Classes/2010/VIS145B

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Instructor

Robert Twomey

Office Hours:

Wednesday 3-4pm

Atkinson Hall 1602 (CRCA Research Neighborhood)

please e-mail if you intend to come by

Course Info

Time: Thursdays 3:30-6:20pm, VAF 228. 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)

Resources

http://www.processing.org/hacks/

Curriculum

Week 1 - Intro, Course Goals

Week 2 -

Week 3 -

Week 4 -

Week 5 -

Week 6 -

Week 7 -

Week 8 -

Week 9 -

Week 10 -

• performance
  • social performance
  • webcam stardom
• vision
• 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

• Computer Vision

• Computational Creativity / Generative Art
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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

• AI
  • embodied http://www.liralab.it/teaching/ROBOTICA/docs/brooks.1990.pdf