker on the wall of the performance space, creating historical trails of the experience. Each of the columns are the height of the artist, to keep the footprint of the piece human size.
The Performance took place Feb. 18th 2009 from 10am-6:30pm.
Logically Speaking
POSTED IN Installation, Portfolio, Video Art February 14, 2011
Logically Speaking combines the frustrations, desires, estrangement and fantastic quotidian observations of an artist abroad. These words are paired with logical notation and proofs that resolve easily in comparison.
Subverting Social Education Films
POSTED IN Portfolio, Video Editing | TAGS : video February 22, 2010
This is an intervention into a social education film from 1953: “Social Sexual Development in Adolescents.” The original film was available via the Prelinger Archives.
Social Sexual Development in Adolescents – Re-edit
Social Sexual Development in Adolescents: Re-edit from Laura Simpson on Vimeo.