Political Capital:
This project would explore the way the American political system has been corrupted by money. I would take images of major elected officials and and systematically overlay the image of a hundred dollar bill over the individual. The way I envision this working is the viewer will start off seeing the image of some significant political figure and as time progresses the pixels will being to change, slowly at first, but as the number of changes increases the speed at which they occur also increases. I am still undecided as to the best way to have the changes occur, whether it be very ordered, completely random, or done in a style similar to the computer virus image manipulation.
TARP:
This project would explore the social injustice associated with the 2008 Trouble Asset Relief Program (TARP). I would like to project the corporate offices of the major banks associated with this program in interactive stereoscopic 3D. The buildings would have the scrolling down the sides the CEO's names and their pay each year since 2008, additionally on another side of the building would be the names and mortgage amount of families who have had their homes foreclosed on by said bank. The user would be able to either move around the buildings or move the buildings and be able to scroll up and down in the lists.
The Real Game of Life:
This project would take John Conway's Game of Life and attempt to move beyond the simple 0 1 notion of life it presents. Instead I would incorporate many of the accepted theories in Evolutionary Biology. Examples of which would be both drift and natural selection. This system would hopefully be able to model population based changes such as fixation. In the end the system should be seeded with a couple of "species" and the end result could see the rise of entirely new "species" that were not initially seeded as well as the absorption and extinction of progenitor "species".
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