Joe Reinsel Assistant Professor of Interactive Art

Student Projects from Courses Taught from 2006-2013

Course Taught- ART 630 - University of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

Light Emitting Studies, 2006- Bonnie Crawford-Cotula Electrical circuits, conductive thread, paper, discarded plastic packaging, rubber These works primarily consist of light and electricity. The electronic components used to control the electricity are free form soldered as prominent elements in sculptural composition. In addition, the circuitry controls the timing of the light, while rubber, conductive thread, consumer packaging and paper alter the quality of that light. I refer to the works in this series as studies in that they engender analysis through their production. They are not studies in the sense that they are a means to a more complete work of art, nor does their functionality as studies cease when they are completed. Both the act of making and the act of viewing them links experimentation with experience to elicit illumination.

Joe Reinsel Assistant Professor of Interactive Art

Student Projects from Courses Taught from 2006-2013

Course Taught- ART 630 - University of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD Poke- Chad Eby - is a performance of anatomical anxiety. The organelles of a glowing, gelatinous mass are skewered with long needles while the performers scribbling on a tablet is simultaneously translated into a menacing buzz and pulsing bands of projected light. Anatomical drawings icker and fade, and each stab of the needle produces a strangled cry until a nal trust and wail bring silence and darkness. Poke uses Jean-Michel Courtiers Scanned Synthesis and Wacom tablet objects as well as conductive gelatin, LEDs, and a hacked keyboard.

Joe Reinsel Assistant Professor of Interactive Art

Student Projects from Courses Taught from 2006-2013

Course Taught- ART 630 - University of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD Geoff Bell- This work represents a humorous critique of the interaction between the viewer and the work of art. A camera positioned in a box records the viewer as they peer inside. The recording is delayed 6 seconds and and is projected on the lower third section of the construction near by. A max patch is used to mangle up a video recording of Leonard Maltin, the lm critic. Behind the video image is an illuminated cinematic picture from The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock. The viewer ultimately negotiates between the role of the critic and the performer.

Joe Reinsel Assistant Professor of Interactive Art

Graduate Thesis Committee member The Mischief of Created Things
Aaron Oldenberg, MFA 2007

The purpose of this project is to create an interactive environmental narrative dealing with new images of West Africa and philosophies of game design. The content is based on my two years as a development worker in Mali. The imagery is intended to inspire players to nd the magic in the mundane and references a hybrid of traditional Malian and Western culture overlapping between magic and technology. My process involved creation of a three-dimensional environment in Flash, which the player can explore non-linearly. Within the environment are characters, with whom players can converse; the conversations are based on a uid navigation system similar to the environments exterior navigation. Stories are based on my diary entries and letters home, and were chosen for their personal, surprising, and multi-layered nature. Rather than use traditional game design methods, I chose to start with narrative and imagery and create the game structure from them. During play, the user discovers narratives that build on one another throughout the course of the experience. The player uses these to form a meaningful picture of the environment as a whole. The order of events changes each players interpretation, since the experience of certain events directly inuences the sequence of subsequent events. The surprising and non-sequitur nature of the narrative makes the game characters and environment seem more real.