Archive for September, 2009
Cabinets Week 3: MJH, NMAI, & Eldridge St.
For our third week of visits, Nancy asked us to explore three museums focused on the history or art of specific communities. I chose to visit the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and the National Museum of the American Indian. I had visited the Museum at Eldridge Street a few weeks ago, and my time there [...]
Rest of You Week 2: Heart Rate, meet Noise.
For Rest of You this week, Dan asked us to collect data from two sensors and send the data to a file. He suggested that one sensor be facing inward (e.g. galvanic skin response, heart rate, body temperature) and one be facing outward to detect environmental changes (e.g. light, noise, air temperature). I decided to [...]
Cabinets Week 2: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
I’ve been to Brooklyn Botanic several times, and I’m always a little surprised at how casual the entrance is. The guards are chatty, and people are sitting or standing in a relaxed way that is very different from other types of museums. I’ve noticed this at New York Botanical, too. This time I visited Brooklyn [...]
Rest of You Week 1: Analog In, Serial Out
For the first week of Rest of You, Dan asked us to brush up on our physical computing skills by reading input from two sensors through Arduino and displaying the readings in Processing. My skills were pretty rusty, so first I reviewed the Analog In and Serial Out labs. I wanted to see readings from [...]
Cabinets Week 1: The Met and The Frick
Last Saturday afternoon I visited The Frick Collection and The Metropolitan Museum of Art for Cabinets of Wonder. For each visit, Nancy has asked us to gather our first impressions of the place, observe others in the space, and write a collection of short reviews, adopting a variety of viewpoints. The Frick always seems to [...]