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Jonah Brucker-Cohen’s WordPlay at The Interactive Show – Saturday June 10th

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Jun 062023

Experience Jonah Brucker-Cohen’s WordPlay at the Interactive Show coming up June 10!

““WordPlay” is an interactive installation that allows people to create and publish novel stories by selecting individual words from a combination of word types. Using a similar method of the popular kid’s game, “Mad Libs”, WordPlay invites the public to choose from a selection of “nouns”, “verbs”, “adjectives”, and “adverbs” printed on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) cards and add them to system. WordPlay collects and visualizes each word by remixing a selection of text based quotes and facts. Once completed, the final story or passage is displayed on the screen allowing the public to read their stories. The resulting text is time stamped and encoded into a unique URL, and uploaded to the project’s website and Twitter where the public can read online what was created inside the exhibition space in realtime. Output from the project is here on the website: http://www.wordplay.xyz“

Artist: Jonah Brucker-Cohen

The 13th Annual Interactive Show: Robot Phreak Show
NYC Resistor’s Interactive Show returns for its 13th iteration. Our annual party and fundraiser invites hackers from around the region to show off their cool interactive projects with free beats and beers provided. Tickets $17.85 ($15 + fees) in advance, $20 at the door.

This year’s theme is Robot Phreak Show. Our bots have been cooped up too long, it’s time to let their chaos reign. More projects to be announced soon. Keep checking the Resistor Blog and follow us on Instagram for previews!

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Hannah House’s ‘Release’ at The Interactive Show – Saturday June 10th

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Jun 052023

Experience Hannah House‘s ‘Release’ at the Interactive Show coming up June 10!

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“A stressful topic is written on a piece of paper. It is lit ablaze. A flame sensor picks up the burst of light and triggers an LED neon sculpture of a glyph signifying release.”

Artist: Hannah House

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Kari Setsuko Love’s Pneumatic Candy Robot No. 1 at The Interactive Show – Saturday June 10th #3 #2

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Jun 052023

Experience Kari Setsuko Love‘s Pneumatic Candy Robot No. 1 at the Interactive Show coming up June 10!

“Pneumatic Candy Robot No. 1 is a kinetic mixed-media sculpture combining candy with robotics. Candy serves as a medium to transform cold experiences with complicated technology into exciting accessible encounters. It invites the viewer to play by providing a surprising interaction, which aims to first make them laugh and then draw out their curiosity. In this way it can be an entry point to demystify potentially confusing technology while doubling as edible sculpture. Eating a candy robot engages all 5 senses, and then goes one step further by becoming part of the user. While each user can independently manipulate a spherical candy with the robot and eat it, by the end of the event the robot will be eaten in its entirety.”

Artist: Kari Setsuko Love

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Suraj Barthy’s Traces of Us at The Interactive Show – Saturday June 10th #3

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Jun 042023

Experience Suraj Barthy’s Traces of Us at the Interactive Show coming up June 10!

“Traces of Us is a real-time interactive installation where a participant comes and places puzzle pieces to complete a puzzle in front of them. Each participant can place only one piece, and their face is captured with a camera and the part of their face that would be covered by the piece they place is projected on the placed piece. As participants place piece after piece, the puzzle slowly starts forming a face, with each puzzle piece being a part of a different participant’s face.

For example, if a participant places a piece where the right eye should be, their right eye would be projected onto the piece. If the next participant places a piece where the left eye should be, their left eye would be projected onto it. When another participant places a piece where the nose should be, their nose would be projected onto the piece.

The larger idea behind the project is that we are nothing without the traces of all the people we have met and never met in our life and that we are all connected across time and space.”

Artist: Suraj Barthy

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Becky Stern’s LED Kaleidoscopes at The Interactive Show – Saturday June 10th

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Jun 032023

Experience Becky Stern‘s build of Debra Ansell from Geek Mom Project‘s LED Kaleidoscopes at the Interactive Show coming up June 10!

Designed by Debra Ansell, these 3D printed kaleidoscopes hold wireless LEDs inside. More project info: https://beckystern.com/2023/04/16/3d-printed-light-up-kaleidoscope/

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@drmbt’s ShadowSelfie™ at The Interactive Show – Saturday June 10th

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Jun 022023

Experience @drmbt ShadowSelfie™ at the Interactive Show coming up June 10!

