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Students/BenBrickley

2010-05-07T00:59:10Z

Ben Brickley: /* Midterm Project */

Image Processing - Ben Brickley

2010-04-30T00:38:03Z

Ben Brickley:

'''Motivation'''
We would like to create a digital canvas for graffiti creation. Because we are both interested in graphics and image manipulation, we would like to make a paint splatter program that can be manipulated by an outside catalyst. What interests us about this is that not everyone is endowed with tagging skills, so we would like this program to facilitate graffiti creation.

'''Interaction'''
The interaction of this piece will function mainly with the computer's microphone and the mouse. The graffiti splatters will be sprayed across the canvas based on when the microphone is picking up a blowing sound. The placement of the splatters will be based upon the movement of the mouse. As the user blows harder, the density of the spray will increase.

'''Function'''
We plan to combine a number of different styles of code to make our piece function. Draw and load image functions will allow us to load our own splatter designs into the program.

'''Visualization'''
diagrams and images to come!

Students/BenBrickley

2010-04-29T07:39:04Z

Ben Brickley: /* Midterm Project */

==Statement==
'''Ben Brickley'''

4th year VA computing media

The major focus of my work revolves around images. I am mostly interested in film, photography, and sound design, but I have dabbled in a wide variety of mediums from painting to interactive light displays. I am mainly interested in producing digital media that interacts with concepts of film and sound design.

==Midterm Project==
Emilio and I have decided to collaborate for the midterm project. We plan to use the arduino microchip controller.

'''Motivation'''

I would like to work with the arduino microchip controller to work with virtual image processing. Because I am very into photography and film, I would like to figure out a way to manipulate the images on the computer screen through physical interaction with an arduino sensor. I am very interested in trying to manipulate color, movement, and scale though an outside sensor.

'''Interaction'''

I would like to incorporate either four or eight bi-flex sensors (http://www.imagesco.com/sensors/flex-sensor.html) to control the image on screen. I will insert these sensors into either one or two gloves, in the fingers, in order to make the sensors trigger. I would also like the images to be a sort of data flow. Hopefully, I will be able to cycle through data and/or pictures through means of the flex sensors, in order to move through the virtual space.

'''Function'''

Although my skills in processing/arduino coding are limited, I hope to be able to use the read and write functions in arduino in order to communicate with the flex sensors.

'''Visualization'''

diagrams and images to come!

Students/BenBrickley

2010-04-29T05:58:11Z

Ben Brickley: /* Statement */

==Statement==
'''Ben Brickley'''

4th year VA computing media

The major focus of my work revolves around images. I am mostly interested in film, photography, and sound design, but I have dabbled in a wide variety of mediums from painting to interactive light displays. I am mainly interested in producing digital media that interacts with concepts of film and sound design.

==Midterm Project==
Emilio and I have decided to collaborate for the midterm project. We plan to use the arduino microchip controller.

'''Motivation'''
I would like to work with the arduino microchip controller to work with virtual image processing. Because I am very into photography and film, I would like to figure out a way to manipulate the images on the computer screen through physical interaction with an arduino sensor. I am very interested in trying to manipulate color, movement, and scale though an outside sensor.

'''Interaction'''
I would like to incorporate either four or eight bi-flex sensors (http://www.imagesco.com/sensors/flex-sensor.html) to control the image on screen. I will insert these sensors into either one or two gloves, in the fingers, in order to make the sensors trigger.

'''Function'''
Although my skills in processing/arduino coding are limited, I hope to be able to use the read and write functions in arduino in order to communicate with the flex sensors.

'''Visualization'''
diagrams and images to come!

Students/BenBrickley

2010-04-07T21:28:28Z

Ben Brickley: New page: ==Statement== '''Ben Brickley''' 4th year VA computing media The major focus of my work revolves around images. I am mostly interested in film, photography, and sound design, but I hav...

Classes/2010/VIS145B

2010-04-07T21:17:16Z

Ben Brickley: /* Student Pages */

== Time and Process Based Digital Media II ==
Time: Thursdays 3:30-6:20pm, VAF 228

This class is an advanced study and portfolio project course centered on the use of hardware and software to create interactive and time-based art. These projects can take many forms—interactive installations, dynamic visualizations/sonifications, printed renderings—chosen by the students. This will not be a course of technical instruction—rather we will consider technical and conceptual issues in tandem, supplementing discussions and activities with specific technical instruction where necessary. There is a strong emphasis on the development and articulation of personal directions of research by the students in the course.

