Classes/2010/VIS145B

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Instructor

Robert Twomey

rtwomey@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

  • we live in public, public performance in networked culture.
  • public persona, facebook, social identity
    • masks, theatrical performance, facial recognition
    • personal media: extraction, recombination. datasets.
  • video performance
  • lady gaga/andy warhol. self-image, body image, conceptualization as an artist.
  • forensic photoshop

Week 1

  • Introductions
    • get to know each other
    • get to know our tools
  • Read:
    • Against Virtualized Information. Natalie Jeremijenko.
    • Novel Analytic Techniques. Natalie Jeremijenko.
    • What Info Counts? Natalie Jeremijenko.
    • game-mod exercise

Week 2

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

    • 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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