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Workshop 2

For workshop 2 we got the assignment to work with someone else's project. We got the project to translate "sound" to water waves. We built a box where you could put in a "cap" of water and the vibration of the water will be shown in this cap. We also tried to use very light fabric to create this vibration but this didn't work so we came with the solution to use a small cap because a big capacity of water didn't work with the capacity of the speakers. We experimented with music and with calling someone and using emotions in our voices.

Imaginary Radio

I worked with Jerry Estié on this assignment. We started out discussing radio and really wanted to something with transferring information in another way. For inspiration we decided to look into the past instead of into the future and looked up a database of sci-fi devices in books from the 40s to the 70s. We used the site Technovelgy for this. We found a project that was talking about which was about animated symbols to help those who haven't bothered to learn to read in a multimedia age. (From The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson. Published by Bantam Books in 1995) We decided to take this what once was a sciencefiction project to this new era. Now a days when you scroll to facebook, newspapers, newspapers on the web, we mainly look at images and small headlines, so we don't have to read too much. When I scroll to facebook I don't read anything anymore I just scroll and see pictures with a small text. So we want to critical look at this aspect and use gifs as news headlines. We started out with The New York times and decided to try to do an whole article.