RE: EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH

EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH

FINAL ASSIGNMENT (100POINTS)

Your final assignment is conduct research to help in the conceptualization of your final piece. Your research needs to be presented in a 2 page paper with a bibliography. This research should help inform your final assignment visually and structurally. Think about subjects  and generas of artists we have looked at like glitch art and internet art. Find other artists and see what types of research they are conducting. Topics like the body, language, sight, the sacred, time, pleasures, perception, icons, simulation, politics, etc. The choice is yours to make. Final assignment Due Dec. 3rd. Critiques Dec. 3rd and 5th. 

SCHEDULE:

Nov. 9th: Email proposed topic for proposed research topic by Midnight. (due)

Nov. 12th: 2-page research paper/proposal with bibliography (Discuss one-on-one during class.) 
                        In class LAB DAY, while your not talking with me. (due)

Nov. 14th: LAB DAY

Nov. 19th: Lecture
Nov. 21st: LAB DAY

Nov. 26th: Lecture

Nov. 28th:  One on One progress critique in class (due)

Dec. 3rd & 5th: FINAL Critiques (due)

(Failure to meet any of these due dates above will result in the loss of one letter grade for your final project.)

SONIC ARTS

http://www.ubu.com/sound/stockhausen.html

http://www.ubu.com/sound/oliveros.html
http://www.ubu.com/sound/index.html
http://www.ubu.com/sound/young.html
http://www.ubu.com/sound/cage.html
http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html

PROJECTION MAPPING, BYOB, VJING, & GRAFFITI

Augmented Reality - Projection Mapping from Dane Luttik on Vimeo.

http://www.byobworldwide.com/

VJ REEL | 2012 from Dub Video Connection on Vimeo.

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/

Graffiti Research Lab >> L.A.S.E.R. Tag from Sean Moran on Vimeo.

Graffiti Research Lab from PROVIDENCES on Vimeo.

INSTALLATION ART

Bill Viola - FIVE ANGELS from Institut für Kunstdokumentation on Vimeo.

Tony Oursler

http://camilleutterback.com/

OPEN SCREENING NOV. 30TH

EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH

FINAL ASSIGNMENT (100POINTS)

Your final assignment is conduct research to help in the conceptualization of your final piece. Your research needs to be presented in a 2 page paper with a bibliography. This research should help inform your final assignment visually and structurally. Think about subjects  and generas of artists we have looked at like glitch art and internet art. Find other artists and see what types of research they are conducting. Topics like the body, language, sight, the sacred, time, pleasures, perception, icons, simulation, politics, etc. The choice is yours to make. Final assignment Due Dec. 3rd. Critiques Dec. 3rd and 5th. 

SCHEDULE:

Nov. 9th: Email proposed topic for proposed research topic by Midnight. (due)

Nov. 12th: 2-page research paper/proposal with bibliography (Discuss one-on-one during class.) 
                        In class LAB DAY, while your not talking with me. (due)

Nov. 14th: LAB DAY

Nov. 19th: Lecture
Nov. 21st: LAB DAY

Nov. 26th: Lecture

Nov. 28th:  One on One progress critique in class (due)

Dec. 3rd & 5th: FINAL Critiques (due)

(Failure to meet any of these due dates above will result in the loss of one letter grade for your final project.)

EXPLORING INTERACTIVE TOOLS

TOOLS:
http://cycling74.com/
http://processing.org/
http://www.arduino.cc/
http://www.openprocessing.org

GALLERIES:
http://www.bitforms.com/index.php

INTERACTIVITY & KINETIC SCULPTURE

"Standards and Double Standards" (2004) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

"Pulse Room" at Plataforma, Puebla, México (2006) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

"Tape Recorders" - MCA Sydney (2011) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

"Surface Tension" at La Gaîté Lyrique (2011) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

"Last Breath" (2012) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

"Pulse Index" at MCA Sydney (2011) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

"216 prepared dc-motors, filler wire 1.0mm" (2009/2010) by Zimoun from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

"5 pvc-hoses 1.0mm, compressed air" (2009) by Zimoun from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

"138 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes 40x40x40cm" (2011) by Zimoun from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

"Trash Mirror No. 3" (2011) by Daniel Rozin from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

"Wooden Mirror" at W Hotel Seoul (2003) by Daniel Rozin from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

Rain Room at the Barbican, 2012 from rAndom International on Vimeo.

