I'm currently a student of Brett Stalbaum, professor at UCSD and new media artist. As part of the visual art class he teaches, I created the following project, and he recommended that I post about it here:

• This visual arts project tested both my skill and my patience. The assignment was to create a one-pixel video (recommended to simulate one pixel by blowing it up) and to take that limitation and still create a unique project. The focus of my project was to show two things: creativity can be found in the most unlikely of places, and limitations are what inspire such creativity.

The knee-jerk reaction to the project guidelines is to whip open Photoshop or Paint, create single-color frames, and paste these frames and some audio into Windows Movie Maker or iMovie to create a video. However, I decided to work beyond the traditional medium (when did the computer become the traditional medium?) and return to the roots of new media art: by coding my project. I decided to write code for something so unique that competition would be very hard to find:

My graphing calculator.