Scott Fisher

Annenberg Research Park Colloquium Series: Multimedia Literacy Track
Join students and faculty for a presentation by Peter Lunenfeld on December
2nd @ 11am.

Title: "Bespoke Futures: Addressing the Vision Deficit"

As we hurl into the 21st century, we suffer from a vision deficit. One
reason we have so little faith in the future is that what¹s to come has
never been so inadequately imagined. Knock modernism, if you choose, but at
least the art, design, and architecture generated in that heady period put
forth a panoply of futures seductive enough to inspire others to bring them
into being.
Corporate culture certainly hasn¹t ignored the future. Over the last 25
years, far-sighted multi-nationals have institutionalized long-term scenario
planning to ponder upcoming conditions and their effects on long-term
investment and profits. What about the rest of us? The advent of visual
computing and massively-scaled networks has made it possible for groups of
individuals to come together and envision futures they might actually want
to inhabit.
We will talk about the creative mis-use of scenario planning as a means to
guide us towards crafting visualizations -- often interactive, immersive,
or augmented ­ which can inspire us to go back out into our own communities
or dig deeper into our own creative practices to make these visions real.

Time: The talk will be on Tuesday, December 2nd from 11-12, followed by an
interactive discussion between 12:30 and 1:30 over lunch for those who wish
to stay on for a small group discussion. It will be held at Kerckhoff Hall,
734 W. Adams Boulevard, LA 90089.

Bio:
Peter Lunenfeld is a professor in the Design Media Art department. His books
include The Digital Dialectic (MIT, 1999), Snap to Grid (MIT, 2000) USER
(MIT, 2005), and The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: How the
Computer Became Our Culture Machine (forthcoming). As creator and editorial
director of the Mediawork project, he produced a pamphlet series for the MIT
Press that redefined the relationship between serious academic discourse and
graphic design, and between book publishing and the World Wide Web. One area
he is exploring is the relationship between design theory and the digital
humanities.

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Whoa - an iphone app to make stereo images!

Also appears to be some new iphone apps that turn the iphone into a MAXMSP or Arduino controller:

This page contains lots of great iPhone apps, including an app that turns your iPhone into a Max/MSP controller, an app that simulates a scrolling LED banner on the screen of your iPhone, as well as many other projects that illustrate Mr. Akamatsu's interesting approach to software hacking on consumer electronic devices. This approach is also reflected in the many interesting Max/MSP objects he has created, perhaps the most famous being his object that interfaces the Wii Remote with Max/MSP.

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Discussion leader: Veronica Paredes
Time: Wednesday, November 19, 6-8pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC),
Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)

Discussion Title: "Technologies of Perception"
Tonight's seminar will focus on the toic of "Technologies of Perception" raised in the previous two seminar presentations by Jim Campbell and Perry Hoberman. Logs for the backchannel discussion can be reviewed on the respective talk announcements..

Readings for this discussion are:
1. Donald Hoffman, "Peeking Behind the Icons" from Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See (1998).
2. George Lakoff interviewed by Iain A. Boal, "Body, Brain, and Communication" from Resisting the Virtual Life (1995).
3. Alva Noe, "Perspective in Content" from Action in Perception (2004).

Other recommended Readings are:
1. "Virtual Environments, Personal Simulators & Telepresence." by Fisher, Scott S. in Virtual Reality: Theory, Practice and Promise, S. Helsel and J.Roth, ed. , Meckler Publishing, 1991
2. "The Ultimate Display" by I E Sutherland (1965) Proceedings of IFIP Congress
3. "Amplified Smell" in The Inventions of Daedalus by David E. H. Jones (1982)

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SUPERTOYS: On Play, Affective Machines and Object Relations
Bristol, Nov 22 - Jan 18

Exhibition with works by Codemanipulator, Chris Cunningham, Dunne & Raby,
Natalie Jeremijenko, Kahve Society, Alex McLean, Philippe Parreno, Unmask
Group.
Supertoys is part factory, part zoo and part play area. In the
exhibition, artists, technologists, children and adults examine how toys
operate as transitional objects in allowing feelings to be carried
between the human subject and external objects. The show also explores
the idea of reciprocal relationships with intelligent toys and robots,
and our related hopes and fears.
The exhibition is accompanied by a symposium, film season, online
project and a series of events and activities.