You Fade To Light / edition from rAndom International on Vimeo.


"Una Lumino" (2008) by U-Ram Choe from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

One Hundred and Eight – Interactive Installation from Nils Völker on Vimeo.

Captured - a Homage to Light and Air from Nils Völker on Vimeo.

"Synaptic Passage" (2010) by Daniel Canogar from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

Waves from Daniel Palacios on Vimeo.

DATA VISUALIZATION IN VIDEO

Sight from Sight Systems on Vimeo.

Titanic - for BBC History from After the Flood on Vimeo.

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

THINGPIT_HD from taras hrabowsky on Vimeo.

Zooms From Nowhere from Chris Timms on Vimeo.

WATCH MORE HERE: https://vimeo.com/channels/datavisualization

ORGANIZING DATA

DATA FLOW >>

"Visual metaphors are a powerful aid to human thinking. From Sanskrit through hieroglyphics to modern alphabet, we have ciphers, objects, and illustrations to share meaning with other people, thus enabling collective and collaborative thought. As out experience of the world has become more complex and nuanced, the demands to our thinking aids have increased proportionally. Diagrams, data graphics, and visual confections have become the language we resort to in this abstract complex world. They help us understand, create, and completely experience reality." Introduction for the book DATA FLOW: Visualizing Information In Graphic Design by Gestalten. 

A Brief History of Information Design and Visual Storytelling from JESS3

The Importance of Infographic Wireframing and Structure from JESS3

DATASPHERE

DATANETS

 

DATASCAPE

DATANOID /\/\/\

DATALOGY VVV

DATABLOCK (-This is not apart of the book)

Narratives in Space and Time

Kellom Tomlinson, The Art of Dancing, explained by Reading and Figures (London, 1735), book II, plates IV, XIV, VIII, VI. Cited by Edward R. Tufte, (1991) p.115

ROCKEFELLER CENTER

"Micro/macro composition also oversees celebrated 1930 poster composed by the Soviet graphic artist Gustav Klutisis. The design and the political point correspond-as the poster shows and also writes out, from collaborative work many hands, one great plan will be fulfilled. At work here is a critical and effective principle of information design." (Simular Ideas we was discussing about signals processing.)

Envisioning Information By Edward R. Tufte

DATA DATA DATA

“As the art being made has dematerialized and the world around us is increasingly information based, using data as another medium for artistic exploration seems not only possible but culturally necessary. The same tools used by corporations and governments to track our interests, desires, locations, and personal information can and are being exploited by artists to criticize, explore, and find poetic moments within the stream of data. This panel explores current approaches being used by artists working with data but with an eye to the past and culture. Since the available data sources range widely from weather patterns to stock-market trends to GPS locations and possible output spans all types of new and traditional media, this panel does not hone in one a specific issue but works as a survey connecting conceptual and critical points within this practice.”

Great Book: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/database-aesthetics
Edward Tufte: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
http://jess3.com/

Aaron Koblin: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work.html

Penelope Umbrico: http://www.penelopeumbrico.net/

Brendan Dawes: http://processing.org/exhibition/works/redux/index.html

George Legrady: http://www.georgelegrady.com/

Jeffery Thompson: http://www.jeffreythompson.org/

Ingrid Koenig: http://ingridkoenig.ca/projects/navigating-the-uncertainty-principle/

Information Aesthetics: http://infosthetics.com/

Visual Complexity: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

Information is Beautiful: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

Processing.org: http://processing.org/exhibition/

NYTE: http://senseable.mit.edu/nyte

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/works.html

OPEN SCREENING OCT. 26TH

Dear Creators of Media,

Arts Codec (New Media Student Arts Group) and I are hosting Open Screening Oct. 26th from 5:30-6:30 @ WieKamp 1001. Please note the time has changed. 

