In 1914 Marcel Duchamp produced his first “readymade” – artwork made from things he found lying around (bottles, shovels, a coat-rack, & cetera). For this assignment you are going to use a readymade system – a signal processing system that you find lying around. Your “found system” could be on the internet, in one of your classrooms, in your telephone… It could be a photocopier, an online tool that transforms text or images, a plug-in or filter in an app, a toy that transforms sounds, etc.
Like Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room, you are going to use this system over and over and until your original signal is destroyed. Present each generation of the transformed signal so we can see/hear it evolve.
Your signal can be text, sounds, images, video – or something else. Win big on the “concept” section of this assignment by thinking of something we didn’t see coming.
Post your documentation on the class website along with a description of what you did. If you have any special code or media to share upload it in the Work Submission area of the Shared Google Drive and include the link in your post (for Assignment 1 this step is optional). Tag your post “Assignments” (see here for more details on posting to the site). Enter a link to your post on Canvas.