Daniel Phelps
Art & Design
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Reality Mediuins:Active & Passive Environments
This presentation was held in the Spring of 2024. Its delivery led to my advancement to candidacy in the Digital Media program at Georgia Tech.
PRANA
https://danielphelps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Phelps_Prana_Reverb_PreViz_Full.m4v The natural world versus the urban environment. Over the past several hundred years, urban planning has reclaimed land once attuned to nature. Some instances of urbanization have tried to incorporate and respect the natural landscape, attempting to be an addendum to our world. Other designs had no intention to integrate open space, organic matter,…
An Argument for Labor Training in Mixed Realities and Underserved Communities
There is currently an extreme need for tradespeople throughout the country, especially in Georgia’s manufacturing sector. At the same time, the unemployment or underemployment rate in urban areas has skyrocketed to all-time highs for those in poverty. Can solutions to be found using modern training technologies to get people out of poverty and into well-paying…
Anamorphic Dualities
Created By Daniel Phelps, this piece of digital art that utilizes an inverted LED screen mounted under a bridge that connects two buildings. This “Media Bridge” is located on the Georgia Tech campus, connecting Clough and Crossland towers. This anamorphic piece will eventually incorporate user tracking to give audiences a “holographic” effect, converting the structure’s…
The Future AmericanRetrospective (2019)
https://youtu.be/Vb4BvY02N88 My work as an Integrated Media Artist has allowed me to create and contribute to a wide variety of technology research initiatives and narratives. From robotics to linear documentary storytelling, my work always strives to incorporate emerging technology and apply it to emerging interdisciplinary fields. The Future American Retrospective: A Telerobotic VR Experience is…
Electrovironment
PDF Download Outdated technology figuratively and literally clutters our environment on a global scale. Whether online or IRL, old technology gives into new, forever reconstituting the past into emerging forms that are sometimes unrecognizable but often coated with a veneer of nostalgia. Advanced (and NEW!) technology that allows us to recontextualize our world is a…
Transcendence, AR Viewports in Architecture
AR Pavilion Starts around 1:50 ABSTRACT With the advent and integration of modern technologies via current smartphone designs, augmented reality devices and experiences are now commonplace. Artists, corporations, and academia have been using smartphone experiences to capitalize on the affordances that mobile AR has to offer. From selling home-goods to tabletop gaming, these types of…
Wonderglove, Physical Augmented Intermediate Layer
PDF Download Design Statement: To develop an intermediate layer between invisible forces in our world and connect it with our senses. Specifically, EM fields and our sense of touch. Believing that all things are connected, the physical, metaphysical, conscious and unconscious. Take the magnetosphere. It envelops the planet and protects us from radiation, solar flares…
AR Layers & Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PDF Download In my exploration, I have defined a class of XR that embodies the passive integration of our digital and physical worlds. Finding examples and building them myself, an Augmented Intermediate Layer (AIL) is defined as an unobtrusive overlay of digital information modifying our physical world. The term, Augmented Intermediate Layer, has its genesis…
What is an Augmented Intermediate Layer, or AIL?
Cross Post to Video Version As the physical and digital worlds begin to intervene in each of their respective realms, many are looking to mixed realities to parse information streams emanating from our ethereal and metaphysical lives. Formerly coined as mixed reality in 1994 [1], and what now some would, unfortunately, call the Metaverse™ [2];…