Open screening is for everyone in the New Media Department or anyone interested in media. Anyone who produces any kind of electronic media is welcome (video, design work, digital photography, etc.). Please bring work in progress or finished work to share. Our goal is to strengthen the electronic arts community on campus and give us a chance to see what students, faculty, and staff are creating.

Please bring files on a thumb drive and make sure they are optimized for viewing (smaller file sizes are preferable). Be prepared to discuss your work and receive feedback.

DATAMINING THE SELF

To study the way is to study the self 

to study the self is to forget the self

and to forget the self is to awaken to the ten thousand things.

 - Dogen Zenji

DUE Oct. 22nd (10points)

Your assignment for this weekend is to collect data about your self, a journal of sorts. You can choose what types of data you collect. It could be you record everything you eat in the next 5 days, or you record activities you do every hour, or maybe you go through your home and record all that you own, or count the steps it takes to get from place to place, or maybe it is all about geographical locations you travel to from day to day, or numbers you interact with. I then want these posted to the blog in plan text for discussion Oct. 22nd. As a heads up you will be turning this data into your 3rd assignment.

DATA VISUALIZATION

EXPLORING NEW POTENTIALS OF SOFTWARE

ANIMATED GIFFS & PROCESSING:

http://francoisegamma.computersclub.org/

Gif psychedelia & Gif extremity

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2010/05/07/dvdp-3/

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2010/01/03/dvdp/

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009/12/07/david-ope/
SUBVERSION
ASCII ART and other examples in class.

DUPLICATION | EXPLORATION

SIGNAL PROCESSING:

VideoGrams by Gary Hill

FAIL GRACEFULLY (Serious Play)

READ THIS ARTICLE (<<Click Here)-\/\/\/-
Discuss on Wed.

"Software interfaces define the boundaries of our work, but only exploration into the margins of these tools, beyond the intended use pattern can really expose these boundaries. In that sense in order for us to brake out of the design paradigm embedded in software we must use it "the wrong way" By all means, designers should be hackers, do what we're not supposed to, make your software fail, crash, burn... find the exploits of our tools, it's the only healthy and true relationship we can have with them. When we reach the boundaries and have learned enough, we can go and make our own tools, explore their failures, and excel within them. Like Offf's poster-child, Joshua Davis, who has built his custom made design tools and has developed his entire aesthetic style around these generative 'managed failures'." -Excerpt from Article

YOUTUBE REMIX

YOUTUBE REMIX

DUE Oct. 1st

Your assignment is to download video clips from YouTube and create a remix or database video that reveals new connection, new perspectives, new commentary on the material you choose to download. How does these videos speak to the internet, the people that is posting, and our video culture? Once your video is completed you are required to embed it to the blog via VIMEO along with URL's from each of the videos you used. I also am requiring a short statement to go along with your piece describing your ideas and reassigning for the videos you chose. (1-2 Min)

http://keepvid.com/

REMIX EVERYTHING

24 Hour Psycho: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/24-hour-psycho/

The Clock: http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/news/clock.html

http://vimeo.com/5004305

http://www.penelopeumbrico.net/SunBurnScSvr/Sun%20Burn%20(Screen%20Saver)lg.mov

Here's one of my favourite, Bootyclipse. Dennis Knopf's YouTube channel archives and loops the few seconds that precedes the arrival in the frame of a girl who is going to shake her booty in front of a camera. Don't pay attention to what youtube writes, This video is suitable for minors.

