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Spring 2009 - Electronic Technologies for Art

Electronic Technologies for Art

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Electronic Technologis for Art I

VIS 147A # ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR ART I 4 units;

This course will develop artworks and installations that utilize digital electronics. Techniques in digital electronic construction and computer interfacing will be learned that will allow for interactive control of sound, lighting and electromechanics will be learned. Students will construct devices which can responsively adapt artworks to conditions involving viewer participation, space activation and machine intelligence.

VIS147A Winter 2010

Spring 2010 - Time and Process Based Digital Media

Course page Time and Process Based Digital Media

Vision

Translating - assistant in language learning. Vision

• dextrous perception - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxjVlaLBmk&feature=player_embedded

NLP

NLP

Teaching Resources

potential classes

Advanced Video Processing

Language Processing for Art

• video for the web
  • DIY video http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2009/05/15/the-media-scholars-are-the-message-diy/
  • digital ethnography http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/
  • run-n-gun guerilla youtube videos - http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-neil8-2009sep08,0,3168538.column

workshops

Language Processing and Self-Representation

• Representation:
  • Wordles
• online textual self-representation: the giant text semantic repository in the sky
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • gmail
• semantic annotation and tagging of other media
  • flickr descriptions
  • youtube
• the ongoing-conversation
  • comments sections
• traditional text databases
  • news media
  • nytimes
  • wsj corpus
• tools / techniques / technologies
• Computer Mediated Communications (CMC)
• Social Information Processing (SIP)
  • Ellison, N., Heino, R., & Gibbs, J. (2006). Managing impressions online: Self-presentation processes in the online dating environment. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(2), article 2. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue2/ellison.html
• http://fredstutzman.com/academic.html
• Stutzman, F. (2008) The Spatial Production of Friendship. Re-Public special issue: Towards a critique of the social web http://fredstutzman.com/pubs/stutzman_republic.pdf
• Herring, S. C. (2003a). Gender and power in online communication. In J. Holmes & M. Meyerhoff (Eds.), The handbook of language and gender (pp. 202-228). Oxford: Blackwell. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/1024/WP01-05B.html
• Yee, N., & Bailenson, J. (in press). The Proteus Effect: The Effect of Transformed. Self-Representation on Behavior. Human Communication Research. http://www.stanford.edu/~bailenso/papers/proteus%20effect.pdf
• Lampe, C. A., Ellison, N., and Steinfield, C. 2007. A familiar face(book): profile elements as signals in an online social network. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 435-444. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240695 http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1240695&type=pdf&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=36075291&CFTOKEN=36956775
• H Liu, P Maes, G Davenport. Unraveling the taste fabric of social networks. Selected Readings on the Human Side of Information …, 2008 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.83.7198&rep=rep1&type=pdf
• Social Network
  • Friend of A Friend (FOAF)

Reference

dig lit, writing

• Programming for Digital Art and Literature - http://www.rednoise.org/pdal/
• The World Made Digital - http://nickm.com/classes/the_word_made_digital/2008_spring/
• Digital Writing With Python - http://dwwp.decontextualize.com/

other

• Introduction to Computational Media - http://www.bogost.com/teaching/introduction_to_computational.shtml
• Design of Networked Media - http://www.bogost.com/teaching/design_of_networked_media.shtml
  • VoiceXML
• http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring07/cos226/assignments/wordnet.html
• Adriene Jenik intro to computing and the arts http://www.adrienejenik.net/icam40w4.html
• Steven Wilsons art links http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks.texts.html
• David Halswell - DXARTS 490 -Form and Fabrication: Material Poetics in Experimental Media II http://www.dxarts.washington.edu/courses/490Form/
  • assignments http://www.dxarts.washington.edu/courses/490Form/assignments_b.html

NLP

• http://www.mit.edu/~6.863/spring2009/
• http://www.ecs.syr.edu/faculty/mccracken/nlpspring2009/index.html
  • – Figure out the entities (the players, props, instruments, locations, etc. in a text) (From [1])
• http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/courses/cs224n/2009/ FINAL PROJECTS

Fabrication

• http://www.physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/phys121/lectures/lectures.html
• http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.07/
• http://www.media.mit.edu/physics/pedagogy/fab/
• http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.08/
• http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/961.09/
• CMU 39-245 Rapid Design through Virtual and Physical Prototyping
  • silicone mold procedure
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rapidproto/manufacturing/molds/silicone.html

fabrication and rapid prototyping

Proposals

EMPAC

DAC 2009

Compact Space W2010

Conferences

• http://www.ismar09.org/
• http://www.isea-web.org/
• http://naaclhlt2010.isi.edu/cfp.html
• October 1st - http://www.globalwordnet.org/gwa/gwa_conf_2010.htm

