For my final project, I wanted to explore how we related and connect information with each other and the mediums we use to do so. In particular, I wanted to create a game similar to “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes” in which one player must interact with a set of encoded information, and the other…
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Connection Final Project Sketch- Will Aaron
For the final project, I will be creating an investigative interface in which two participants must perform a sort of brain surgery puzzle in which they reconnect someone’s thoughts and mind to their body. Player 1 will control an Arduino interface in which they use an x-y grid controller built from a tilt sensor and…
Arduino Sensor Sketch- Will Aaron
So it turns out my sensors and wires have been delayed even longer so I decided to work with the default photoresistor that came with my kit. It changes the shape size and color of a jitter object in Max.
The Noisy Opera Singer- Will Aaron- Computer Vision
For my Computer Vision sketch, I wanted to create a masked face for the user to wear and have that mask respond on various levels to audio input, however I changed the scope slightly into processing audio which is much more satisfying. Warning- Slightly Loud.
Will Aaron- Meme Remix Sketch
I took a clip from SpongeBob, then I took a funny TikTok I saw once, then sequenced them together. Enjoy!
Interactive Touch- Poetry Lyre- Will Aaron
For my Interactive Touch project, I decided to explore the ways with which we communicate with each other. To do so, I create an electric lyre with the Makey Makey and conductive string to play different tones. As the participant plays the instrument, a Unity application slowly reveals a poem to the user while animating…
Will Aaron- Interactive Touch Input Sketch
So I’ve decided to change my original idea and form pretty significantly. For my input instrument, I instead modeled it as a sort of Harp/ Lyre form. The instrument has 12 conductive strings each mapping to one of twelve possible keyboard inputs in the Makey Makey. Each of the twelve inputs will map to a…
Will Aaron- Interactive Touch Concept Sketch
For my interactive touch project, I really wanted to somehow bring in poetry to the audio tools available with Max and what we’ve already tried with the Makey Makey. One of my recent favorite poets is Fahria Roisin. She’s an Australian-Canadian poet who writes about her identity as a queer South Asian Muslim woman. My…
Will Aaron-Makey Makey Audio Player Sketch
For this sketch, I wanted to use some piano chords to craft my audio player, and Still Dre has some of the easiest chords I know, so it was quick to map it into Max8. The setup used the left, up, and right arrow keys and maps them to a button object which connects to…
Data Art- Gentrification, Music City
My Data Art project centers around demonstrating the recent gentrification of Nashville, TN with the rise in housing prices with the city’s growth. Like many cities in the south, Nashville has a decently sized socio-economic gap in affluence which follows racial demographics due to a long-standing history of racism and generational wealth. This interactive piece…
Data Sketch- Gentrification, Music City
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about cities, towns, and the places which we call home; I’ll be graduating at the end of this year, and I’ll need to define a new home for myself wherever that may be. Before I moved to Worcester, my childhood home was Nashville, Tennessee. The city has grown massively…
Will Aaron
Hi there! I’m Will and I’m a senior physics and math major from Nashville, Tennessee. To me, art is a process of self-fulfillment allowing me to express myself beyond my work in mathematics and theoretical physics. Above all other creative pursuits, I’m definitely a writer. I really enjoy writing fiction, prose, essays, and poetry, and…