January 30, 2007

* User space / Performance Space
* Making the best use of the space between projector and projector screen.
- Place user tables around the projector.
- Make the podium taller than tables, monitors, devices and a sitting performer in the performance space.
* A couple stands for printed materials/ornaments will be placed around the space.
* How to manage sound issues tolerable to each other is main concern to discuss at the class.

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November 13, 2006

iSO - Latest Screenshots

Hopely iSO will be downloadable soon from dooxpark.com which is currently under construction.

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May 23, 2006

J.Walt Adamczyk Performance throughout the summer

J.Walt to perform live animation with music in Pasadena throughout the summer

Pasadena, CA -- J.Walt presents Spontaneous Fantasia, a program of new live animation performances with live music at the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena on the following Fridays at 8:30pm: June 2, June 30, July 21, and September 1.

J.Walt's Spontaneous Fantasia is a new performing art form which utilizes high-tech interactive 3D animation techniques developed for video games, simulation, and virtual reality. Animation artist J.Walt Adamczyk has designed and programmed works of computer animation in which he draws fantastic, ethereal imagery with musical accompaniment live before an audience. The art form combines elements of painting, music, dance, animation, video art, sculpture, and architecture.

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May 2, 2006

Doox - Project 3A : Anotomy/Renaissance Sketch

My work ( pencil and paper )
1. Whole piece

2. Zoomed in view

What's the work among 3 pieces below influenced my sketch above?

Ex1.

Ex2.

Ex3.

I am really interested in anotomy. Human figure has strong feeling by itselft because we are so accustomed to what it's talking about. The body languages we daily see from people tell so many things about the persons. Even the most subtle changes of face muscles, poses and movement of human figure say something for us to recognize their emotional status or reaction to certain matters. I want to know how it actually works in terms of communication and I want to express something out of the strong visual empathy we have toward human body.

My drawing is from a photograph of the book called "Anatomy for the artist" by Sarah Simblet. This book has awesome photographs from well defined models and detailed explaination of anotomy. One of the great things about this book is the photographer made models to pose the same way with the characters from famous master piece drawings. Also the lighting is pretty similar to the drawings.

So, the answer is Ex1. by incredible Leonardo Da Vinci. Other drawings are some images I randomly took from google image but those are reasonably random and I will talk about it later in next paragraph. Leonardo Da vinci's sketches are famous for its precise discription of what the objects really are not to mention the beauty as art works. His anotomy sketches were from his research on actual dead body. They are good examples of how he put great value on the study from inspection rather than speculation when philosophical study was dominant and abundant in its era.

The main reason I chose Ex2 and Ex3 is because of the difference of how the sketches was executed. Ex1 by Leonardo Da Vinci has same one directional hatch lines naturally describing the shades and giving the hint of volume and texture of the surfaces which is compared to that of Ex2 having bunch of hatch lines with different directions. In Ex2 you can see some hatch lines are crossing each other perpendicularly. In traditional pen drawing those lines are not good in terms of giving hint of natural shades and textures. They make somewhat unnatural look in the flow of shades and textures and bother the eye of spectators . Ex3 has no specific hatch lines.

I should do sketches more often. I also like to draw using totally digital tools like tablet but I find it really heightening my creativity when I use non-digital old fashioned tools like pencil and paper. Not only for drawing but also developing ideas for project design just like the parctices we had at CTIN 542.

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May 1, 2006

Doo Yul (Doox) Park performance footage at iota Salon, UCLA

Thank you Anita for various help. Thank you Yuechuan for movie converting.

Watch the Video(57M, QuickTime 7)

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April 22, 2006

Doo-Yul(Doox) Park performs at iota Salon, UCLA.

iota Salon at UCLA

Rice Song - Chris Casady
Mecanismo - Kino
Wind and 10 Fingered Wings - Doo-Yul Park
Moon Streams - Mary Beth Reed
All That Remains - Stephanie Maxwell

More to be announced soon.
Stay tuned...

When: Wednesday, April 26th, 7-9pm
Where: EDA, UCLA Design and Media Art Department, Westwood, CA
Map and Directions (go to the website below for more information)
http://www.iotacenter.org/news/events/salon/

The performance I will give at the Salon is an interactive visual music art called "Wind and 10 Fingered Wings" which I have been working on for months. It started as my first project for classes this semester and has been polished since then. So it will be quite different than the performance I gave at the classes. In the performance I will play MIDI keyboard and it will generate 3D procedural shapes and animate them in real-time. In this work I am focusing on 2 way(bidirectional) creation in which performers are creating music and visual at the same time inspired by each other simultaneously. In my performance it means that a performer will create music by playing MIDI keyboard watching the visual created by that and then the visual will inspire the performer to improvise music simultaneously and the music will generate visual following the inspiration.

