Tim Szetela is currently is a graduate student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He has studied film and animation at Harvard University and at Sweden’s Konstfack University of Arts and Design. He likes to explore language and geography and to combine sound and image.
For the Thursday project, I wanted to map the walk from my apartment to school. Yesterday I had mapped the floor at school with ground textures; with today’s project, I wanted to continue to try other approaches to mapping. So this morning, I recorded the audio of my entire trip to school and took about 100 photographs along the way. Using Flash I created two side by side interfaces to experience and examine this media. A photo still of the interface is below. A link to the Flash file is also below (it may take a little time to load). Mouse over the small photos to navigate the images. And click on the circles if you want to advance the audio. The square represents me moving in real time.
2 comments | August 1st, 2008
I’ve spent so much time here at ITP (especially this week) that I’ve wondered how it has changed through the years. With the help of people that have seen some of the construction and alterations made to the fourth floor, I gathered floor plans from the last ten years. For the Wednesday project, using Flash, I redrew them all and created an interactive floor plan so that people could see how the interior space has changed (through demolished and rebuilt walls and continued reassignment of various spaces). I also wanted to look at the floor plan a bit differently, so I created a map of the actual floor (the carpet, tiles, wood). The link to Floor Plan is below (click on the wood square to see the floor textures). The image below is of Floor Plan on a monitor near ITP’s equipment room (visible on the map).
4 comments | July 31st, 2008
As I mentioned in my last post, I had gotten a lot of stuff on my trip to Japan. I particularly liked this small book I got that is filled with thousands of family crests from Japan. The crests are each really great highly-designed symbols. For a while I have wanted to animate these, to show many of them at once and to show the visual differences between each of them. So for the Tuesday project, I captured the images of a couple hundred of these, aligned and cleaned up the photos, and then animated them as a series. Also, I wanted to project them in a space to give them more presence and texture. A still of the projection is below. A link to the video of the various projections is also below.
3 comments | July 30th, 2008
I visited Japan two years ago and collected a lot of stuff. At an arcade in Hiroshima, I played a claw machine over and over again, winning many small toys (pictured below). I had wanted to do some sort of project with them for a while. The toys are overly cute, and the game was overly addictive. A page of animated gifs seemed to be the appropriate combination of these two characteristics. I had also recorded audio on the trip to Japan, including the music that played in the arcade with the claw machine. I used this music and animated the toys to create my Monday project. Click on the link below to visit it (Firefox works best).
1 comment | July 29th, 2008
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