January 30, 2009
Visions and Voices Event | Monday, 2.2.09
Art and Architecture in the Public Sphere of Cities
Explore the complex interrelationship between art and architecture in the public sphere of cities, and unorthodox ways of engaging the public. Joshua Decter, director of the Master of Public Art Studies Program at USC, will moderate a panel featuring Anne Pasternak, president and artistic director of Creative Time, New York; Los Angeles–based artist Doug Aitken; and Los Angeles–based architect Peter Zellner.
This event will be presented as part of the series, “Participation and Friction: Rethinking Art and Architecture as Public Culture.” The series features conversations between contemporary artists, architects, social theorists, curators, historians and other cultural producers on how contemporary art and architecture utilize unusual methods of participation and processes of collaboration to navigate the social and political frictions of today’s urban public spheres.
http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/866404
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January 29, 2009
CTIN 544 Library Assignment
Here is a link to my Processing Library project, using the ESS library to analyze and visualize music:
http://jenstein.net/coursework/processing/levanpolkka/applet/
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November 14, 2008
Mobile research: sensors, place and context awareness
This post from the Nokia Conversations blog is particularly relevant to my mobile research this semester, as well as to something I think Scott Fisher was getting at earlier this semester when he mentioned the importance of context to immersion and presence.
One big shift at Nokia is going beyond maps and thinking more about places (locations full of information). We are also going beyond the simple contact card to a more dynamic representation of who people are (people connected to information).
The word we use to describe this is "Context", and we feel strongly that mobile devices will play a central role in establishing a context to the places and people in our lives.
When you start thinking of the mobile device as providing context, you start to think of users projecting who they are, what they are doing, and where they are. But, when you begin to think of what could mobile devices do anonymously, you can see cases where sensor-filled devices can, in aggregate, provide information on traffic, weather, or health patterns.
So, what will a context-aware, sensor-filled future look like? And how will places be transformed when they becomes embedded with context-specific information? I hope to have some answers, as well as examples of what this future might look like by the end of the Spring semester! Stay tuned....
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November 13, 2008
A Selction from ACM Multimedia 2008 Interactive Arts Program
I came across the ACM Interactive Arts Program exhibition page while searching for a Wearable I saw in the Siggraph Art Gallery this year (pictured below). There are a number of nice interactive installations/projects, along the lines of what I would like to think about producing in the iMAP program.
Wearable Forest: "bio-acoustically interacts with a remote forest. The clothing design allows users interact with distant wildlife through the use of a remote controlled speaker and microphone set up over a network."
in a thousand drops: "refracted glances is an interactive audiovisual installation in which participant's movement is tracked by a motion sensing system that maps their flows and locations onto a set of generative musical processes and video animations."
http://www.opusonemusic.net/visualmusic/Aleks/1000/1000.html
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November 11, 2008
Technologies of Perception: digital photography and architecture
BLDGBLOG recently looked at the "architecture" of Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin. Dujardin has taken to modeling fantastical buildings, both physically with cardboard and virtually with SketchUp, and then uses a remix of his photos of actual buildings to create these impossible structures. Dujardin then places these structures within completely believable landscapes, creating the perception of the existence of structurally impossible architecture.
Though this is not technically interactive, I think the question of how we perceive images and other media and how we think about real or constructed in relation to the current digital tools we use is an interesting one.
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November 10, 2008
Synesthesia and Digital Media
Artist and researcher Mitchel Whitelaw has recently published this interesting article, Synesthesia and Cross-Modality in Contemporary Audiovisuals. Whitelaw explores the connection between the perceptual and neurological phenomenon of synesthesia in relation to recent audio-visual-algorithmic art. This thorough article gives a nice overview of some sound/music visualization projects (one embedded below), while examining the limits of making an analogous connection between synesthesia and these forms of generative art.
In the age of ubiquitous digital media, synesthesia is everywhere. In human, neurological form, it is rare: for perhaps three in a hundred people, a stimulus in one sensory modality automatically induces a sensation in another. Auditory-to-visual synesthesia, or “colored hearing” is much rarer still. Yet now this phenomenon is realised, apparently, inside every digital music player, on VJ screens in every club, in robot lightshows. On these screens sound is transformed into visual pattern and form instantly and automatically; an exotic perceptual phenomenon becomes a technically mediated commonplace.
Magnetosphere revisited (audio by Tosca) from flight404 on Vimeo via the teeming void
Entire article at the teeming void
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November 29, 2007
World Atlas: final final version
very minor changes to my atlas, like a cover page with my name on it! but final version nonetheless!
CTIN 532 World Atlas Download file
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November 28, 2007
final world atlas... maybe
this is my final world atlas. all 54 pages of it! i think it is done, but i have been making small changes and clarifications here and there. i'll have the final final up by tomorrow before my presentation.
in the spirit of this project, it's best not to print this whole thing out!
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October 18, 2007
World notes and mock-ups
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October 3, 2007
Week 6: Planet development
Schedule:
10/4: Visual Design: overall look and feel; layout of site contents
10/11: Ecosystem Design: how are the effects of various forms of
data represented; explanation of data used
10/18: Economy: reward/punishment system; value of activities on planet
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Midterm Progress Presentations
10/25: Economy (con’t): visualization of good deeds; points system
11/1: Visual Design refinement: based on further development of ecosystem
and economy
11/8: Technical Specifications
11/15: Putting it all together: assembly of all parts in preparation for final
Presentations
11/22: (no class – thanksgiving)
11/29: Final Presentations
12/6: Final Presentations
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