- My experience with art making includes several classes I took in senior year of high school where I gained significant experience making art. A basic 2D art class, a darkroom photography class, a film literature class for which I made 3 short films, and an information technology class for which I made a networked digital clock. I consider many of my DIY projects to be combinations of art and functionality. The clock was programmed in C on a Raspberry PI and used shift registers as well as a custom 7 segment display.
- My experience with programming, electronics, or other tech
I am a robotics engineering major with many years of experience in designing and building artistic inputs and outputs for computer processes. For a complete list of my projects visit my websites nxgamarra.com
Below you can see a video that I edited of my most resent final group project for a robotics class.
Laser etched acrylic control panel for space simulation video game. Used Arduino Due and C programming concepts to communicate user inputs with game. Built out of many reused components from period electronics. Demonstrated project at World Maker Faire 2016 in NYC.
- I am creatively inspired by the intersection of art and engineering. In my work I strive to make aesthetically pleasing and functional pieces of art. This can be seen in my past works like my motorized bicycle.
- Art fits into your goals as an engineer because I strive to make aesthetically educated design choices. I think one of the most underappreciated forms of art are the aesthetic choices that go into engineering prototypes .
- Recent creative projects I am proud of include my work in Interactive Electronic Art during B-Term. A link to my portfolio from that class can be seen below. For my final project Helmet Vision the helmet device is a metaphor for our use of technology and how it distracts and clouds our vision of thing in our immediate surroundings. The device both enables you and hinders you from knowing special information about where you are. In this way is acts as a stand in for the cell phones that tell us extra information about our world but also prevent us from knowing other information. For more on this project visit my portfolio page for the class linked below.
https://wpi.digication.com/nxgamarra/home-1
Last year at WPI I also took figure drawing. Below is my final self portrait for the class.
