Author Archives: Dan Sakamoto

Dan Sakamoto

05 Apr 2016

I would like to use my final project as an opportunity to continue to work with the outdoor advertising database. Specifically, I’d like to continue looking into ways to extract people and objects from their advertising context, placing them in …

Dan Sakamoto

24 Mar 2016

I’ve selected ROAD 2.0, a database of billboards and other outdoor advertisements ranging from about 1885 to the 1990s, courtesy of Duke University Libraries. I’m interested in advertisements for what they can reflect about whose needs represented and whose …

Dan Sakamoto

15 Mar 2016

This number station map is an attempt at examining the invisible ecosystem of spy communication over shortwave radio waves. One message corresponds on the map to on blip and one circle, with each country sounding at a unique pitch. Through …

Dan Sakamoto

23 Feb 2016

I’m interested in mapping number stations: encoded messages broadcast to spies over shortwave radio. There are two levels in which this relates to place: one is the mystery of where each station broadcasts from. For the most part, no …

Dan Sakamoto

17 Feb 2016

Zenbot is a zen garden that you can interact with remotely via a desktop application and a robotic arm, which holds a small rake. One or more users at a time can connect to it over a network, raising, lowering, …

Dan Sakamoto

02 Feb 2016

There’s something interesting to me in the way Shouvik’s “Predators of the Sky” and Irene’s Police shootings bot present images that were most likely captured prior to the events they are attached to, complicating both the sense of …

Dan Sakamoto

02 Feb 2016

Empathy Game” by Anna Anthropy is an installation piece in which players can wear a pair of her old shoes and walk around in them. The shoes have a pedometer attached to them, and players receive one point …