details:
http://www.supertoy.org/

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Speaker: Perry Hoberman, Associate Research Professor, Interactive Media Division
Time: Wednesday, November 12, 6-8pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC),
Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)

Bio: Perry Hoberman is an installation artist whose work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and worldwide. He works with a variety of technologies, ranging from utterly obsolete to seasonably state-of-the-art. His installation "Timetable" was awarded the Grand Prix at the ICC Biennale '99 in Tokyo, and "Systems Maintenance" won a 1999 Prix Ars Electronica "Award of Distinction"."Unexpected Obstacles", a retrospective survey of his work, was exhibited during summer 1998 at the ZKM Mediamuseum in Karlsruhe, Germany, and before that at Gallery Otso in Espoo, Finland. Other recent works include "ZOMBIAC", exhibited at the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, and "Workaholic", shown at the exhibition "Vision Ruhr" in Dortmund, Germany. His work has been featured in the "Future Cinema" exhibition at the ZKM Center for New Media in Karlsruhe. Hoberman has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, and is both a 2002 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a 2002 Rockefeller Foundation Media Art Fellow. He is represented by Postmasters Gallery in New York.

BACKCHANNEL LOG from presentation: Download file

�dread� IMD Forum for 11/12/08: Perry Hoberman
12/11/2008 17:53:17 �dread� "Technologies of Perception"
12/11/2008 17:55:30 �LFGrand� honored to be here
12/11/2008 17:56:37 �Deebo� http://www.perryhoberman.com/
12/11/2008 17:56:59 �dread� http://interactive.usc.edu/contact/
12/11/2008 17:57:12 �Deebo� Hey!
12/11/2008 18:03:08 �LFGrand� http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/conquest_peru_1531_3.jpg
12/11/2008 18:14:12 �dread� http://interactive.usc.edu/contact/
12/11/2008 18:22:43 �Bill� Is the interactive chart/graph available online?
12/11/2008 18:22:59 �ndef� Campbell's?
12/11/2008 18:23:02 �Bill� Yep
12/11/2008 18:24:41 �ndef� Not that I know ofl.
12/11/2008 18:24:44 �ndef� *of.
12/11/2008 18:25:26 �taiyoung� http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHX7njNbMio
12/11/2008 18:26:42 �ndef� Would someone mute the control iMac in the back?
12/11/2008 18:26:57 �ndef� Thanks. :-)
12/11/2008 18:27:30 �marientina� for the record, perry wore a jacket for this presentation
12/11/2008 18:29:24 �dread� http://www.perryhoberman.com/
12/11/2008 18:33:26 �dread� motion capture you
12/11/2008 18:33:30 �Bill� Art and Science: BRIDGED!
12/11/2008 18:34:07 �dread� http://www.panoramaonview.org/
12/11/2008 18:39:06 �dread� return to sender
12/11/2008 18:42:48 �dread� http://www.naimark.net/projects/envmedia.html
12/11/2008 18:45:17 �dread� http://www.naimark.net/projects/displacements.html
12/11/2008 18:45:18 �s� Julian Beever is an amazing artist who does chalk drawings with really nutty perspective to make them look 3d:
12/11/2008 18:45:18 �s� http://www.linesandcolors.com/images/2005-09/beever_450.jpg
12/11/2008 18:46:47 �Bill� This is doable on the wii, too.
12/11/2008 18:46:59 �ndef� http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
12/11/2008 18:47:27 �emily� yay cmu
12/11/2008 18:47:37 �Lolson� you could conceivably do this on the IRSTAGE, as well...if you come to the workshop on Monday
12/11/2008 18:49:59 �marientina� http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/CAVE/oldCAVE/CAVE.html
12/11/2008 18:50:30 �marientina� http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sf6bJjwSCE&feature=PlayList&p=903505724E1445E3&index=11
12/11/2008 18:54:41 �marientina� http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_(Holbein)
12/11/2008 18:54:42 �s� http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Holbein-ambassadors.jpg
12/11/2008 18:54:55 �snark� http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Hans_Holbein_d._J._028.jpg
12/11/2008 18:54:56 �marientina� http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_(Holbein)
