Classes/2010/VIS145B
Contents
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
Participation - 20% Midterm Project - 20% Final Project - 30%
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 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
- the class
- the people
- the tools
- Read:
- Against Virtualized Information. Natalie Jeremijenko.
- Novel Analytic Techniques. Natalie Jeremijenko.
- What Information Counts? Natalie Jeremijenko.
- Database Politics and Social Simulations from Tech In The 90s. intro and transcript
Week 2
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
- Vision
- Computers Seeing
- Computer Vision
- Silent Observers
- suicide box
- BangBang camera network
- http://bureauit.org/bitindex.html
- Human Vision
Generative Art/Computational Creativity
- Generative Art
- Casey Reas.
- Processing.
- Computational Creativity
- David Cope. Experiments in Musical Intelligence. Triumph of the Cyborg Composer.
- Harold Cohen. AARON.
- Fox Harrell. Griot--particularly The Girl with Skin of Haints and Seraphs. Shades of Computational Evocation and Meaning: The GRIOT System and Improvisational Poetry Generation. 2006.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rodney Brooks. Elephants Don't Play Chess. 1990. http://www.liralab.it/teaching/ROBOTICA/docs/brooks.1990.pdf
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:
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to use the full version of the file -
[[Image:File.png|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]
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[[Media:File.ogg]]
for directly linking to the file without displaying the file