After mulling over it for a few weeks, I am still obsessed w/cassette tapes. Here is fun link on cassette tape culture. It isn’t really related to something I want to do for this project, but I thought it was kind of cool. So I finally decided on combining my obsession with cassette tapes with …
December 20, 2011 archive
Dec 20 2011
Dead Tech. Second Attempt After the Untimely Passing of my Apple Remote
So in my last post for this project, I left off with the intentions of turning one of my old retro controllers into an Apple remote. UPDATE. Terese’s Apple Remote Found Slain By Roommate in Reckless Movement of Furniture and Outright Clumsiness. Now that my poor remote is no more, and it is not within …
Dec 20 2011
Lost & Found Tech. Analog Tape Playing Guitar (project 3) Final Documentation
For my third project, I also worked alone. In this project was inspired by the genius of Nam June Paik and (then later) the Signal to Noise installation. In my rendition, as I continued with my cassette tape obsession, I tried to create an Analog Tape Playing Guitar. For my materials, I had (again) cassette …
Dec 20 2011
Dead Tech (project 2). Final Documentation
For the second project, Dead Tech, I worked alone. After going through various phases with this assignment, this is my final result, and where my obsession with cassette tapes began. From destroyed Apple remote, (now) seemingly useless retro controllers, and budget constraints, I restarted back to the radio that I was so in love with I …
Dec 20 2011
Dead Tech. Finds: Mini Stereo (Boom) & Retro Controllers
So for the second project (dead tech), I found a few cool items: an old radio and two retro controllers. I am not sure how these different items would function together, and since I am not electronically savvy this became a real concern for me. Through internet research I was able to find …
Dec 20 2011
Final Documentation
Anti-GPS 1 Anti-GPS 2 Above are images from my final project concerning lost and found tech. It is an Anti-GPS designed to get you lost. In an environment where we rely upon technology to get us to where we are going as quickly as possible we often are not aware of our surroundings and lose …