12/11/2008 18:55:03 �snark� http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Hans_Holbein_d._J._028.jpg
12/11/2008 18:55:50 �marientina� http://www.generation-online.org/images/anamorphic%20corridor.jpg
12/11/2008 18:56:05 �marientina� http://gapyx.com/cmt/2007/02/orosz_anamorph.jpg
12/11/2008 18:56:22 �marientina� http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/smileinthemaking/angel%201.jpg
12/11/2008 18:57:07 �marientina� http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/smileinthemaking/angel%20window%20view%20close.jpg
12/11/2008 18:57:32 �marientina� http://bridge.skyline.net/picts/bigangel.jpg
12/11/2008 18:57:51 �s� http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/beever_1/
12/11/2008 18:59:01 �marientina� http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1194/530116141_d15c9801b8.jpg
12/11/2008 18:59:25 �dread� http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantogram
12/11/2008 18:59:27 �Lolson� wasnt there a gears of war one at the final e3?
12/11/2008 19:00:00 �marientina� http://www.claymath.org/gallery/escher.jpg
12/11/2008 19:01:08 �marientina� more songs!
12/11/2008 19:01:43 �marientina� scott looks genuinely freaked out
12/11/2008 19:01:59 �marientina� "research money" uhuh....
12/11/2008 19:02:10 �Bill� Yeah... are these funded?
12/11/2008 19:02:19 �marientina� of course
12/11/2008 19:02:21 �marientina� we own perry
12/11/2008 19:02:46 �Lolson� i think the imd is due for a battle of the bands
12/11/2008 19:03:06 �Cynthia� I'm not sure we have anyone daring enough to challenge.
12/11/2008 19:03:07 �marientina� i will bring my harmonica so people can clear the room real quick
12/11/2008 19:03:33 �Bill� I want to be a professor.
12/11/2008 19:03:44 �marientina� you should be
12/11/2008 19:03:50 �dread� might have a slot available soon...
12/11/2008 19:03:51 �marientina� we have a position open
12/11/2008 19:04:08 �marientina� now we are starting to think alike...
12/11/2008 19:04:36 �marientina� i am now going to play songs while setting up any technology
12/11/2008 19:04:40 �marientina� what a great distraction
12/11/2008 19:04:56 �Bill� Variety show. Muppet show.
12/11/2008 19:04:59 �Lolson� i want to see perry do a duet w/ david byrne (or jello biafra)
12/11/2008 19:05:28 �marientina� he did tour with laurie anderson
12/11/2008 19:05:39 �marientina� he is a pretty famous
12/11/2008 19:05:39 �s� cool projection / camera combination to make fractals ! :
12/11/2008 19:05:42 �s� http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj9pbs-jjis
12/11/2008 19:05:44 �marientina� you get all that for freeeeeeee
12/11/2008 19:07:05 �dread� http://www.vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=71
12/11/2008 19:07:43 �omgpvd (lol)� http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Intelligence-How-Create-What/dp/0393319679/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226545636&sr=8-1
12/11/2008 19:17:36 �s� for some the girl looks like she's spinning clockwise, for others she looks like she's spinning counterclockwise ! :O
12/11/2008 19:17:37 �s� http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5693171,00.gif
12/11/2008 19:18:18 �Cynthia� And some people can make her go whatever way they want her to go. :x
12/11/2008 19:21:49 �s� i remember there being some video where they have an image
12/11/2008 19:21:55 �s� and they slowly fade in some major change
12/11/2008 19:21:58 �s� and its like REALLY hard to notice
12/11/2008 19:22:13 �s� anyone know what i'm talking about? X.X
12/11/2008 19:23:57 �Hua� Not really-.-
12/11/2008 19:25:19 �dread� the gorilla video?
12/11/2008 19:25:41 �v� http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/personnel/hoffman/hoffman.html
12/11/2008 19:27:33 �Bill� Malkovich?
12/11/2008 19:28:29 �Hua� Was there a project named Being Steve Anderson?
12/11/2008 19:29:14 �Cynthia� ... there was a presentation for a 505 class last year that was called that.
12/11/2008 19:29:18 �v� http://interactive.usc.edu/members/sanderson/2008/03/being_steve_anderson_documenta.html
12/11/2008 19:29:38 �Hua� ok...
12/11/2008 19:30:11 �Cynthia� Haha... nice... missed that entry when Steve made it.