SHARED AUDIO LINK

https://iu.box.com/s/uej6y93wmzqhgkc88fsd

DIY SPACES and CIRCUIT BENDING

DIY: http://hacknmod.com/ | http://blog.makezine.com/

http://www.arduino.cc/ | http://processing.org/ | http://cycling74.com/

http://www.youtube.com/v/jwMj3PJDxuo

  

VIDEO GAME ART

http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com
http://tmblr.co/ZP86TySjd39q

      

http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/reenactments/index.html http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/portraits/index.html 

http://www.titlescream.com/

http://www.space-invaders.com/som.html

http://www.fastcodesign.com/

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2010/feb/22/general-web-content/

http://tellingdeath.blogspot.com/

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOIOT-0H0bc&feature=player_embedded#!

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009/09/09/nintendo-circuit-bending/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+todayandtomorrow_net+%28today+and+tomorrow%29http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/11/feature-length-film-the-trashmaster-made-entirely-in-grand-the/

Anita Sarkeesian, Too Many Dicks, 2010.

Female political remixers such as Elisa Kreisinger and Anita Sarkeesian (FeministFrequency.com) produce subtle and vernacular remixes of pop cultural content as queer narratives are omitted from the academic writing of remix history altogether. Calling herself a “pop culture pirate”, Kreisinger’s Queer Carrie series(2010) are five-minute remixed episodes of entire seasons of Sex in the City with heteronormative sentiments omitted. Inspired by Sloane’s Star Wars: Too Many Dicks, Sarkeesian created Video Games: Too Many Dicks remix video to satire the lyrics of an ironically sexist rap song by Flight of the Concords.[24] By creating a montage of first person shooter video-gaming footage from thirty-nine video games, she critiques the dominance of male characters and lack of female representation in these ultra-violent games.

FOTONICA from Santa Ragione on Vimeo.

Bad Trip: Navigate My Mind from KwanAlan on Vimeo.

DESTROYED MEANING

Technology and it's culture flows all around us, and is embedded into our everyday lives. Breaking the flow allows us to ask questions about its meaning and how we exist in it. It is the glitch that breaks the flow. Rosa Menkman experiences glitch "as a wonderful interruption that shifts an object away from its ordinary form and discourse, towards the ruins of destroyed meaning."

Contemplate how you and others exist within a digital realm. How do you interact with others in this realm? How does communication take place? Once you have discovered digital discourses that you find significant, I want you to think of why interrupting those discourses would change the conversation. This should play its way out into either a visual or audible digital file that should be posted to the blog for further discourse by Sept. 17th.

2010 VLC http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.6i/

GLL.TC/H ART

An Unknown Error Has Occurred: New Media and Glitch Art

GLITCH STUDIES MANIFESTO BY ROSA MENKMAN

http://gli.tc/h/

Artist & Writers of Glitch:

Rosa Menkman

Jon Satrom

Jodi -http://404.jodi.org/

Jon Cates

Goto80

Vade

Mrgn Hgby Flwrs

Nick Briz

More Reading:

http://domenicoquaranta.com/2011/01/life-and-death-of-an-image/

http://domenicoquaranta.com/2011/01/rosa-menkman-order-and-progress/

Links:

http://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art

http://selectall.org/

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glitch/glitc-h-20111ditdoit2gather?ref=video

http://nickbriz.com/glitchcodectutorial/files/GlitchCodecTutorial.pdf
http://nickbriz.com/thenewaesthetic/
http://gli.tc/h/wiki/index.php?title=Main_page

Check out his other videos on his YouTube Channel HERE

WINDOWS Recipe for a Glitch

1. Open a jpeg in paint and save as a bmp file.

2. Open the bmp file in wordpad and save.

3. Right click on saved image and open with photoviewer.

The pic should be glitched

Chairlift - "Evident Utensil" Music Video from Data Mosher on Vimeo.
HOW TO DATAMOSH

Errata from Alexander Stewart on Vimeo.

Errata (16mm, 2005) is an experimental film in which I used a photocopier to generate frames of animation. Each frame of the film is a photocopy of the previous frame. Both black & white and color photocopies were used to make this film, approximately 4,600 copies total.

