Somethings About Your Fingerprint

The human fingerprint is one of the most unique physical attributes we have. What if this unique identification also could serve as a gateway to what we truly are as humans beings as we interact and inhabit the earth? There is definitely something to consider about our fingerprint.

Experimenting with an app idea.

Breathe of the City and the Body

The Breathe App allows the user to log the amount of pollutant that they are breathing in a particular city. This not only logs your location, but it logs the time and date to let the user know the peak seasons or time that air contamination is lower or higher. The user can also compare the amounts of impurities in their city to a friend in a different city. With the GPS abilities, the user is able to see what parts of the city that are more densely polluted. With this tool, we the public, can learn about how the air quality affects everything in your body. 

Breathe also teaches the user about air contamination and how we can slow the rate of global warming. This tool is an integrated way the user can learn about the causes of pollution, how to stop the quality of the air from getting worse, and learn about the little everyday things that can be done to help the environment for the short run and long run. We all live on this great Earth and we all need to do our part to keep this planet clean and healthy for the future. 

Water Drawings of Invisible Things

I have come across two projects that use water as a medium for visualizing what is invisible: in this case, soundwaves and brainwaves. In the work of Nigel Stanford, Cymatics [the study of visible sound] auditory compositions are translated into visual geometric patterns moving in water. In Lisa Park's project, Eunioa [beautiful thinking], her brainwaves are translated into sound vibrations also reverberating as water patterns, changing and moving as her thoughts transform. Her project is of particular interest in the topic of CiTy SCAN [the intricate relationship between the human body and the city body]. To bring the scale of the city to this, I recall Siegfried Kracauer as he described the memory of the first film that he saw; "What thrilled me so deeply was an ordinary suburban street. Filled with lights and shadows, which transfigured it. Several trees stood about and there was in the foreground a puddle reflecting invisible house facades and a piece of sky. Then a breeze moved the shadows, and the facades with the sky below began to waver."

top image: still from Lisa Park's video Eunioa
bottom image: still from Nigel Stanford's video Cymatics

Familyography

Familyography

Visualizing a Portrait of Tactile, Chromatic and Audible Definitions

Abstract

While physical geographies and personal differences dictate our daily schedules, truly we are all running together, experiencing life in parallel.  A family portrait is visualized in three perceptions to extend the efforts of the traditional still-photography, family portrait.  These perceptions are crafted from the physiological arousal of individual family members throughout their daily routines.  Activity and emotion are combined with the visualizations of a family, created through a topographic surface (a tactile experience), a field of color (a two dimensional reading), and a composition of sound (an engaging, space activating interaction).  This is our experience, a familyography, visualized through an emotivescape, chromascape, and phonoscape (or, that of topography, color, and sound).

obeCITY: a study of obesity in the human and city body

Class Walk: Clemson University

Class Walk around Clemson Campus from Dan Hutcherson on Vimeo.

Class Walk: Lee Hall

Class Walk through Lee Hall from Dan Hutcherson on Vimeo.