kimberlee swisher
educator working at the intersection of technology, music, media culture, play, making, and pedagogy. teaching
projects
digital culture summer institute
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Highlights
ZenDen at the I.D.E.A Museum in Mesa, Arizona (Nov 2019 - Jan 2024)
An interactive space which responds with changing meditative sounds in response to movement, actually non-movement, of museum goers in the geodesic dome. Each bench adds a different layer of sound, and each layer of sound moves slowly on a unique stochastic path throughout the 10 speakers in the surround sound system, giving a sense of movement and life to the soundscape.
Max MSP, surround sound, 180 degree camera tracking, I.D.E.A Museum
ImageSTEAM Curriculum Project: AI and Machine Learning for Middle School (ImageSTEAM.com) (June 2020 - July 2025 projected)
A National Science Foundation (NSF) funded program with a mission to introduce AI and computer vision concepts to middle school students through a multi-faceted approach - professional development for teachers, co-creation of innovative curriculum in visual and computational media, and deployment with students at the 6th-8th grade level. Our focus is encouraging students to pursue interests in STEM and empowering teachers to train the next generation in upcoming AI technologies that will be prominent in the 21st century.
curriculum, ai, visual media
ASU, NSF DRL-1949384
Creative Code YouTube Tutorials (Nov 2017 - ongoing)
https://www.youtube.com/kimberleeswisher
75+ video tutorials on a range of topics including digital images, creative code, Tinkercad Codeblocks, digital audio, with a strong focus on Max MSP for my undergraduate computational thinking course that uses Max as a software tool to demonstrate conceptual computational ideas. For beginners to code and computation who want to use code to augment work in sound and media.
Some recent examples:
#stayhome #codeathome #parentandcode
Soundscape at the I.D.E.A Museum in Mesa, Arizona (feb 2014 - feb 2018)An interactive environment that creates an auditory environment in response to movement and position of people within a geodesic dome.
Kinect, Max, gestural sound, I.D.E.A Museum
Digital Culture Summer Institute
An interdisciplinary digital media summer program for 7th-12th graders in June at Arizona State University. http://summer.digitalculture.asu.edu/