Mary Notari

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  • [D4LP] Artifacts of Consequence – Cornell Box

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    Assignment: Make a “Cornell Box” that expresses your emotional response to Artifacts of Consequence Simple Sentence Description of the Play: “Artifacts of Consequence is about priorities.” Complex Sentence Description of the Play: “Artifacts of Consequence is about how we decide what is important in life.” The inspiration for the my Cornell box came from a couple of…

  • [Design for Live Performance] Artifacts of Consequence

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    Fuchs’ Small Planet Response Mold the play into a medium-sized ball, set it before you in the middle distance and squint your eyes. Make the ball small enough that you can see the entire planet, not so small that you lose detail, and not so large that detail overwhelms the whole.  Elinor Fuchs, “Visit to a Small Planet” World of the…

  • [Wearables] Final Project

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    Folk Wisdom Wearables, Part 2: A Watched Pot Never Boils The saying “A watched pot never boils” is used to describe the phenomenon of time seemingly slowing to a halt whenever your mind is consumed with waiting for something. I took this idea to its literal and logical conclusion and created a wearable that will…

  • [Wearables] Final Project Ideas

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  • [Wearables] Assignment #4 – Connectivity

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    Storm’s A Comin’ 2.0 Materials PN2222A Transistor – NPN bipolar junction transistor, used for general purpose low-power amplifying or switching applications (EBC pinout) 1N4001 Diode – blocking voltage 50 V Code 104 0.1µF Ceramic Capacitor 220 Ohm Resistor (red red brown gold) LiPo 3.7 V battery MKR1010 Small Vibration Motor I ran the following code…

  • [Wearables] Assignment #3 – Expressive Garment

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    ASSIGNMENT: Create a garment that expresses a message or information to those around you. IDEA: Dancer’s wings with sound reactive LEDs MATERIALS Flora RGB Smart NeoPixel version 2 – Sheet of 20 FLORA – Wearable electronic platform: Arduino-compatible – v3 Adafruit Microphone Amplifier Breakout 8 yards of lightweight, semi-transparent fabric (found for free in the ITP Soft Lab) 8 yards of lightweight, semi-transparent 1.25″ width ribbon (Botani Trimmings)…

  • [Wearables] Assignment #2 – Storm’s ‘A Comin’

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    Assignment: Create a new sense using wearables There is a piece of folk wisdom here in the US that says one can feel it in their bones when the weather is changing. While this lends itself to more than a few caricatures of old codgers sitting on the porch, there is some anecdotal evidence that…

  • [PtM] Reading Response: Extrapolation Factory Operation Manual

    [PtM] Reading Response: Extrapolation Factory Operation Manual

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    Hot Take: Your design optimism is just a new form neoliberal imperialism. I really don’t care for the pictures of white designers “empathizing” with brown research subjects. I know we’re supposed to be responding to Extrapolation Factory Operations Manual, but something about the IDEO book is rubbing me the wrong way. Now to the actual response… It is inspiring to learn about speculative design and to see the…

  • [Wearables] Assignment 1: Paul’s Tie

    [Wearables] Assignment 1: Paul’s Tie

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    Class: Intro to Wearables (Jingwen Zhu, Spring 2019) Assignment: Create a soft circuit using 1 battery, at least 2 LEDs, and 1 switch; be creative with the switch. For our first assignment, we were given the chance to create any soft circuit we wanted, on whatever we wanted––existing clothing or not. When thinking about creative…

  • [P-Comp] Final Project – Shy Guy

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    OVERVIEW Meet Shy Guy. He’s a puppet able to perform a simple emotional arch in collaboration with a human scene-partner. Using an infrared sensor, a micro-servo, and Arduino, Shy Guy acts out three emotional states in reaction to the proximity of his human’s hand to his sensor: Fear, Curiosity, and Affection.  Fear Shy Guy’s default…