Augmented Reality mobile app developed for the launch event of the new shoe line "009" by New Balance.

A booth with three shoe stands displaying an image of the 009 shoe imprint were placed at a booth during the New Balance 009 launch event. Using our mobile app and smartphones, guests could see a 3D model of the shoe projected onto the imprint of the shoe.

Guests could take the AR experience home with them in the form
of a 4”x4” coaster. The AR app could be downloaded by following a download link printed on the coaster. 

Guests had the ability to change the color of the shoe from
within the app, zoom in on the shoe to see it in finer
detail, and purchase the model from within the app.

Project made in in collaboration with Dylan Filingeri and Neighborhood Watch.

Technology: Unity 3D + Vuforia, 3D scanning, Maya

WORK IN PROGRESS

A web-based VR experience exploring the differences between human and animal vision by providing an artistic interpretation of how the world might appear to one of four animals: a bee, a dog, a bat, and a rattlesnake, as well as how the visual perception of each animal enhances their ability to find food or detect their predator or prey.

Technology: JavaScript/Three.js, Maya, Clara.io, 360 video, Google Cardboard

DILATION is a study of animation techniques of motion capture through dance. The project explores the differences of elapsed time through a sequence of eloquent dance solos and duets - it follows the idea of space-time relativity where there are no absolute positions in time and space. A non-linear journey demonstrates how the body constructs and affects the space and how the perception of movement changes over time. The emotion will intensify from slow conscious sections to rapid explorations until eventual regression.

Project created to be displayed at the IAC Building in New York. The custom made screens measures 11520px x 980px. 

Software: UE4, OptiTrack + Motive, MakeHuman, MotionBuilder, Maya, After Effects, Premiere

Produced in collaboration with Chang Liu. Music by De Ke - "CHAOS".  Dance solos performed by Michaela Rae Mann and Berit Ahlgren.  

DILATION on Vimeo

Shy Art Show is a proposal for an art exhibition displaying a collection of ‘shy’ objects that actively avoid being looked at. The goal of the exhibition is to force the viewer to become aware of their process of experiencing the artwork and take time to appreciate the objects on display without the distraction of mobile phones and other electronic devices.

Interactive plan of the exhibition space made in Unreal Engine 4. 

nth wall is a multimedia performance exploring the intersection of the physical world and virtual reality. The project is a result of a collaboration between Joanna Wrzaszczyk, Nicholas Bratton, Zhen Liu, and Dylan Filingeri.

Software: UE4, OptiTrack + Motive, MotionBuilder, Oculus Rift
Presented in Bodies in Motion Magnet Show 

CONCEPT

We explore the relationship between:
VR immersee and virtual reality.
VR immersee and augmented reality.
VR immersee and people in real world (VR Audiences).

We ask: How flexible is the boundary between digital and physical world?
We see: How glimpses of the real, the human, influence the way we use, modulate, and think about digital space.
We investigate: The observer effect.
We reconsider: The fourth wall. Who is performing? Who is observing? 

New technologies such as Oculus and augmented reality mobile apps have forced us to confront the digital and the physical -- to distinguish between the online and the offline. These two worlds often appear separate; the digital world is ‘virtual’ and the physical world is ‘real’. Through this project we try to merge the material reality with digital information and blur the boundaries between these two worlds.

The finished product is a platform for the exploration of the permeable borders between virtual and real. It is a virtual reality world that is set in a real space and allows for real life interactions with objects and people, enabling the user to physically cross from one world to the other. We use mixed-reality boundaries to understand and disrupt human perception and trigger new ways of making sense out of the world around.

Project made in Unreal Engine 4. Motion capture recorded with OptiTrack and Motive.

Project inspired by Delauney trianulation algorithm. The script uses Delauney Triangulation algorithm and Voronoi diagram to analyze photographs and convert them into triangulated images. Newly created images are then edited in Adobe Photoshop.

Code written in Processing language using open source toxiclibs and mesh libraries.

3D models of real objects captured with Asus Xtion and Skanect. Edited in Maya and Unreal Engine 4.

A stop-motion animation commercial created for Cointreau Rickey, produced by Vogue Studio. 

Music by Guillaume Gesquiere.

Original photographs by Martyn Thompson.

Vogue Studio, Cointreau, 2014

The project is an effect of a collaboration between Joanna Wrzaszczyk and Ross Goodwin. The lamp visualizes the traveling salesman problem between a set of 3D printed node-cities modeled in Rhinoceros software. City-nodes are designed based on descriptions of chosen cities from Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities.

The Traveler's Lamp is a three-dimensional set of vertices enclosed in an engraved laser cut Plexiglas form with a custom made wooden stand. The vertices are connected with a thin fishing line to LEDs, that visualize a computer algorithm (running on Raspberry Pi) approximating the traveling salesman problem in real time between the node-cities.

See documentation video here.

A series of videos created for the Fashion Week at The Bellevue Collection in 2013 and 2014, produced by Vogue Studio.

The Bellevue Collection collaborated with Vogue magazine to present Front Row Fashion, a runway show designed and executed by Vogue magazine with fashions from The Bellevue Collection.

All videos are 5760px x 1080px, designed to be displayed on three 1920px x 1080px screens located behind the catwalk. Each video corresponds to one of the 7 trends for Fall 2013 and Fall 2014.

