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Magic Windows & Mixed Up Realities

Week 6: Fast Food

March 12, 2020
Continuing the series of mixed reality magic vines, bellow I am presenting the Fast Food vine.
Magic Windows & Mixed Up Realities

Week 5: Weirdness of New York

March 5, 2020
If you live in NYC or have seen a movie or tv show set in NYC, perhaps you have seen large orange and white tubes coming out the sidewalk releasing…
Magic Windows & Mixed Up Realities

Week 4: stARbucks

February 27, 2020
The result of my sketch last week. Inspired by Richard Wiseman’s Quirkology videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNbF006Y5x4) and Zack King’s vines (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZ9lVvvduM)
Magic Windows & Mixed Up Realities

Week 3: Magician at coffeeshop [sketch]

February 20, 2020
I would like to keep exploring ideas on using AR to create magic tricks. I am really excited to use AR to tell interactive stories. For the next week I…
Magic Windows & Mixed Up Realities

Week 2: mARgic

February 13, 2020
I always have troubles documenting my MAGIC works, as I want to treasure the art of magic and not reveal the secrets. However, I would point some issues I have…
Magic Windows & Mixed Up Realities

Week 1: Spacial AR – Dress Me

February 5, 2020
Bellow you can see the augmented reality experience I created using projection mapping with MadMapper. For a personal project I have created a prototype of a robot. At this stage,…
Making Media Making Devices

Raspberry Pi – Simple Math Game

September 21, 2019
As a final assignment for Making Media Making Devices we decided to create a simple math game using Python. We worked with a group of three, including Alizarin Zroob, Tim…
Design Research

Week 1 – Journey Map

September 12, 2019
In the steps bellow I have presented the journey map I follow when it comes to changing the work. In every step I am asking a question which represents my…
Veillance

Facebox

May 13, 2019
Facebook is currently one of the most valuable companies in the world. We may ask, is that value derived? In fact, billions of daily active users pay nothing to access…
Reading and Writing Electronic Text

Is future private?

May 10, 2019
Generative theatrical script about data privacy inspired by Broadway play “Privacy” and the revelations of Edward Snowden. ### Source 1: Play "Privacy" "Privacy" is originally written by James Graham. Created…
Electronic Rituals, Oracles and Fortune Telling

Final Meditation

May 8, 2019
During the Meditation 3 I designed an ritual between performer, audience and Google Home device. I wanted to push that idea further and solve the issues I faced. For the…
Electronic Rituals, Oracles and Fortune Telling

Meditation 5 – Color ESP – custom random function

April 17, 2019
Meditation 4 Assignment: Create a psychic “experiment” with your interpretation of an electronic equivalent of Zener Cards. Document your methodology and your results. (What is it possible to be “psychic”…
Electronic Rituals, Oracles and Fortune Telling

Meditation 4 – Color ESP

April 3, 2019
Meditation 4 Assignment: Create a psychic “experiment” with your interpretation of an electronic equivalent of Zener Cards. Document your methodology and your results. (What is it possible to be “psychic”…
Veillance

Veillance midterm – FaceBox

March 26, 2019
Facebook is currently one of the most valuable companies in the world. We may ask, is that value derived? In fact, billions of daily active users pay nothing to access…
Electronic Rituals, Oracles and Fortune Telling

Meditation 3 – Electronic Tarot Oracle

March 13, 2019
I came across the game Akinator some time ago. During gameplay, it attempts to determine what fictional or real-life "character" the player is thinking of by asking a series of…
Live Image Processing and Performance

LIPP – Kaleidoscope performance 1

February 28, 2019
I titled the performance Kaleidoscope. By definition a kaleidoscope is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces tilted to each other in an angle, so that one or…
Electronic Rituals, Oracles and Fortune Telling

Meditation 2 – Oracle of love

February 27, 2019
The "Oracle of love" will tell you about the attitude of your beloved to you. The "Oracle of love" is ready to answer a lot of questions and predict what…
Live Image Processing and Performance

LIPP – Building a video playback system 2

February 21, 2019
Live Image Processing and Performance

LIPP – Building a video playback system

February 14, 2019
Reading and Writing Electronic Text

RWET Assignment 2 – Poetry Generator

February 14, 2019
This is my first dive into generative poetry. As a beginning, I have decided to move on with my native language and try something in Armenian. So I took a…
Electronic Rituals, Oracles and Fortune Telling

Meditation #1 – 365Learn

February 13, 2019
"365Learn"  is a ritual performed EVERY DAY by individual, where the idea is to NOTE one thing you LEARNED during the day and TYPE it down. This process takes a…
Veillance

Craigslist tracking

February 13, 2019
Nick Tanic and I did a group work on this assignment and came up with a tracking system solution. The source code is available here: https://github.com/mikahayk/veillance-craigslist. Our idea was to gather…
Live Image Processing and Performance

Collecting materials for Max MSP

February 7, 2019
The assignment was to shoot some footage with a cell phone by concentrating more on texture, movement, light, and color. Some videos I collected have been recorded during my daily commute…
Reading and Writing Electronic Text

What is text? Transcribe and/or digitize a text that has never existed in digital form before

February 7, 2019
Assignment: Transcribe and/or digitize a text that has never existed in digital form before. The resulting transcript should be in plain text format (i.e., a .txt file). The goal of…
Veillance

Reflection on Philip Agre, Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy

February 4, 2019
Philip Agre's work Surveillance and Capture got a lot of attention and became a comprehensive guide in the field of surveillance. The essay introduces two models of privacy - surveillance model…
Designing for Live Performance

