USC IMD: 2007-12-10T19:07:10Ztag:,2007::USC Interactive Media Division<![CDATA[Kronos]]>2007-12-10T19:07:10Z2007-12-06T10:39:52Ztag:,2007-12-06:interactive.usc.edu/members/umcmahan/:1352007-12-06T10:39:52Zmcmahanhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/umcmahan/, CTIN 532 ]]>
<![CDATA[Natural History Museum & Robert Reid]]>2007-11-21T13:08:46Z2007-11-21T12:30:45Ztag:,2007-11-21:interactive.usc.edu/members/sgillies/:812007-11-21T12:30:45Zsgillieshttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/sgillies/
Last week, Robert Reid, an expert in diorama paintings, showed us his work at the Natural History Museum. He explained the old and current techniques of creating dioramas and brought us through the workshop.
See Anthony's photo stream starting here: Here]]>
<![CDATA[CALL FOR ARTISTIC VIDEOS]]>2007-11-01T19:14:42Z2007-11-01T18:59:48Ztag:,2007-11-01:interactive.usc.edu/members/jmfernandez/:892007-11-01T18:59:48Zjfernandezhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/jmfernandez/, ThesiSisehT
If you want or need more info about this project click ThesisisehT Category to download PDF files
We are collecting videos from different artists: dance, sculture, painting, videoart, music, new media, artcraf, etc... for developing an international on-line gallery to promote independent art around the world. Please send them to the address at the image.
They have to be 5 to 10 minutes videos, Quicktime of Windows Media High Quality. They can include, but not only, the following suggested general themes: 1) Motivation to Create, 2) Personal Creative Proccess and Techinques 3) Artist own favorite artwork 4) Social Responsability of the Artist 5) Personal background and funny personal stories about how you became an author/artist. 5) Or Just presenting your work in the way you prefer.
Be sure to put your contact information at the end of the videos so curators, and other artists can call you if they are interested in your work. We will show and promote the videos under Creative Commons license model.
They also will part of a second section of the project: a collaborative Remix project where people will remix your videos to create multicultural connections and making videos under the general theme "Creative Process and Independent Arts around the World: Similarities and Diversities"]]>
<![CDATA[Multicultural Videos: Info & Add]]>2007-10-17T13:45:12Z2007-10-17T13:28:40Ztag:,2007-10-17:interactive.usc.edu/members/jmfernandez/:892007-10-17T13:28:40Zjfernandezhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/jmfernandez/, ThesiSisehT
PDF_Project_Mission&Visions PDF Project_Brief_Description
MISSION Spread internationally the independent arts and the collective creation through the constructive interactions between artists, curators, educators, students and visitors of the on-line museum.
VISION To be the most visited on-line Interactive Museum and Audio-visual Data Base of Independent Arts. To create the first collaborative on line documentary about independent arts. To innovate and to educate on the communication and interactive audiovisual creations experimentations. This will be improved using a collective edition system online that it will be divulgated internationally in centers of art and education.
VALUES Multiculturalism, Participation and Cultural Democratization, Respect and Recognition, Diversity, Unity, Creativity and Universal Communication, Tolerance, Generosity, Empathy, Solidarity and Gratefulness.
Wednesday Night, right after seminar, in the lobby of the Hollywood Standard]]>
<![CDATA[Hypermedia Integration of Interface Design, Interactive Narrative Forms, Emotions & Values.]]>2008-04-14T15:05:21Z2007-10-05T13:39:47Ztag:,2007-10-05:interactive.usc.edu/members/jmfernandez/:892007-10-05T13:39:47Zjfernandezhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/jmfernandez/, ThesiSisehT
I hope it can help to inspire others, specially my brilliant classmates Jesse & Ken, finding some practical applications or some elements to include on an interactive experience, in terms of interface design, interactive narrative forms, emotions and values.
Photo Captured during the experiment synchronizing the physical interactions of one of the players with the virtual interactions within the game
There are a video presentation, the video is too long 13 minutes for youtube so if you want a copy let me know, and a PDF summary of the conclusions from my dissertation "The Hypermedia Elements that Improve the Users’ Immersion & Constructive Interactions" developed for Ph.D. in Audiovisual Communications. This research was conducted by Jorge Mora between the summet 2003 until fall 2005, it was directed by Isidro Moreno within the Departamento de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad II, Facultad de CC. de la Información, Universidad Complutense de Madrid It counted with brilliant collaborators like: Lev Manovich, Sheldon Brown, David Cole, Carol Hobson, Lars; and the institutions: CRCA, CalIt2, 5Dimension project (at the Laboratory of and the Visual Arts Department, University of California San Diego, between others. Thanks all again for their great contributions. Some parts of the Video are academic & educational examples taken from Videogames developed by EA, Sony, Indrustries Light & Magic. I thank these companies and their creators to allow an educational & academic fair use of these creative portions
You are welcome to use this material, please just mentioned the original resource for respect to all the people who worked on it.]]>
<![CDATA[Cross-Cultural Videos]]>2007-09-27T17:45:09Z2007-09-27T17:14:21Ztag:,2007-09-27:interactive.usc.edu/members/jmfernandez/:892007-09-27T17:14:21Zjfernandezhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/jmfernandez/, ThesiSisehT
Image created integrating Nam June Paik video sculpture art & a traditional Chinese Puppet
MISSION Spread internationally the independent arts and the collective creation through the constructive interactions between artists, curators, educators, students and visitors of the on-line museum.
