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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.  
 
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.  
  
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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.  Living in a rapidly changing technological landscape, how are we redefining ourselves and social relations? We will consider works and techniques that engage sites of social performance, embodiment, and cognition. In the latter half of the class you all will do the presentations.  Working individually or in small groups, you will provide us with some conceptual provocation (reading material) covering subjects you intend to cover with your final, and lead a discussion on technical and conceptual issues.  
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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.  Living in time of rapid technological change, how are we redefining our selves? We will consider works and techniques that engage concepts of social networks, public performance, embodiment, and cognition. In the latter half of the class you all will do the presentations.  Working individually or in small groups, you will provide us with some conceptual provocation (reading material) covering subjects you intend to cover with your final, and 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.
 
Reading and critical writing, in response to text and works you present and those I present, are integral to this course.

Revision as of 13:01, 1 April 2010

Time and Process Based Digital Media II -

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

Description

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. Living in time of rapid technological change, how are we redefining our selves? We will consider works and techniques that engage concepts of social networks, public performance, embodiment, and cognition. In the latter half of the class you all will do the presentations. Working individually or in small groups, you will provide us with some conceptual provocation (reading material) covering subjects you intend to cover with your final, and 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

Office Hours: Wednesday 3-4pm, Atkinson Hall Rm 1601 (CRCA research neighborhood)

Grading Policy

Participation - 20% Midterm Project - 30% Final Project - 30% Responses - 20%

Attendance is mandatory. You get one absence (for sickness/other vital concern if documented)--each class missed after that will drop your final grade one letter.

Projects are 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.

Readings will familiarize you with material covered in lecture.

Documentation and Presentation of Work

  • personal wiki page
  • source code on wiki
  • image/video documentation where appropriate.
  • explanatory writing (on intent, motivation, context)

Schedule

  • we live in public, public performance in networked culture.
    • incredulity towards metanarratives.
    • tension between performance and film/plastic arts. Mine the Gap.
  • video performance
  • networked performance
  • public persona, facebook, social identity
    • masks, theatrical performance, facial recognition
  • personal media: extraction, recombination. datasets.
  • web 2.0
  • self-image, body image, conceptualization as an artist.
  • forensic photoshop
    • lady gaga/andy warhol.
  • Computer Vision/Human Vision
  • Digital Memory/Mediated Memories.
  • Datamining and machine learning. Life-mining.

Week 1

Week 2

Presentations on research/art interests. Including projects you did in 145A, other ICAM/Vis/Music classes. Projects, media, motivations you are invested in and committed to. Due: Make a page on the wiki. Post description of your art work, expertise, etc. to the wiki. Due: 1 page on Jeremijenko.

Week 3

Week 4

Due: Midterm Project Proposals

Week 5

Midterm Project Presentations

Week 6

Week 7

Research Presentations

Week 8

Research Presentations

Week 9

Research Presentations

Week 10

Final Project Presentations

Topics

  • What is New Media Art? according to Mark Tribe
  • Embodied Experience
  • 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

Generative Art/Computational Creativity

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:

  • [[Image:File.jpg]] to use the full version of the file
  • [[Image:File.png|200px|thumb|left|alt text]] to use a 200 pixel wide rendition in a box in the left margin with 'alt text' as description
  • [[Media:File.ogg]] for directly linking to the file without displaying the file
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