Final Play “Privacy. The Dating Game”

January 14, 2019
Directed by Hayk Mikayelyan | Kellee Massey | Kai Che Hung Course: "Design for Live Performance" Final Original Play: Privacy by James Graham Date: Dec 11, 2018 Location: 720 Broadway, Tisch…
Designing for Live Performance

Interaction, Stage and Cast for “Privacy”

January 14, 2019
Designing for Live Performance

Concept Sentences and Image Research for “Privacy”

January 14, 2019
Privacy is a 2014 play by James Graham. The play looks at how the personal information we share is used by the government and other corporations, and how this affects…
Designing for Live Performance

“Hedwig and The Angry Inch” Projection

January 13, 2019
Final projection video below
Designing for Live Performance

Final Model & Storyboard for “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”

January 13, 2019
General Stage Set We keep the Hurt Locker set We have elements as following: exploded car, broken wall, road blocks, wooden barriers, shatters and fabric, rotating door. We will work on three…
Designing for Live Performance

Making White Model Box for “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”

January 10, 2019
Our group assignment was to make the white model box of Broadway Belasco Theatre in New York, compile source material, and prepare conceptual approach to projections. We decided to make…
Animation

AR with Unity Vuforia

December 10, 2018
Animation

Queen of Hearts

November 26, 2018
Voice as a Performance Technology

The “voice” of the ghosts

November 15, 2018
Voice as a Performance Technology

7 second performance – Memory game

November 8, 2018
Assignment: Prepare a performance in two parts. Part 1 (53 seconds) will be introduction, instructions, explanation, or preamble; Part 2 (< 7 seconds) will be the “actual” performance. This is…
Voice as a Performance Technology

44 second performance

November 8, 2018
I was assigned to prepare a 44 second performance, containing only five words, in response to Alvin Lucier, I Am Sitting In A Room. The five words may repeat, or…
Animation

Stop Motion Animation – itpman

November 6, 2018
This is the stop motion animation piece for the first week assignment of the Animation course. The character is "itp man" and the story is about his journey to the…
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Protected: PComp Midterm: Cups and Balls [documentation]

October 25, 2018
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PComp Midterm: Cups and Balls

October 24, 2018
Cups and Balls considered to be one of the oldest tricks, which is being used by cheats, gamblers. The first evidences of the trick are dated more than two thousands…
Video and Sound

Video and Sound: Syllabus

October 17, 2018
INFORMATIONWednesdays (weeks 1-7) Instructor: Marina Zurkow (sections 1,3), Matt Romein (section 2) Email: mz46@nyu.edu Residents: Dominic Barrett, Jenny Lim COURSE DESCRIPTIONThis course explores the fundamentals of sound and video. Students…
Video and Sound

iBracadabra: Storyboard

October 17, 2018
To be added soon.
Video and Sound

iBracadabra: Final Cut

October 17, 2018
Screenplay, Performed, and Directed By Beeca Moore Hayk Mikayelyan (self) Jaekook Han Term: ITP Fall 2018 Class: Video and Sound Background music: Operatic 3 by Vibe Mountain, no attribution required, Youtube…
Video and Sound

iBracadabra: Rough Cut

October 9, 2018
Physical Computing

Servo as indicator for RGB LED light

October 3, 2018
Here I used servo as indicator for RGB LED light. LED light brightness is controlled by potentiometer. RGB LED measures 10mm and has 4 leads, one for each color and…
Designing for Live Performance

Group Concepts/Research: Hedwig and The Angry Inch

October 1, 2018
Group members: Xinyue Li, Kexin Lin, Louise Lessel, Hayk Mikayelyan Hedwig is about the search for wholeness. Hedwig is about the search for wholeness through confronting challenging life experiences. Hedwig and…
Physical Computing

Magic LED’s: Arduino input / output

September 26, 2018
To get familiar with Arduino input / output functionality, I came up with an idea of short piece of magic trick using LED lights controlled by Arduino. The idea is…
Video and Sound

Reflection on Soundwalk

September 24, 2018
I truly enjoyed working with sound. I never thought that only sound could bring so much emotions and augmented experience. So, this is kind of discovery I will take away…
Physical Computing

Observation: NYC Traffic Lights

September 24, 2018
Observation task – Pick a piece of interactive technology in public, used by multiple people. Write down your assumptions as to how it’s used, and describe the context in which it’s…
Designing for Live Performance

Response to Hedwig and The Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell

September 23, 2018
Hedwig and The Angry Inch is about striving for harmony. Hedwig and The Angry Inch is an unconventional love story of a girlyboy aiming a balance through a challenging life.…
Physical Computing

Hangman switch

September 19, 2018
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Designing for Live Performance

Cornell box։ Lasso of Truth

September 18, 2018
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Designing for Live Performance

Response to Lasso of Truth by Carson Kreitzer

September 15, 2018
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Video and Sound

Soundwalk – The Other Side of Tisch

September 11, 2018
Link to the project: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1LgksnZmjFxoFlFrFr8-GKos9qRY3CyCP Final version of soundwalk: https://soundcloud.com/madison-r-rosner/theotherside/s-I0mg9
Video and Sound

Response to Central Park soundwalk

September 11, 2018
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Physical Computing

Thoughts on interactivity

September 10, 2018
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Designing for Live Performance

Empty Space by Peter Brook, Visits to a Small Planet by Elanor Fuchs

September 5, 2018
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