Memories and Visions
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday, July 5, 2026
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Monday, November 10, 2025
Creative Coding and Kandinsky
"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is-as it physically is." - Josef Albers
"The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul." - Wassily Kandinsky
In 2015, while earning my Master in Fine Arts in Media, Technology, and Entertainment at the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, I designed Orb City.
Orb City was built with 3D software, Maya. I used built-in cameras to take screenshots at various angles, thus, producing a 2D print of Orb City.
Using Adobe Photoshop, Orb City was created as a 2D print and showed at our Graduate Student Art Show at Florida Atlantic University, at School of Nursing, in Boca Raton, Florida in May 2015.
Orb City is a futuristic city with uses solar, moon, and plant light as sources of energy.
Torlen, Anna. (2015). Keepsake Box [Raspberry Pi Project]. Raspberry Pi Model B. OpenFrameworks Application.
Torlen, A. (2016). Imagining Kandinsky’s Theories as a Synthesthetic App. Florida Atlantic University. [Master’s Thesis, Florida Atlantic University]. Florida Atlantic University Electronic Theses and Dissertations. https://fau.isle.flvc.org/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=https://fau.isle.flvc.org/_flysystem/fedora/2015-07/fau_31332.pdf
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Android Apps: Marine Debris, Sea Turtle Watch
While I was attending Florida Atlantic University in 2013, as a multimedia graduate student, with some curriculum analysis of the current courses, I noticed that Mobile App Design was not a offered.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is floating island of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean and I hope humans can figure out a way to dissolve the problem.
By building the Marine Debris app and other apps, I contributed to our collective environmental awareness.
The Sea Turtle Watch app increased awareness with our interactive media programming about the decline of the sea turtle population.
We were asked by Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton to create an app. I coded and designed a sea turtle game within the Android App, using MIT App Inventor, to teach how to identify different sea turtles as well as a way to communicate if you found any sea turtles on the beach. We created the Sea Turtle Watch app using data analytics and visualization for sea turtle conservation and with educational technology integration, a learning game, in hopes to increase learning outcomes.
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"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is-as it physically is." - Josef Albers While I was earning my ...
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While I was attending Florida Atlantic University in 2013, as a multimedia graduate student, with some curriculum analysis of the current co...

