Failure, Recalibration & Iteration – Josue and Chris

MUSIC INCORPORATION One aspect of the project that we had not looked into much was the musical portion. We came into the project knowing that we wanted to leverage music to make an engaging interactive light art piece, but we were not entirely sure how. We looked into various way’s of incorporating it and ended…

Josue Contreras & Chris Bell – Concept Proposal

Our team (Josue and Chris) has come up with three different concepts outlined in this post. They range from being lost in thought in a zen-environment to a fan that displays words as it rotates. The goal of these three concepts is to have the spectators interact with the art piece. We want the art…

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer – Light Artist

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexico City electronic artist that develops interactive installations which fuse architecture and performance art. His studio in Montreal consists of  14 coworkers that include programmers and creators. The works Hemmer produces are focused on public participation since “if nobody shows up, there’s no show,” Hemmer. His large scale installations have been…

Introduction & Art Portoflio- Josue D. Contreras

Hola! My name is Josue Contreras and I was born and raised in Quito, Ecuador. Currently I’m a Junior pursuing a double major in Robotics and Electrical & Computer Engineering with a focus in embedded systems and software engineering. I have written programs and taken classes in C/C++, Arduino, Verilog, Java, Python, and MatLab. Throughout…