Krysta Now

Krysta Now

American Industry

• bethlehem steel corporation - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhphoto&fileName=pa/pa3300/pa3387/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Bethlehem%20Steel%20Corporation,%20South%20Bethlehem%20Works,%20Iron%20Foundry,%20Along%20Lehigh%20River,%20North%20of%20Fourth%20Street,%20West%20o,%20Bethlehem,%20Northampton%20County,%20PA&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:4:./temp/~pp_URGI::@@@mdb=fsaall,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi,lamb,hec,krb

generative

• BlackBox is an applied research resource. The group’s parametric modeling and scripting expertise is focused primarily on two broad areas of interest: the search for the “optimal” (goal-oriented) and the search for the “novel” (explorational). http://www.som.com/content.cfm/services_blackbox

mediated cultures / digital ethnography

MediatedCultures @ Kansas State

http://mediatedcultures.net/mediatedculture.htm

Networked Individualism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Wellman

social dimensions

• can you fall back in love http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/relationships/articles/2009/08/20/can_you_fall_back_in_love/
• bowling alone http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/assoc/bowling.html

LCD hacks

DIY Projector from LCD panel

• datasheet from the LCD screen of my old laptop http://www.datasheet4u.com/download.php?id=532443

Lense hacks

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/cnflikt/3841826409/

Scanner cameras

• scanner cammera - http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/11/how-to-make-a-s/
• http://golembewski.awardspace.com/cameras/index.html

DOF adapters

• http://www.jetsetmodels.info/news.htm

Video Tools

Non-finalcut capture path

• FireWireSDK capture utility to m2t file
• m2t to mov:

ffmpeg -i ocean_hdv_ca_200903_200911.m2t -f mov -vcodec copy -acodec copy ocean_hdv_ca_200903_200911.mov

High Resolution Video

• 24P workflow with open source tools [2]
• HDMI capture card (BlackMagic Intensity) [3]
• PCI-Mini and BlackMagic card solution on MBPro [4]

Sub-titles and Closed- Captioning

subtitle manipulation

VIDEO CONVERSION

• ffmpeg command reference http://linux.die.net/man/1/ffmpeg

• ffmpeg -i infile.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -b 8000k outfile.mp4
• drop audio ffmpeg -i infile.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -an -b 8000k outfile.mp4
• resize to youtube preferred HD ffmpeg -i infile.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -s 1280x720 -b 8000k outfile.mp4
• youtube recommendations http://www.youtube.com/t/howto_makevideo
• vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/help/compression

VIDEO -> FRAMES

• ffmpeg -i infile.avi -s 720x480 -f image2 infile-%03d.tga
• ffmpeg -i toiletpaperhead\ wind.mov -deinterlace -r 0.5 -an -y -vcodec mjpeg -f image2 -sameq /Volumes/Reservoir/Frames/toilet_0.5/toiletpaper_wind_0.5_%05d.jpg

FRAMES -> VIDEO

ffmpeg -i /Volumes/Reservoir/Frames/toilet_0.5/toiletpaper_wind_0.5_%05d.jpg \ -r 30 -vcodec mpeg4 -an -b 4000k toiletpaper_wind_0.5.mp4

Misc

ffmpeg to make a dvd

DV cam as a webcam

• http://www.trackercam.com/TCamWeb/dvdriver.htm

Monitor Mount

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Display_Mounting_Interface
• M4 screws (approx 10mm long), in square 100mm across.

Modifying VideoInput lib for OpenFrameworks

• Added "Bdaiface.h" to DShow.h in C:\\Dev-CPP\\Include
• install ffdshow filter for MPEG2 Decoding http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/

DirectShow details:

// Setup the other filters necessary to handle MPEG2TS Stream
// Capture Device -> MPEG-2 Demultiplexer -> ffdshow Video Decoder -> Frame Grabber

// MPEG-2 Demultiplexer Filter
// Major Type: Video
// Sub Type: MPEG2_VIDEO
// Format: MPEG2Video
// New Pin
//   Name: Video
//   Media Type: MPEG2 Program Video
// PID Mapping:
//   PID: x0810
//   Pin: Video
//   Elementary Stream (A/V only)

// ffdshow Video Decoder Filter
// Codecs
//   Format: MPEG2
//   Decoder: libmpeg2
//   Supported FOURCCs/remarks: MPEG2 codec
// In: 
//   Major Type: Video
//   Sub Type: MPEG2_VIDEO
//   Format: MPEG2Video
// Out:
//   Major Type: Video
//   Sub Type: YV12
//   Format: YV12 1536x-1080, 12bits,
//   Aspect Ratio: 16x9,
//   Interlace format: Frames
//   rcSrc=[0,0,1440,1080]
//   rcDst=[0,0,1440,1080]