Too Many Cats! from jonsatrom on Vimeo.

Oops! Too Many Cats!

After making multiple cat-based-artworks, Satrom became concerned of being pigeon-holed as a cat-artist and created "Too Many Cats Game,” intended to be his last cat-based work. The game is as unbeatable as Satrom's goal is unattainable.

Demolish the eerie ▼oid from Rosa Menkman on Vimeo.

The Collapse of PAL from Rosa Menkman on Vimeo.

TIFF Compression glitch - Rosa Menkman (2010)

INTERACTIVE MUSCLE MUSIC

Old Spice Muscle Music from Terry Crews on Vimeo.
AFTER IT PLAYS WAIT AND THEN START HITTING THE KEYS ON YOUR KEYBOARD.

GENERATIVE DESIGN

SOMETHING EXTRA FOR THE DESIGNERS/ANYONE THAT IS INTERESTED IN THE CLASS

Generative Design - CampusParty2012 from onformative on Vimeo.

INTERFACE AESTHETICS: DRAWING WITH THE INTERFACE (100 POINTS)

DUE Sept. 10th

Your assignment is use the screen grab (Command + Shift + 3 for whole screen and Command + shift + 4 for selections.) functions on your computer to gather photos of various interfaces like: Internet Browsers navigation, Photoshop tools, Microsoft Word elements and tools, and other kinds of software interfaces to use in the construction of a drawling. A LOGO IS NOT A INTERFACE... The drawling is only to be made up of interfaces elements you find/discover. The drawing is to be created in Adobe Photoshop, with a document size of 8 x 10 inchs at 300dpi. 

GENERATIVE ART & SOFTWARE ART

Generative Art & Software Art (<<< CLICK HERE TO READ) 
(DISCUSS NEXT WEEK/\/\/\)

<< Software is mind control. Come and get some. >>

Generative art refers to "any art practice where the artist uses a system, such as a set of natural language rules, a computer program, a machine, or other procedural intervention, which is set into motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting in a completed work of art."Generative art is only concerned with generative processes.
'Software Art' refers to artistic activity that enables reflection of software and software's cultural significance within the medium - or material - of software.
Computer Art History:
IBM 7094 Computer
Michael A. Noll: http://noll.uscannenberg.org/
The Beginning of Computer Art: http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/PDFs/noll-memoir.pdf
John Whitney: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB31mD4NmA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbV7loKp69s
James Whitney: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvWwlZSXaR0
http://www.zakros.com/kluver/artengineer.html

Cybernetic Serendipity
Sine Curve Man -1967 By Charles Csuri
Pioneers of the computer graphics Art
SOFTWARE ART: 
http://www.c3.hu/collection/form/
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2011/07/27/selected/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=selected
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/mar/7/climbing-excerpt-2009-jesse-mclean/
http://www.leegte.org/
http://mybiennialisbetterthanyours.com/james-shaeffer.html
utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=high-five
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/aug/3/interface-aesthetics/
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
http://www.bitforms.com/index.php
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/jul/31/universal-texture/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rhizome-fp+%28Rhizome+%3E+Front+Page%29
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/jul/3/art-your-pocket-3-sensor-driven-ipad-and-iphone-ar/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rhizome-fp+%28Rhizome+%3E+Front+Page%29

Spectrum Cube from Emilio Gomariz on Vimeo.

GENERATIVE ART:
http://www.generativemusic.com/
http://www.snibbe.com/
http://loop.monolithinteractive.com/
http://www.flong.com/
http://www.flong.com/projects/artandcode/
http://www.thecreators.tv/index.html
http://camilleutterback.com/
http://www.okdeluxe.co.uk/cop15/
http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/just-landed-processing-twitter-metacarta-hidden-data
CREATIVE SOFTWARE:
http://cycling74.com/
http://processing.org/

Trash Trash from jonsatrom on Vimeo.