Salvador Orara • MFA Candidate Media Design Program • Art Center College of Design
The Machine
The Machine is an attempt to combine the interests of 4 media designers into one seeing machine.
In collaboration with Mike Manalo, Brooklyn Brown, and Buddy Bojorquez.
Instability Research Center
The exploration of materiality can lead to unforeseen design solutions, and creative directions. From the granular level of materiality can spawn a multitude of contextualizations which serves to communicate and embody complexity in a simplistic voice. From materiality, to texture, to context, to criticality.
Tonalis Luminous
This project is an investigation on how the The New Ecology of Things can utilize the natural tendency of people to think of their surroundings as if they were animate — that is, objects and spaces have motivation, intention and/or consciousness.
New Modes of Reading & Writing
Teaching Assistant for Anne Burdick’s topic course; New Modes of Reading and Writing.
Flash Things
Quick things executed in Flash for friends, fun, and family. There’s more but I don’t have all of the files, and some of the apps are too large.
Conceptual Collages
Small exercises moving towards the development of my thesis work and ideas. Autonomous brainstorming.
Russolo’s Latent Visualizer
Luigi Russolo invented the Intonarumori: a set of instruments which conveyed the sonic landscape of his techno-culture. What if his Intonarumori had a visualizer? What would it have looked like?
Oumedpo
The words we hear and speak may not be from our own minds and thoughts. In a heavily mediated world, how will technology play a role in the authorship of knowledge, data, and communication?
Disrupted Sanctuary
In a massively connected and sensored world, spaces and moments of sanctuary would no longer exist. Our connections to holy traditions and religious beliefs will be mediated, interrupted, and ultimately destroyed.