Projects from the Hack Arts Lab, University of Chicago

Woodcut Printmaking Using the Laser

Here is another group project for Professor Jason Salavon’s class, Data and Algorithm in Art (ARTV 22502). Students Edouard Bordeau Brooks, Kyle McCornack, and Annie Asai teamed up to create a serial progression of laser-etched geometric designs in plywood. These designs were then printed onto paper using a traditional woodcut process. Lastly, the resulting images…

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Arduino-based Sound Installation

For professor Jason Salavon’s DoVA course Data and Algorithm in Art (ARTV 22502), students Gabrielle Bernard, Anthony Crespo, and Jonathan Kyl teamed up to create an arduino-based sound project. The interactive sound installation uses an arduino, laser, and optical sensor to trigger audio clips in response to audience movements. Here is a video of the…

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The Cult of ASDF

The Cult of ASDF is an art project by DoVA MFA Ben Nicholson. It contains several elements, including game pieces created on the Makerbot 3D printer at HAL. Nicholson created “a large pyramid and set of small pyramids that read “asdf” around the outside; large piece was a model for a monument (designed by “The…

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