I would like to split the reading/homework responsibility for two parts of the class. In the first half of the term I will present a series of works and readings covering my particular interests--the intersections of social performance, embodied experience, and cognition. In the latter half of the class (after the midterm) you all will do the presentations on topics of your choosing. Working individually or in small groups, you will provide us with some conceptual provocation (reading material) covering topics you intend to engage with your final, and you will lead a discussion on technical and conceptual issues. Reading and critical writing, in response to text and works you present and those I present, are integral to this course.

== Instructor ==
Robert Twomey

rtwomey@ucsd.edu
*http://roberttwomey.com
*http://experimentalgamelab.net
*http://crca.ucsd.edu

Office Hours: Wednesday 3-4pm, Atkinson Hall Rm 1601 (CRCA research neighborhood). Please e-mail me if you plan to attend.

== Grading ==
*Midterm Project - 30%
*Final Project - 40%
*Presentations - 10%
*Readings - 10%
*Participation - 10%

=== Presentations ===
(1) Short presentation on your work in the second week of class. This should be a statement of your interests, direction, goals with media art. Present examples from your own work which you feel strongly about, and which best represent your interests and trajectory. Present examples of other artist's work that serve as models for the kind of work you would like to make. (5-10 minutes each)

(2) Medium presentation on final projects in the second semester of the course (weeks 7-9). This is the portion of the class where you dictate the reading and the discussion. If you are presenting on a given week, you need to provide us with a reading 1 week in advance. We will sign up for those time slots in week 6, just after the midterm. (10-15 minutes)

=== Reading Responses ===
These are written summaries and critical responses to materials assigned for out of class viewing. Things to consider: What points does the author make? Do you buy their assumptions or agree with their conclusions? Reading responses will be printed and turned in to the instructor at the beginning of class. Generally these should be 1 page long.

=== Projects ===
Midterm and final projects will be graded on concept, effort, and realization. Formal proposals are a necessary component of the process so take them seriously. Make the effort to get started early and seek the help you need--we want to see finished, well-considered pieces for the midterm and final. Additionally, you will need to submit documentation of the project after completion which includes images, video, and source code where applicable. These materials (proposals and documentation) will all be posted to the wiki.
=== Documentation Policy ===
*personal wiki page
*source code on wiki
*image/video documentation where appropriate.
*explanatory writing (on intent, motivation, context)

=== Attendance ===
Attendance is mandatory. Each unexcused absence will drop your final grade one letter. There are only 10 weeks of class, please come to them all.

== Schedule ==
=== Week 1 - Intro ===
*Introductions
*Scope of course, interests, technical possibilities.
*My work.
*Watch: We Live In Public. 2009. (excerpts)
*In class: personal page on wiki. [http://www.trsp.net/teaching/gamemod/ game-mod exercise]. [http://www.trsp.net/teaching/gamemod/gamemod_breakout_source_en.zip download link]
*Read: [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/mainmenu/archive_tangible.html Against Virtualized Information], [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/mainmenu/archive_analtictech.html Novel Analytic Techniques], and [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/mainmenu/archive_infocounts.html What Information Counts?] by [http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/people/natalie-jeremijenko/ Natalie Jeremijenko].
*Read: [http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_03/jeremijenko.html An Engineer for the Avante Garde]
*Read: [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001450.html Natalie Jeremijenko The WorldChanging Interview]
*Read: [http://tech90s.walkerart.org/nj/transcript/nj_01.html Database Politics and Social Simulations], good background on her earlier artwork.

=== Week 2 - Computer Vision / Human Perception ===
*Due: 1 page on Jeremijenko.
*Presentations on your work.
*Watch: Suicide Box. Bureau of Inverse Technology. 1996. (13:00)
*Discuss: Marie Sester. ACCESS. 2003. http://accessproject.net
*Discuss: Eyewriter. http://www.eyewriter.org/ -> Saccade.
*Discuss: CV methods—thresholding, blob-detection, facial recognition, motion/flow estimation.
*CV experiments.