An Evil Mirror powered by an AI Cyber-Bully

“As generative AI technologies disseminate, many questions are raised regarding the ethics pertaining AI alignment, the consequence of releasing this technology on an unprepared general public, and social implications of massive data models and the implicit biases baked into the data set.

With the stage set for this technology to change the way we engage with our computers and each other, there are also many concerns pertaining to the concentration of this power in the hands of a few capitalist mega corps, and the guard rails they decide to place on the kind of content their technology generates.

A study in pipelining as many bleeding edge AI models as possible, ShadowSelfie™ forces the observer to subject themselves to verbal abuse at the hands of an inanimate object, taking an objective CV image analysis and applying a prompted GPT call to critique, insult, and interrogate the mirror’s observer, which is read back with Text To Speech technology. Although the observer doesn’t exist, does the blow still land?“

Artist: @drmbt (aka Vincent Naples)

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DIY Picture Mat Cutting – Make-Along This Pro Framing Element – 6/4/2023

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May 302023

DIY Picture Mat Cutting - Make-Along This Pro Framing Element

Tickets on EventBrite for this Sunday, June 4 · 1 – 3pm EDT event

Learn how to bevel cut mat board to give your photos and art that professional look!

Do you have an awkwardly sized photo or piece of art that doesn’t fit in a standard frame? Or do you want to save $$ by matting and framing your art yourself instead of taking it to a frame shop? Well, this make-a-long is for you! Learn how to use a Logan Mat Cutter to cut a beveled window in mat board to make your art and photos look professional. Mat board and foam board backing will be provided (frames will not be provided).

Mat board provided will be 11×14 inches, so please bring one image that is around 8×10 inches. Mat cutter will be available to use after the class on our regular public nights.

This class will be lead by Resistor member, Ben K. Ben is an artist and a self taught diy-er who has framed hundreds of photos and pieces of art.

This will be a masks optional event.

Wool Felting! Learn + take home kit – 5/15/2023

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May 152023

Look at these cute Totoros that were made at last week’s needle felting class! You have another chance to make your own this Friday May 19th! eventbrite.com/e/618050003197

Announcing the Annual NYCR Interactive Show 2023

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May 092023

The NYC Resistor Interactive Show is around the corner! This year’s theme is Robot Phreak Show. The show is scheduled for June 10th 2023, and we have an open call for projects here. Your submission doesn’t necessarily have to be on theme, just something you want to exhibit at a party.

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Intro to TouchDesigner – 5/14/203

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May 062023

Intro to TouchDesigner

Tickets on EventBrite for this Sunday, May 14 · 3 – 6pm EDT class

TouchDesigner is a real time generative graphics application that can be used for anything from generating graphics using dynamic noise data in real-time to audio-responsive 3D geometry. We’ll go through multiple examples of how to start creating beautiful generative content in TouchDesigner. Interactive, immersive, generative media is the reason you’re investing in learning TouchDesigner, and this class helps you get started creating it right away!

In the class we will discuss the fundamentals of the TouchDesigner. If you have never used a node-based programming environment before, this class is for you. I walk you through the basics of TouchDesigner logic and workflows, explaining exactly what nodes and wires are and how they work. This includes a walk through of the basic settings and preferences you can leverage in TouchDesigner that set you up for success and make your life easier.

We will learn about all six of the operator families used by TouchDesigner, and how they integrate with the TouchDesigner workflow. I’ll walk you through an example project for each of them.

Instructor :Bio

Woody Poulard (aka GRNCH) is a Brooklyn-based artist/musician whose work focuses on generative audio-reactive visual installations and performances. He uses creative coding applications like TouchDesigner to generate real-time visuals, Blender for 3D design, and Ableton for music production. Trained in both audio and mechanical engineering, Woody also makes physical sculptures using digital fabrication techniques like 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC routing. GRNCH’s visuals use elements of abstract, futuristic, and hypnotic scenery, often paired with his signature sound: dark, cinematic, suspenseful techno and broken beat.

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