Students' Art Blends Photos, Computation

(Tech Talk December 9, 1998)

For Professor John Maeda's graduate "Numeric Photography" class at the Media Laboratory (MAS961), students were equipped with low-end digital cameras to explore aesthetic issues in signal processing and interaction design. In weekly assignments, the students created more than a hundred applets -- many of which are interactive -- that suggest new avenues for image-play on the computer. An exhibition of their digital artworks, which blend photography and computation, will be presented on Friday, Dec. 11 from 3-8pm in the E15 atrium (20 Ames St). A reception will be held at 6pm. You can also experience their online exhibition at starting December 11.

Ben Fry's
"Autumn" by Media Lab graduate student Ben Fry

Golan Levin's
"Fingerbahn" by Media Lab graduate student Golan Levin

 

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