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Hello my name is Alex Barrera I am a Visual Arts major studying the craft of digital video and film. I enjoy making films that explore things that have yet to be seen. I am interested in taking the trivial and unimportant and shedding new light on whatever topic it might be. I create documentaries, short films, as well as video installations for art galleries. I believe that digital video is at the head of the art world and that it is a very refreshing medium to work with. I am interested in this class because I believe it will help me explore the backgrounds of the technology that I use everyday. I also believe that these sort of newer technologies are very essential for creating art in this day and age.

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Proposal for Midterm Project: Switches

My proposal is to create a sort of air cooling shoe that uses a combination of two switches to activate a fan that cools your feet ecery time you step. I will have a normally open switch that when pressed willturn off the circuit. Since your heel will be pressed down the fan will be off. When u lift your heel off the switch "aka a step" the fan will turn on creating a breeze to your toes. Then when your step finishes back to your heel the fan will be off. It will also use a toggle switch to keep the contraption off when your shoe is not on. Here is a diagram to show more detail.

Prposal for Final: Arduino

I have already spoken to Steph about my proposal and am well on my way to completing it but here is a qwuick rundown fro the site anyways. I am going to create a installation reaction timing piece. It is kind of hard to explain but in essence it will baically create a physical manifestation of art in response to the inputs it recieves. I will use a code that involves the user holding a button, then when the piece tells the user to release (via light or something) the user will have to release the button as quick;y as possible. This in turn will generate a number, High or low and the output will be the spraying of paint or something similiar on to a canvas depending on how quickly you released. The plan is to hopefully generate different art pieces based on reaction times of your own brain. It will be a physical manifestation of your reaction time turned into art. The details on the spraying paint are still in the air, as I am still working on the code and the reaction timer. I will try to create a diagram today after I head to the electronic place to brainstrom ways to make paint spray.