12/11/2008 19:39:20 �kk� http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopic
12/11/2008 19:44:13 �taiyoung� http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/04/09/disney-pixar-3d-line-up/
12/11/2008 19:46:02 �dread� stereopaths
12/11/2008 19:47:54 �taiyoung� http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_film
12/11/2008 19:51:27 �ndef� Is there such a thing as stereoscopic vision that's impaired but not completely missing?
12/11/2008 19:51:57 �ndef� Because I definitely can see in stereo... but very little of this is ringing true to me.
12/11/2008 19:52:30 �dread� sure
12/11/2008 19:59:42 �marientina� http://www.pcpro.co.uk/CES2008/
12/11/2008 19:59:56 �marientina� http://www.pcpro.co.uk/picture_library/dir_155/it_portal_pic_77550_t.jpg
12/11/2008 20:00:36 �marientina� imagine this in STEREO http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/cell-phone-proj.html
12/11/2008 20:00:38 �Lolson� black maria gallery?
12/11/2008 20:02:05 �marientina� more plugs for mobile stereo
12/11/2008 20:02:06 �marientina� http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp1.blogger.com/_XJseql2u5l0/RvLzQHDtM-I/AAAAAAAABXM/cHm8TKXEo2U/s320/cell_phone_projector.jpg&imgrefurl=http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2007/09/ti-shows-cell-phone-projector.html&usg=__M2_kKEFNWLq9uCvFm_9aJwX-pMI=&h=261&w=320&sz=16&hl=en&start=21&sig2=6EtIUDkZjIEBf9mVAw2Lyg&um=1&tbnid=Amw6Ljldhy6HMM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=118&ei=m6YbSbnhBJfysAOx4-nJCA&prev=/image
12/11/2008 20:02:16 �marientina� http://popsci.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/18/pico1.jpg
12/11/2008 20:05:08 �marientina� http://biblios.googlegroups.com/web/minority-report.jpg
12/11/2008 20:05:20 �marientina� http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/uploads/minority-report-ui.jpg
12/11/2008 20:05:58 �marientina� http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/07/touchcomputing.jpg
12/11/2008 20:06:17 �dread� http://www.picnicnetwork.org/person/3488/en
12/11/2008 20:06:35 �marientina� http://gizmodo.com/5084121/giz-explains-3d-technologies
12/11/2008 20:07:10 �marientina� includes Mark's light field display
12/11/2008 20:07:30 �marientina� plus the crappy CNN election hologram
12/11/2008 20:08:42 �dread� NOT a HOLOGRAM!
12/11/2008 20:12:22 �Cynthia� But I like how they have the static pre-image first, like it's an artifact of the technology. :x
12/11/2008 20:17:01 �dread� http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~noe/action.html
12/11/2008 20:18:01 �dread� END

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Speaker: Jim Campbell
Date: Wednesday, November 5
Time and Locations:
5-6:30pm Visions & Voices Lecture @ USC Fisher Museum of Art, University Park Campus (MAP)
7-8pm Informal Q&A @ ZML (Optional but food and drink will be provided).

Originally trained as a mathematician and electrical engineer, Campbell started to make interactive work in video and with electronic components in the late 1980s. In his work in “Phantasmagoria,” Campbell explores the limits of legibility by employing electronic systems in which the image is converted to its basic elements, demonstrating that both eye and brain tend to supply the missing information.

A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics, Campbell has virtually no formal training as an artist. His art apprenticeship consisted of repairing video equipment and, later, designing integrated circuits for video in Silicon Valley. But at a time when many artists who want to create technologically-based art seek a partner who knows the electronics and will leave the creativity to them, Campbell is a whole different thing — a technocrat who discovered early on that he has an artist’s soul.

Website: http://www.jimcampbell.tv/
Suggested Readings: "Delusions of Dialogue: Control and Choice in Interactive Art" and also here as pdf from Leonardo.
"Electronic Time: the Memory Machines of Jim Campbell." Afterimage, November/December 1997. by Marita Sturken.

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