Sherilyn Fernandes Audio self portrait

For my object i used my sewing binder, which has all my works and plans from the past years. The front of the binder is covered with different types of fabrics,buttons and other stuff you can find in a sewing kit. The purpose is to show how sewing has been a big part in my life. My mom sews, she use to make all my clothing when i was a child and now she has passed it one to me, in side the binder shows my progress throughout the years.






My sound is the sound of a sewing machine

Clapping Gestures

Pseudo Code (Same as above)

- Assemble team of 6 people

- sit in a circle

- each person thinks of an uncommon gesture

- each person declares their gesture

- decide who is going first

GAMEPLAY

- In unison clap your hands together twice on your knees

- clap your hands together twice

>loop (kneesx2, handsx2, kneesx2, handsx2)

- starting player choose a beat to begin on

- starting player performs their gesture while the group is clapping on their knees

- and chooses someone else's gesture to perform while the group is clapping their hands

- If your gesture is playing during the hand clapping

>loop (your gesture, other gesture)

- Else: keep clapping until your gesture is played second by someone

- If a beat is missed the game resets and the person who messed up begins.

Jessica Witt's Object and Audio Self Portrait

For my object aspect of my self portrait, I decided to do something that included a collage. This is something I do on a regular basis, cutting out pictures and words from magazines. However, I do not always find that the images in fashion magazines for example, are very real. I wanted to pick an image to put along with all of the fashion photos I chose, to make it have more of an "imperfect" look about it. I chose one of my favourite images that is several trees, with the leaves forming a face in the sky. I find this picture to be extremely beautiful, especially considering nature is all about imperfections in its beauty. So among all these movie stars and models, there is this one photo that makes it somewhat flawed.

For my audio portion, I decided to re-learn a song I used to play on the piano, "Comptine D'un Autre Ete". This song was always my favourite, but to make it include imperfections, I had to play with it a little on a sound mixing website. I created what sounded like mistakes, but they actually just add to the beauty of the song. I think imperfections is what makes someone or something beautiful and interesting, which is the reason I chose this theme for my self portrait.

Click here for my audio

Konstantino K's Paper & Motors REDONE

Seeing as the first iteration of my "Chaos Box" was left incomplete due to technical difficulties (namely, the single fan I had did not have the power to blow the confetti all throughout the box), I took it upon myself to follow up with the assignment and create a more finished product. If you'd like to see my original work, please click here.

The main fixes and updates for this iteration, of which I'll now refer to as "Chaos Box v2," are as follows:

• A sturdy enclosed box: The original wasn't fastened together as the fan wasn't working successfully. I wanted to be able to get back in there to fix the issues later. Version 2 is reinforced with cardboard on the four main walls.
• No more alphabet metaphor: I found that the "alphabet tiles" in version 1 were not successful, as the mass of confetti made the letters generally illegible. In this version, I chose to focus on the chaos of the confetti and the way paper can interact with the wind. It's always fascinating watching papers fly around in a dust tornado, right?
• Lighter confetti: The original confetti was created with cut out strips of construction paper. Version 2 uses coloured tissue paper used for gift wrapping. The result is a much thinner, lighter material that is far more likely to be picked up by air currents.
• Upgraded fan x2: The last version of the box used a 6V DC motor with a custom fan blade I had assembled out of a few pieces of bristol board and some rubber bands. The new fans are solid fans used in computers (these are often used to cool down a CPU or graphics card). Furthermore, I've used two fans now, one placed on either side of the box, to create better circulation inside the box. This allows the confetti to blow around infinitely, while the original version simply pushed all the confetti it could reach to the opposite side of the box.

Overall I'm quite pleased with the modifications. The end result is quite literally a chaotic box, where you can easily lose yourself for several minutes staring at the different colours mix with each other frantically.

In a further iteration, I would like to include two more motors on the remaining walls, as well as to boost the voltage going to each fan independently. This would allow all four fans to spin much quicker and create more wind power through the entire box, ultimately covering a much broader space and making the confetti blow around even more chaotically.

Jessica R's Paper & Motor

I created Charlie Chaplin using cardboard paper and black&white paint for detailing his appearance. By attaching both ends of the elastic to the center of the motor and the rotater, it allows it to control the movement of the arm. Another piece of elastic could be attached to the rotater and Charlie's hand, it creates the movement of his arm moving up and down, it is his famous Chaplin signature gesture.

Jonathan Seguin's Audio Portrait

Press play to hear my composition.

The titlescreen music was made in FLStudio using a step sequencer and some 8-bit VSTs.

For this project I aimed to represent myself by encapsulating myself within "the machine". When I looked around for a conceptual object to represent myself with, I realized that I had very few possessions. I do not have toys, I do not have trinkets, there are no physical novelties that I covet. Thinking about this further I realized most of the activity in my life revolves around digital technology and gaming. The "meta"; the non-physical; the digital, is what I value most.


The visuals pay homage to Metroid. I remixed the original Metroid title screen to include a pixelized portrait of myself, and changed the title to the nickname I have held for years and years: "Johnny". This helped to represent myself as a character, within the confines of a game, abstracted from my physical reality.


The game Metroid is an experience of solitude. Because of all the time spent absorbed in games and technologies, I have come to enjoy my "quiet time".

Lastly I decided to put the two elements together on my Nintendo DS. The Nintendo DS is a portable gaming system, which is significant in the fact that it allows me to take my virtual experiences with me. I tend to always be carrying some sort of digital device with me, because without them I just wouldn't be me.

Tristan Gallant - Audio Protrait

Tristan Gallant - Sound and Object Self Portrait by tristangallant

For a good portion of my life I never really had any option to choose what I wanted to do with basically anything, so when I was thinking of what to do with this project I went with a Pandora's Box kind of thing, except in this case it's my box and my sound is playing inside it.