IMC EXPO

Todd Holoubeck, Daniel Shiffman, Dimitri Negroponte, Meghan Trainor, & Jeff Gray

The Wave Machine
The Wave Machine is an experiment in taking an artificial mechanization of a real phenomenon and reproducing it in digital form. In today's world we are confronted with the unreal, primary as digital media. Through the media we are forced to accept the "essence" of what we would like to have. This project takes this idea to the test by reproducing the much loved "wave machine" as a tilting light grid. We are offering the essence of early nineties kitch as a series of ones and zeros. Inherent in this project, which uses the emphemeral and realitivly abstract medium of computer programming, we have sought to focus as much on the physical elements of the digital object. The wave machine is a mechanical abstraction of water. To create a digital form of this natural event implies a more ephemeral experience. However we have focused as much attention on the physical aspects ofcreating a digital experience as we have to the programming elements. Handcrafting our circuit boards, etching designs, words, and parts of the programming language we are using itself onto the boards, is in opposition to both the ephemeral and mass-produced elements of contemporary digital experiences.
Artist Bios
Todd Holoubeck Todd Holoubek comes from a background of construction, retailing, the theater arts writing, performing and producing for television, new media, design, and programming. His research looks at the bridge between humans and technology, his observations are in the form of physical and screen based works. He holds a B.F.A. and an M.P.S from New York University. He is currently a Researcher and adjunct professor of communications for the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. www.ToddHoloubek.com
Dimitri Negroponte Dimitri Negroponte, educational background is in industrial design with a BA from UCLA and MA from Domus Academy in Milan Italy. 35 years of age, most of his life has been spent traveling and introducing technology in areas of the world where it rarely reaches. Working is far reaching corners of the world, he has been able to open and visualized from different points of view. He has spent the past few years in rural India and Cambodia teaching children about technology. While travel has been a constrain so has technology, growing up around technology has made it possible for him to visualize and image in an infomatic way. Growing up around the MIT Media Lab and it's predecessor the Architecture Machine group, dimitri has witnessed the development of the human computer interaction. http://dimitri.negroponte.com/
Meghan Trainor Meghan Trainor moved to New York in 2002 following years exhibiting in and curating visual art shows in Seattle, Washington. Her previous work explored our emotional responses to the themes of history, genetics and time travel using naive and nostalgic imagery. One of her first projects in New York involved curating a show of Seattle-based artists at a gallery in Brooklyn called "Remote: Emerging Artists of the Pacific Northwest" As a graduate student at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program she is currently exploring the potentials of using networks, databases, cell phones, and RFID, particularly to create interactive public art.
Jeff Gray Jeff Gray is currently exploring the intersection of design, music, and art while attending the Interactive Telecommuncations Program at New York University. He seeks the overlapping of concepts in these mediums where their collision creates something new, entertaining, thought-provoking, and/or irreverent. His previous work has been focused primarily around music visualization and pedagogical applications, as well as photography exploring light as paint captured on an ephemeral moving canvas.
http://dimitri.negroponte.com/blog/ebola/