Classes/2010/VIS145B

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

Overall grade:

• Assignments
• Midterm Project
• Final Project

Assignments are graded on completion. If I assign something during lecture or if you do not finish a lab activity, that item will be due by the next section (one week later). If you finish on time, you will get 100% credit.

Attendance is mandatory. Each absence (from lecture or section) is a 1/2 letter grade deduction off your final grade. Three absences is a failing grade.

Projects are graded on :

• 33.3% - concept
• 33.3% - effort/realization
• 33.3% - presentation/documentation

Readings will familiarize you with material covered in lecture.

Schedule

• we live in public, public performance in networked culture.
• performance for the camera
• lady gaga/andy warhol. self-image, body image, conceptualization as an artist.
• chroma key, pipolitti rist
• public persona, facebook, social identity
• personal media: extraction, recombination.
• masks, theatrical performance, facial recognition

Topics

• 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

Resources

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

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