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| − | + | Participation - 20% | |
| − | + | Midterm Project - 20% | |
| − | + | Final Project - 30% | |
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| − | + | Attendance is mandatory. You get one excused absence--each class missed after that will drop your final grade one letter. | |
| − | + | Projects are graded on concept, realization, and presentation. Formal proposals are part of the process for midterm and final projects. | |
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Readings will familiarize you with material covered in lecture. | Readings will familiarize you with material covered in lecture. | ||
| − | Documentation and presentation policies | + | == Documentation and presentation policies == |
| − | + | *personal wiki page | |
| − | + | *source code on wiki | |
| − | + | *image/video documentation where appropriate. | |
| − | + | *explanatory writing (1 paragraph on intent, motivation, context) | |
== Schedule == | == Schedule == | ||
Revision as of 21:21, 31 March 2010
Contents
Instructor
Robert Twomey
rtwomey@ucsd.edu
- my work: http://roberttwomey.com
- experimental game lab: http://experimentalgamelab.net
- CRCA: http://crca.ucsd.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 3-4pm, Atkinson Hall Rm 1601 (CRCA research neighborhood)
Course Info
Time: Thursdays 3:30-6:20pm, VAF 228
Time and Process Based Digital Media
Vis 145B - Students will implement time and process based projects under the direction of faculty. Projects such as software and hardware interfacing, computer mediated performance, software art, installation, interactive environments, data visualization and sonification will be produced as advanced study and porfolio project. (4 units)
Grading Policy
Participation - 20% Midterm Project - 20% Final Project - 30%
Attendance is mandatory. You get one excused absence--each class missed after that will drop your final grade one letter.
Projects are graded on concept, realization, and presentation. Formal proposals are part of the process for midterm and final projects.
Readings will familiarize you with material covered in lecture.
Documentation and presentation policies
- personal wiki page
- source code on wiki
- image/video documentation where appropriate.
- explanatory writing (1 paragraph on intent, motivation, context)
Schedule
- get to know you. get to know your tools.
- we live in public, public performance in networked culture.
- video performance
- lady gaga/andy warhol. self-image, body image, conceptualization as an artist.
- chroma key, pipolitti rist
- public persona, facebook, social identity
- masks, theatrical performance, facial recognition
- personal media: extraction, recombination. datasets.
- forensic photoshop
- generative art/creative systems
Week 1 - Intro, Course Goals
Week 2 -
Week 3 -
Week 4 -
Week 5 -
Week 6 -
Week 7 -
Week 8 -
Week 9 -
Week 10 -
Topics
- Video Performance
- social performance
- webcam stardom
- Digital Ethnography / Online Cultures
- Engineered Bodies
- HCI
- Biomechanical systems
- Brain-computer interface
- Low+High Bandwidth Experience
- Texting + Low Bandwidth Communication
- High-bandwidth interaction.
- augmented realities
- virtual realities
- Vision
- Computers Seeing
- Computer Vision
- Silent Observers
- suicide box
- BangBang camera network
- http://bureauit.org/bitindex.html
- Human Vision
- Generative Art -> Computational Creativity?
- Casey Reas.
- Computational Creativity
- http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/triumph-of-the-cyborg-composer-8507/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARON
- Harold Cohen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Cohen_%28artist%29
- HOW TO DRAW THREE PEOPLE IN A BOTANICAL GARDEN 1988.
- http://crca.ucsd.edu/~hcohen/cohenpdf/how2draw3people.pdf
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_creativity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rodney Brooks. Elephants Don't Play Chess. 1990. http://www.liralab.it/teaching/ROBOTICA/docs/brooks.1990.pdf
Resources
http://www.processing.org/hacks/
Student Pages
Click "edit" on the right to add your own page below.
How-To
Register to create a log-in in the upper right.
wiki-text of the form: [[Students/RobertTwomey | RobertTwomey]]
will come out looking like this: RobertTwomey, which is a link to your new personal page on the wiki. Click on it and begin editing away.
There is editing help here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet. Image uploading help is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Uploading_images. Of course you can always view the source of my page (or any other page) to learn how to do things.
If your embedded photo is HUGE, try some of these tips:
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[[Media:File.ogg]]for directly linking to the file without displaying the file