Not discouraging the seminar we have on Wednes day but I will be happy to see you guys at the Salon. :)

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February 6, 2006

Mapping The Mind

MAPPING THE MIND by Rita Carter

I came up with some questions while reading this book. What’s the relationship between brain and mind? Is mental illness physical condition rather than sickness of the soul? Would it be possible to make a complete brain map that tells us different functions of different brain parts and their relationships? It just scares me what we call ‘spiritual experience’ might be actually heavily related to physical conditions of brain.

In the introduction the author mentioned that if brain maps are complete, it may even be possible to alter individual perception to the extend that we could, if we chose, live in a state of virtual reality, almost entirely unaffected by the external environment.

The nature of human brain had been inferred only by observing its effect. But in 21st century, “functional brain scanning(MRI, fMRI, PET, NIRS, EEG, etc.)” opened a whole new era in this area of study. This book is particularly interesting because it contains many pictures and actual episodes which give us more sense of understanding how scientists have been researching in this area.

The images I showed at the class was some of the particularly interesting visuals that tell us some important insights how our brain works.

Neural Connections that have different density according to ages.
- “By the age of six, human beings are at the maximum density of neural connections. Thereafter they decrease again as unwanted connections die back.”
- The greatest amount of extra 'music' area of brain is found in those who started to play earliest( suggesting that the difference is at least partly acquired by experience )
- Some animals show permanent disfuction in their perception when their experience was blocked in their infantry period.

Drawing test( copying a picture )for patients with single hemisphere damage(left or right)
- Left hemisphere damage: The outline is fine but details are neglected.
- Right hemisphere damage: Shows only the details.

Brain scanning when watching a big ‘L’ letter which consists of many little ‘D’ letters.
D
D
D
D
DDDDD

- When focusing on the big ‘L’ : Right hemisphere is active.
- When focusing on the little ‘D’ : Left hemisphere is active.

The self-portrait of Durer
has been split and the two halves matched with mirror images of themselves.
The difference between the two brain hemispheres reflected in the drawing of the face.

How the genders differ psychologically.
Women
 score better than men on some language tasks
 show a faster rate of language development
 have a lower risk of developmental dysphasia
 score better than men on some tests of social judgement, empathy and co-operation
 are better at matching items
 are better at tests that involve generating ideas
Men
 perform better than women on mathematical reasoning tasks(especially geometry and mathematical word problems)
 score higher at tests that involve distinguishing between figure and background
 find it easier to rotate objects in their mind’s eye
 are better at hitting targets

When asked to think of something sad women generate more activity in their emotional brains than men. This suggests that women may have stronger emotional reactions to self-generated thoughts and memories.

Brain chemicals
- work in widely spread but fairly specific brain locations and may have a different effect according to where it is activated.
- Dopamine, Serotonin, Acetylcholine, Noradrenaline, Glutamate, Enkephalins and Endorphins
- Cocaine creates euphoria by blocking receptors in brain cells which normally mop up excess dopamine.

Specific part of brain deals with specific function.
- Temporal lobe : Personal memories are stored.
- Hippocampus : Memories about general things

Amygdala
- Source of negative emotions of anger,fear and sadness.
- It is just amazing to even think about that all the negative emotions are coming from one place of my brain.

The connection between mania, depression and creativity.
– Example. The creative life of Robert Schumann
- The chart that shows the opus numbers of his works and when they were composed. His musical output can be seen to correspond with the ebb and floe of his moods.
- He composed most when hypomanic and least when depressed.

Synaesthesia
- Artists have often tried to represent synaethesia.
Rimbaud assigned colours to the five vowels, translating impressions into visual ones and Whistler and Mondrian were among those who tried to paint sound. Wassily Kandinsky places images on musical staves.
- Coloured hearing : The writer Vladimir Nabokov ‘saw’ the sound of each letter as a different colour or texture.
- Brain scanning images show the extra extent of activity in the brains of people with synaesthesia compared to normal people.

Count ‘F’s in this sentence below.
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

- Most people only see four of them because the brain processes short familiar words as a single, whole, symbol rather than breaking them down into smaller units as they do with longer or less familiar words. The two types of words are thus probably processed in different brain areas.

Primary colors , Primary emotions
- Just as three primary colours can produce almost infinite range of hues, so as a handful of basic emotions are mixed to produce complex feelings.

Direct Experience vs Indirect Experience
- When someone making faces of extreme disgust, it triggers brain activity in the same area that lights up when disgust is experienced directly.

Insanity, lack of physical condition?
- The brain of murderer shows significant lack of activity compared to a normal brain.

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