Rahman Mustapha

Rahman Mustapha

Studied Neuroscience & New Media Art/Design

UChicago

Biography

Interests
  • Creative Engineering
  • Game Design
  • Video Game Music
  • Algorithmic Art
Education
  • Neuroscience, 2022

    UChicago

  • Media Arts & Design, 2022

    UChicago

Skills

R

2 years

C

3 years

Matlab

3 years

Python

2 years

Git/Github

3 years

Blogging/Articles

4 years

Unity

3 years

Adobe Photoshop

2 years

Adobe Premiere Pro

3 years

Reaper

1 year

TouchDesigner

1 year

Javascript

3 years

VR

3 year

Maya

1 year

Projects

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Designing Virtual Spaces
I got my feet wet with Maya for the first time making and modifying 3D objects. Then imported them into Unity scene I designed as concept art for a woodland environment.
WhistleBlower

Visual novel I worked on with some classmates. You follow Aretta as you discover clues and sleuth around her company in the after hour period. Figure out just what your boss and his accomplices are up to. They say knowledge is power, but what will you do with the information you acquire?

The story follows office worker Arreta as she navigates the tricky path of whistleblowing. She must choose whether to expose an large ploy that will harm others, or promote herself. 

What will you have Arreta do?

Internet Art
Worked on projects several internet art and internet music projects involving html, css, and different javascript libraries. Projects include ASCII art as code poetry and algorithmic music and images.
Media Art Senior Capstone

Consists of components of several VR projects I made using javascript and field in a VR production course. The capstone project combined three of my passions in computer-generated music, colorful and algorithmic 3D art, and electrical muscle stimulation to make a visualizer in VR in which touching the virtual “knobs” would elicit electrical shocks to the arms. This mulitsensory experience allows users to experience the digital facilitation of visual, auditory, and tactile senses simultaneously in a non-conventional manner.

Field: http://openendedgroup.com/field2/

New Media at a Distance
Projects I worked on as part of my New Media at a Distnace course. This virtual class was offered with the intent of allowing students to explore and develop media that users can interact with together and at the same time online over large distances.
Analysis of Suppressed by Contrast Cells in Mouse Visual Cortex

I performed a series of tests and analyses of neural data in mice using the Allen Institute Brain Observatory and Software Development Kit. Culminated in a research poster that I presented.

I worked under Dr. Daniel Millman following his research (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33108272) and Dr. Saskia de Vries at the Allen Institute.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Consisting of projects I have completed in an introdcutory HCI course as well as projects I have started and worked on within Pedro Lopes' HCI Lab at UChicago.

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