David Resnick music, movement, visuals, vibrations, hardware, code

I presented my project, Undulating Flux, at Dorkbot SoCal at Machine Project in Los Angeles on Saturday October 16, 2010.  Dorkbot is a gathering of “people doing strange things with electricity”.  Many thanks to Garnet Hertz and Thomas Edwards for inviting me to speak–it was a real honor!  This meeting was special because it took place on the high seas of the Sea Nymph.  I am grateful for the engaged audience–we had some nice discussion about potential applications for my vibrotactile system and there were inquisitive questions about flow states and multimodal interaction.  As my project is experiential, I gave demos with three audience members.  It’s always fun to see peoples’ first reaction to feeling the vibrations because you can’t really tell what will happen just from looking at it.  Thanks to Loren Barton for videotaping.

Ariana Morin wrote an article about me and my vibrotactile work for her fashionably geek blog in Coast Magazine.  The article is quite in-depth, covering my early experiences with synaesthesia (as well as dancing to Thriller), experience as a VJ, and ideas about transduction.

I was photographed by documentary photographer Yocheved Amrami in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn last week. Amrami’s work concerns “identity” and the interplay between the individual and the collective, presence and absence, and temporal and permanent.

On July 2, 2010 I was interviewed for Coast Magazine, a West Coast monthly lifestyle mag, about my project Undulating Flux.  The article should be coming out in a couple weeks, which I will definitely post here.

I was reading Gizmodo before bed tonight and I came across this title of a post “Tickling A Massage Chair With Twirling Wiimotes”.  I thought to myself, “Oh great, someone else is doing the same thing as me.  I better check it out.”  Lo and behold, it was me!  I got a good laugh out of that.  And a nice article on Gizmodo.

A very important piece of my project is the bit of code that allows the Max programming environment to communicate with the Arduino microcontroller.  That code is a Max package called Maxuino.  The current lead developer, Chris Coleman, featured UF on the Maxuino website.  Chris will also use UF as an example in his upcoming presentation at the Electronic Language International Festival in Brazil.

No not the spying NSA, but the National Stuttering Association, of which I am currently a member of the Orange County Chapter.  I fearfully embarked on the task of recording the voiceover for the UF documentation video and somehow managed not to stutter once.  I think it was the “no stuttering while acting” phenomenon.  Regardless, I was pretty proud, and so were my friends at the NSA.

The website Go Nintendo, dedicated to all things Nintendo, featured Undulating Flux on May 28, 2010.

PCB Heaven is a Hacks ‘N Mods site dedicated to creative electronics.  Undulating Flux was featured on the site on May 31, 2010 after the editor saw the video on Youtube.

On May 28 Undulating Flux, my first-year project in the Arts Computation Engineering program at UC Irvine, was featured on the world-famous tech blog Engadget.  It was also the 16th post ever on the brand new alt.engadget.