Retina Roulette (Research Remix)

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Research Remix (a project organized by the Digital Media Center at Johns Hopkins University) is “a series of events designed to bring together artists and designers with scientific researchers in order to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and develop compelling new projects.”

This project was completed in collaboration with Kiara Eldred at Johnston and Hattar Labs, Johns Hopkins University (Robert J. Johnston Jr., P.I.) and based upon data derived from her research into “Stochastic Human Opsin Choice.”

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Sole Connection: A Mile in Another’s Shoes

Originally titled “A Mile in Another’s Shoes”, this project has been rebranded as “Sole Connections” and was relaunched on 6/1/2014

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A Mile in Another's Shoes

“You won’t know a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes.”  We spend so much of our time not paying attention to each other. When we take the time to share with each other and appreciate the subtleties, we become closer as a community, as a world.

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Mirror Minus

via Kimberly Murphy (instragram: _kimmis_) "enjoying a little mother/daughter time at the @a2artcenter. (mirror minus, steven silberg)"

(via Kimberly Murphy—instragram:_kimmis_) “enjoying a little mother/daughter time at the @a2artcenter.”

“Mirror Minus” is an interactive installation that continues within my experimental process of Reductive Video. The body of work entitled “Reductive Video” borrows the choice to depict changes in movement (either as individual frames or wholly contained in a single image) and applies it to the technical rendering of images. Using custom software written in Max/MSP/Jitter, video is broken down to reveal only the pixels that change from frame to frame, no longer implying form, but instead the shape of what has changed from the previous frame.

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Pixel-Lapse Prints

sunrise, 3 December 2006 1024 x 768 @ 100 px./sec 2 hr, 11 min, 15 sec

sunrise
3 December 2006

1024 x 768 @ 100 px./sec
2 hr, 11 min, 15 sec

“Pixel lapse” photography is the process of creating an image one pixel at a time. Beginning in the upper left corner, pixels are captured sequentially at a set rate until the entire image is formed.

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