=== Week 3 ===
=== Week 4 ===
*Due: Midterm proposals.
=== Week 5 ===
Midterm critiques.
=== Week 6 ===
=== Week 7 ===
Student presentations
=== Week 8 ===
Student presentations
=== Week 9 ===
Student presentations
=== Week 10 ===
Final critiques.
=== Finals Week ===
Final documentation due.
== Topics ==
'''Performance for the camera, for the web'''
*Discuss Chatroulette. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube. Attention in the social net.
*Discuss telematic perfromance.
*Read: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (excerpt). Erving Goffman. 1959.
*Read: Performance: A Critical Introduction (excerpt). Richard Carlson. 2004.
*Do: Intervention in social circuits. Chatroulette/Facebook/Youtube exercise.

'''Social Networks/Web 2.0'''
*Read: Protocol, Control, and Networks by Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker. Grey Room 17, Fall 2004 p 6-29.
*Read: DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism. Jaron Lanier. 2006.
*Watch: MediatedCultures @ Kansas State http://mediatedcultures.net/mediatedculture.htm
*Datamining/Complex Networks, node-edge graphing.

'''Digital Memory/Personal Media: Where do we exist and how do we remember?'''
*Read: Mediated Memories in the Digital Age (excerpt). Jose van Dijck. 2007.
*Read: Are you sure you want to do this? Matthias Fuchs 1994.
*Read: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (excerpt). Viktor Mayer-Schonberger. 2009.
*Flickr.com, Facebook
*Discuss: My Pocket. Burak Arikan. 2008.

'''Cognition + Creativity'''
*Generative Art vs. Computational Creativity
*Casy Reas
*Processing.org
*Read: Triumph of the Cyborg Composer.
*Read: How to draw three people in a garden. 1988.
*Read: Shades of Computational Evocation and Meaning: The GRIOT System and Improvisational Poetry Generation. 2006.

'''Artificial Intelligence'''
*Read: Expressive Processing (excerpt), Noah Wardrip Fruin, 2009.
*Read: Elephants Don't Play Chess, Rodney Brooks, 1990.

'''Appropriation and Remix'''
*Read: The Fiction of Memory. New York Times, March 12, 2010. Luc Sante
*Read: Jonatham Lethem. The Ecstasy of Influence. Harpers Magazine. 2007.
*Remix Culture. Lev.
*God's Little Toys: Confessions of a cut & paste artist. William Gibson. 2005. *http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/gibson.html
*Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. David Shields. 2010.

'''Materiality in the information age.'''
*Tangible interfaces, haptic feedback.
*Read: Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (excerpt). Sherry Turkle, 2007.
*Read: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (excerpt). Matthew Kirschenbaum. 2008.
*View: BIT Plane.
*View: Garbage Cubes
*Discuss techniques of markerless tracking, augmented reality, QR codes, etc. *Online/Offline Space.

'''Embodiment'''
*Computing with bodies, engineered bodies
*tactile media, haptic interface
*embodied perception
*Read: Stelarc.

'''Self-Image'''
*Read: Self/Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (excerpt). Amelia Jones, 2006.
*Do: Forensic Photoshop Exercise.
*http://www.flickr.com/photos/dryponder/sets/72157623726710218/
*http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/02/obama_being_forced_to_look_at.html#photo=1
*http://bubleraptor.tumblr.com/

== Places to Find Art ==
* http://we-make-money-not-art.com/
* http://www.isea-web.org/, http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/
* http://www.transmediale.de/en
* http://01sj.org/
* http://www.file.org.br/
* http://www.aec.at/festival_about_en.php
* http://www.sciencegallery.com/lightwave09
* Institutions that Sponsor/Show Media Art
** Eyebeam New York City
** New Museum/Rhizome.org http://rhizome.org
** HarvestWorks
** Machine Project, Los Angeles.

== Student Pages ==
Click "edit" on the right to add your own page below.
* [[Students/RobertTwomey | RobertTwomey]]
* [[Students/ Javier Lee | Javier Lee]]
* [[Students/Jenny Wang | Jenny Wang]]
* [[Students/Joeny Thipsidakhom | Joeny Thipsidakhom]]
* [[Students/Kuan-Ting Lu | Tony Lu]]
* [[Students/Jezreel Callejas| Jezreel Callejas]]
* [[Students/ChristinaSanchez| Christina Sanchez]]
* [[Students/BenBrickley | BenBrickley]]

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