Amanda Tasse

Archive 2008-2011

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Sympathetic Mirror

I networked heart-rate sensors to visualize multiple heart-rates simultaneously in a simple processing application.
MEML Comics

The Mobile & Environmental Media Lab worked with illustrator, Bryant Johnson, to develop a series of Design Fiction comics for a Mini Cooper ambient storytelling project.

VR Shoulder Exercise Game

The USC Creative Media & Behavioral Health Center is developing Virtual Reality Shoulder Exercise game prototypes for players with spinal cord injury.
Portals

I created a stereo3D Animated building projection for the Rhythms + Visions: Expanded + Live Event at USC in April 2011.
Poddles

Poddles is a rapid prototype that Lauren Fenton, Meryl Alper, Harsh Vathsangam, and I designed for the 2011 Annenberg Symposium at USC.
Encircling With Hope

In connection with “108″, I created a series of related sand-rose sculptures, a bouquet of thorny roses and red-dyed petals.

108

I created a mandala of 108 roses out of a homemade beach-sand-based clay as a ritual action to contemplate heartbreak.
PUCK Data Trees

3D Print Visualizations for Jen Stein’s iMAP Dissertation Project, PUCK, as part of the USC MEML, Mobile & Environmental Media Lab.
iMAP 3D Print

Inspired by my 3D Data Viz experiments, I designed and printed a ridiculous trophy for the first crop of iMAP graduates, iMAP 1.
3D Printing for Stop-Motion

For my stop-motion animation film, The Reality Clock, I experimented with creating props using 3D printing.

The Reality Clock

Excerpt. Student Academy Award Winning s3D Stop-Motion, Time-Lapse, & Live Action, 2011. For more info, see the film’s website here