Until fairly recently, fan engagement seemed low on the corporate priority list. Case in point: the sale of props and clothing from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, described in the article “The Clothes Make the Fan: Fashion and Online Fandom: When Buffy the Vampire Slayer Goes to eBay”1, was purportedly “for...

I felt guilty about how I didn’t do my best making my business card double sided, so I also did a visual language assignment our section wasn’t actually assigned– making a postcard for the winter show. The brief says that they were looking for “a more humanistic view of ITP”...

It’s funny what experiences carry over when you’re working. When doing physical computing projects, my mind naturally tends towards habits I developed in computer science and development: start small, and test often. Even before Benedetta told us to do so, I had a tendency to test my circuits in pieces...

The intersection of counterculture and commercialism often provokes strong emotions. If you’re a counterculture figure and sign a deal with a corporation, you’ll be angrily branded a sellout. If your art presents a brand in a way the owners don’t like, you’re likely to be sued. (Chief examples of this...

I have three confessions to make, dear blog readers, about my Visual Language assignment. The first is that the night before it was assigned, I essentially finished it. I wasn’t aware it would be assigned the next day; I just thought that I should make myself business cards. The second...

New fandoms are different spaces from older fandoms. Customs have yet to be codified; big name fans have yet to become prominent. In-jokes and norms take time to become established. This week in fandom, Patrick and I took a look at the fandom for Westworld to analyze the techniques to...

Since I had already worked with the piezo speaker last week, the labs this week for physical computing were a breeze. What was a little tougher was thinking of another creative application. Should I work with the piezo again? Should I just fix up my previous project? Instead, I decided...

What colours are predominant in our lives? If I close my eyes and imagine a scene from my life, the colours that are prominent are very different from the ones that I see on a day to day basis. But I haven’t lived in New York for very long; once...