Book Formatting

Auto-generating Books

• render txt files to whole-page images

OS hacking

even better... sun virtualbox

virtual box

• http://www.virtualbox.org/

slipstream installers

slipstream windows install

live CDs

XP from USB stick

• article [5]
• forum [6]
• microsoft CAB SDK [7]
• WinISO [8]
• from make magazine [9]

Corn Fed Nation

corn fed nation

E-Ink Facemask

• broadsheet proto kit ($4000) http://www.eink.com/kits/amepd.html
  • http://eink.com/kits/Broadsheetinitial_v7.pdf
• http://griplipproductions.homestead.com/facecast.html

Performance

• http://www.spelman.edu/academics/programs/anthropology/pdf/anth333dra333dwhite.pdf
• Theater and Ritual
• http://www.amazon.com/Ritual-Theatre-Human-Seriousness-Books/dp/0933826176/ref=pd_cp_b_2
• http://www.amazon.com/Between-Theater-Anthropology-Richard-Schechner/dp/0812212258/ref=sid_av_dp
• http://www.amazon.com/Contesting-Performance-Emerging-Research-Interventions/dp/0230008453/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245344889&sr=1-3
• http://www.amazon.com/Performance-Inc-Performativity-Mediated-Resistance/dp/0415774187/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245344889&sr=1-4

Semantic Web

• http://www.amazon.com/Semantic-Primer-Cooperative-Information-Systems/dp/0262012103/ref=sid_av_dp

Graphing

• multidimensional scaling
• MDS for data display http://ljsavage.wharton.upenn.edu/~buja/PAPERS/Buja-Swayne-Littman-Dean-Hofman-Chen-JCGS-2008-06-Vol17-Data%20Visualization%20With%20Multidimensional%20Scaling.pdf
• Kanada Kamai method : http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/hons/se-projects/2006/Kieran.Simpson/output/html/node10.html
• http://www.springerlink.com/content/p1l9lr13051l4251/
• http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=5&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-stat.wharton.upenn.edu%2F~buja%2FPAPERS%2FBuja-Swayne-Littman-Dean-Hofman-Chen-JCGS-2008-06-Vol17-Data%2520Visualization%2520With%2520Multidimensional%2520Scaling.pdf&ei=kwWcSobJEsHvnQfvmImWCA&rct=j&q=multidimensional+scaling+python&usg=AFQjCNHnT1QFGmJEzVYtmrxiK5RnUnN9Bw

Misc

visualization

• http://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM
• ImageVIS3d http://www.sci.utah.edu/news/135-iv3d-release.html

decision making algorithms

• OODA Loop (for Observe, Orient, Decide and Act)
• John Boyd. http://www.d-n-i.net/boyd/pdf/c&c.pdf
• Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA, Shewhart) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shewhart_cycle
• sigma six, “Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control” (DMAIC)

MedTech

DIY ECG

• http://www.swharden.com/blog/2009-08-14-diy-ecg-machine-on-the-cheap/

other

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

• http://transcenmentalism.org/OpenStim

Electronic Muscle Stimulation (EMS)

MedTech

• wireless stethoscope
  • http://www.freedomscope.com/
  • http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Littmann_3100_3200/stethoscope/?#Model3200

Map-Reduce

• http://www.igvita.com/2009/03/03/collaborative-map-reduce-in-the-browser/
• http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/googlefoodwebs/

Massive Data Storage: the cloud

Massive Data Storage

Misc

AJAX versus traditional web design

Enabling OBEX with motorola Razr V3c

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5a-sYNPzgo&feature=related

Online Culture

• Danger of a New Online Collectivism: Digital Maoism
• Lost Serendipity http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/business/02ping.html?_r=1&hpw

Forensic Photoshop

• http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/

Articles

• forensic photoshop - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/business/media/28brush.html?_r=1
• http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/02/image/ig-photoshop2
• http://image.examiner.com/x-8310-Trendy-Living-Examiner~y2009m8d10-Photoshopping--Retouching-may-be-banned-in-UK
• http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2009/08/photoshopped_images_the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly.html

HCI Rich Guidance

• Oregon State University. "'Rich Interaction' May Make Computers A Partner, Not A Product." ScienceDaily 21 August 2009. 24 August 2009 <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090819153922.htm> [[10]]
  • Margaret Burnett
  • Weng-Keen Wong - http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/research.html

Classes