On October 25, 2014, the Johns Hopkins University Digital Media Center presented ‘Digital Culture Jamming’, a talk on creative digital media by Baltimore-based art-activist group FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture. Participants learned from organizers Hannah Brancato, Rebecca Nagle and Dan Staples how FORCE uses digital pranks, internet memes and public…
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Frederic Vogt is a PhD student in Astrophysics at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University in Canberra researching the physics of star formation in interacting galaxies located in compact groups via optical integral field spectroscopy. Frederic spent Sept. 2013 – June 2014 at…
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Electric skateboards are not uncommon, and hand based throttle systems make up the majority of eboards on the market. While some eboards have an acceleration switch on the board that is activated by stepping on it, the weight-difference-sensing eboard design featured here offers advantages over the typical foot-actuated design. By…
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Alvin Onyewuenyi (Public Health ’14) is a frequent user of the DMC audio studio, and our resident expert when it comes to audio gear and music production. In this video, Alvin shares some thoughts about his time at the DMC and how he develops his beat-making and rapping alongside the…
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Yasmine “Yaz” Holloway, Class of 2014, is a recent Film and Media Studies graduate and a very familiar face at the DMC. Skilled in a variety of media, Yasmine has completed projects involving video, studio drawing, cartooning, and graphic design. Her projects often leap between “analog” and “digital” — bringing…
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Alongside all of her academic work, JHU student Jessica Noviello created a feature length documentary called Behind the Bones: The Status of Modern Paleontology Research in the United States. Watch the full movie here. Jessica tells more about the project: “It was filmed using a Sony Handycam HDR CX290 and…
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On Fri Apr 18, 2014, electronic artist and musician Jesse Stiles transformed Mattin Center’s Jones 101 room into a high-tech hall of mirrors with is interactive video and sound installation entitled Automatic Cloudbuster Room, presented by the JHU Digital Media Center. Stiles designed and conceived of Automatic Cloudbuster Room specifically…
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The DMC teamed up with the Office of the Dean of Student Life to communicate and promote the values that students learn through co-curricular activities at JHU. Discovery, Exploration, Curiosity, Exercise, Healthy Eating, Gaining Perspective, Community Engagement, Reciprocal Learning, Helping Others, and Having Fun are core values that all of…
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Fall of 2013, Kelly Zona from Baltimore Fab Lab joined for a series of hands-on do it your self electronic maker workshops! We made floatable led-lit origami, hip wearable electronics, light-up greeting cards, and musical color sensors! In December we made light-up snowflake pins at the Lighting of the Quads!
The goal of this project is to create an automated cooking machine capable of preparing user-specified recipes. The design is a counter-top machine to tackle the most basic (yet common) cooking tasks. The user selects the recipe, prepares the ingredients, fills individual dispensing compartments, and presses the start button. The…
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