Moodboards by Kelsey Reifler.

Vogue Studio, Bellevue September 2013 & 2014

Today we upload millions of photographs a day, and each time we snap a picture we outsource to it a part of our memory. This project is an examination of memories hidden behind my personal photographs, and how they alter and augment over time.

I created a series of photo collages using images from my Instagram, treating each image as an instance of a memory. I looked behind the purely visual information of the image and, by inserting the actual written memories into the text based data of the photographs, I created more aggregated representations of these memories.

The project was inspired by the self-categorization theory, which focuses on a basic distinction between personal and social identity. It elucidates how self-categorization varies with the social context and argues that self-categorizing is inherently variable, fluid, and context dependent. 

A series of collages portraying busy and colorful home interiors full of discordant fabrics and wallpapers and kitschy accessories.  

The furniture and food items, taken from magazine photographs, food journals and other printed sources, are in a mix of scale, styles and mediums. They are collaged onto the room renditions; then the whole is photographed.

Project inspired by Laurie Simmons' collage series The Instant Decorator (2001-2004) and food and furniture advertisements from original LIFE magazines.

#nofilter, or how to find magical in the mundane is a video and photography installation that examines the differences between using filters as an image embellishments and as a function of narrative storytelling.

Unlike memory, photographs are simply a record of an event that has occurred at a certain time in a certain place. Instead of altering the picture after taking it using Instagram's digital filter I looked at reality trough a lens of my camera and a layer of a colorful Plexiglas thus changing the way I see the reality in front of me while taking my picture. 

#nofilter, or how to find magical in the mundane is part of my B.F.A thesis at SUNY College at Purchase. 

Vine is a structure made out of fractals and built in Processing. The goal of the project was to create a digital plant that would respond to the presence of the user. I used a projector to project the branch on a flat screen and Kinect 1414 to track viewers and send the information indicating the proximity of a viewer to the digital projection back to the Processing IDE. 

The growth of the branch depends on the presence of the user and the number of people interacting with the branch. The type of interaction from the user’s perspective is more of a passive one as the user does not need to be aware of his/her own impact on the branch’s behavior. The growth of my branch is triggered by the people passing by in front of the Kinect. I used a timer to time the growth triggered by each user. The bigger the branch gets the slower it grows.

Video diary shot for Tommy Dunn at Ford Models, New York. 

Collaboration with Andrew Tyson and Ford Models.

@2014

Mindful Lamp is a prototype of a 3D printed smart health appliance that can interpret user's emotion by accessing their social media accounts and analyzing the types of sentiments in their feeds. Project developed in collaboration with Jedy Chen, Martin Romero, and Stream Gao.

For most of the current smart health/health monitoring devices service, there is an unbalance between data input+analysis module and feedback module. That is to say, they focus on the solutions of how to get information and transform to readable data to customers, while lacking in what they can do with these readable data. Mindful Lamp server automatically collects emotion types from the user's social media and calculates the average 'sentiment' score (sentiment analysis, image recognition to get emotion values). The lamp reacts to the collected data by changing its color and shape in order to help the user meditate and improve his/her mental well being.

The ideal way to collect user's emotions is user-passive, unconscious, with the minimum user input. Based on these rules, we decide to use public feeds in social account and speech/tone analysis. There is also a way for user to input their mood directly. The lamp is using an Alchemy API to analyze emotions. 

Arduino Yun serves as the general Mindful Lamp controller, controlling its wireless module (WiFi), lighting module, and movement module. The motion of the lamp is controlled by a combination of one big gear and five small gears, which are powered by a step motor. 

Short experimental film made with a use of a microscope.

Made in collaboration with Adrianna Zielinska.

Animation hand-painted directly on a clear 16 mm film combined with a stop motion animation. A present for my Mom. @ 2012

Music by The Beatles, From Me to You 

A series of videos created with a home-built video synthesizer made from an old VHS player. The synthesizer produces colorful oscilloscope-style patterns on a television by displaying the waveform of the audio input.

Part of a larger exhibition titled For Miss M. presented at SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY. @2012

Project made in collaboration with Nicholas Sveikauskas.

Stop-motion video animation inspired by the opening scene of Le Mepris (Contempt) by Jean-Luc Godard. 

Project made in collaboration with Sessa Englund. 

Ants & Firefly is an interactive projection installation build in Processing and Arduino. Project made in collaboration with Luke Kao. 

Displayed on a 16x9 flat screen, the projection is controlled by the movement of the viewer and their proximity to the screen. The screen has a built in motion and distance sensors, which are connected to Arduino Micro Controller that communicates with Processing.

The ants are following the x and y position of the firefly, which moves randomly around the screen. The movement of the ants is also slightly randomized by the use of the random walker algorithm.

When the viewer approaches the screen ants scatter and move fast off the screen as if they were running away. If the viewer walks away from the screen or stays close but remains still the ants regroup and continue following the firefly. 

Mean Meal is an interactive video built with Treehouse by Interlude . 

CLICK! on buttons embedded in the video and choose your own narrative!

Project developed with Brett Stiller and Nikolaj Slot Petersen.

See Mean Meal HERE.

A series of photographs inspired by the works of Cindy Sherman, taken with the 4x5 view camera.

@2010