VISION To be the most visited on-line Interactive Museum and Audio-visual Data Base of Independent Arts. To create the first collaborative on line documentary about independent arts. To innovate and to educate on the communication and interactive audiovisual creations experimentations. This will be improved using a collective edition system online that it will be divulgated internationally in centers of art and education.
VALUES Multiculturalism, Participation and Cultural Democratization, Respect and Recognition, Diversity, Unity, Creativity and Universal Communication, Tolerance, Generosity, Empathy, Solidarity and Gratefulness.
If you are interested in collaborating, funding or sponsoring please contact the email at the bottom.
Well, we really don't wanna say too much about it. We gang of the same philosophy just shoot. Hungry? Blood up? Click onME.
We are in need of crews, the best from IMD. Don't let those plain P guys make the history! ( Co-Producers: Yimin & Andres yiminfilm@gmail.com theultimateaction@yahoo.com )
~ 柯粤川]]>
<![CDATA[Research Bibliography]]>2007-01-17T00:54:30Z2006-11-09T10:21:04Ztag:,2006-11-09:interactive.usc.edu/members/yuechuan:542006-11-09T10:21:04Zyuechuanhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/yuechuan The Photoplay: A Psychological Study - Hugo Munsterberg; The Surfaces of Reality - Michael Roemer; The Language of Vision - Gyorgy Kepes; Art and Visual Perception - Rudolf Anheim; Film as Art - Rudolf Arnheim; Toward True Cinema - Slavko Vorkapich; An Introduction to Psychology (only the part of the visual and aural); An Introduction of Film History; ....
(I'm cautions to see reading is good for fine arts - except the history. For cinema, the recorded media, many productive researches along the history are based on hands-on experiments; Playing with text (medium) doesn't mean anything because it has nothing to do with cinema, another medium. The Bibliography of the recorded media, cinema, should be a serial of cinematic pieces.)
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<![CDATA[An addendum...]]>2006-09-05T10:59:11Z2006-09-05T09:48:33Ztag:,2006-09-05:interactive.usc.edu/members/diamante/:472006-09-05T09:48:33Zdiamantehttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/diamante/
So a few people have reacted quite negatively to the quote from my previous post. I guess my choice of words wasn't that great...
I think the thing to note is that: no matter how awesome an engineer is at the mixing board or how quickly a person can fly around the console view of a PC sequencer, he mixes through a method of controllying multiple one dimensional values. With his given hands he can only shift one of these values at a time. If he's GOOD, he can shift two of those values at a time.
Spatiality, however, cannot be defined by a single one dimensional pot or fader.
Sure, the old paradigm of the stereo line worked fine with the pot and fader combo: a quick twist to put it somewhere between full left and full right, a quick push to place the volume.
But in the surround sound world that just doesn't fly. Things like how focused or wide the sound is, or distribution of rear channels, or ratio of front to rear mix. And there are other things like reverb and EQ that also affect the perceived directionality of the sound.
I did recently buy a high end audio sequencer; I upgraded my old Sonar 3 to the hip and cool Sonar 5 Producer Edition. Among the things that it has is an "intuitive surround panner" that "appears on any surround channel or bus, with no need for patching." It's not bad, and it allows for automation too... but for a top-of-the-line professional tool, it feels remarkably amateurish...how about being able to visualize sounds on top of each other? If you want to see sounds relative to others in surround space, your only option is to look at the respective surround panner circles side by side. Geez!
There must be a better way... a way that is not only faster and more intuitive, but also perfectly complementary to existing workflows as well as inspiring to manipulate and behold.
I did recently buy a high end audio sequencer; I upgraded my old Sonar 3 to the hip and cool Sonar 5 Producer Edition. Among the things that it has is an "intuitive surround panner" that "appears on any surround channel or bus, with no need for patching." It's not bad, and it allows for automation too... but for a top-of-the-line professional tool, it feels remarkably amateurish...how about being able to visualize sounds on top of each other? If you want to see sounds relative to others in surround space, your only option is to look at the respective surround panner circles side by side. Geez!