Title: 10th Annual Planetary Collegium International Research Conference, Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era
Experiencing Design, – Behaving media –
Partner and Host: MHMK (Macromedia) University of Applied Sciences Munich
The Consciousness Reframed conference series was founded by Roy Ascott at the University of Wales in 1997. It has subsequently been hosted [...]
ENACTIVE ARTS OPEN HOUSE
FREE EVENT
EXPERIENCE:
•INTERACTIVE MEDIA INSTALLATIONS
•UNIQUE MOVEMENT AND MUSIC COMPOSITIONS
•INNOVATIVE WORK USING MOTION CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY
The Enactive Arts group (EA) of the Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) program is composed of faculty and students representing the disciplines of Psychology, Dance,
Music, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science. The primary research goal of EA is to build an [...]
i mentioned these merry pranksters in the smms meeting yesterday. you might also like these guys, these folks and this initiative
we settled on the following phrases as useful descriptors of ame related products and activities for use as metadata for entities uploaded to our media repository.
natural interfaces
hybrid physical-digital environments
mediated experiential learning
adaptive media
socially embedded technology
multimodal interactions
if you have any additional thoughts either for or against their inclusion, please add your comments below. we will be adding [...]
hi all, i wanted to start a discussion about generating a list of 6 – 8 key concepts that define the products, research and activities of ame. we will be using these words as an initial set of concept phrases to be used as annotation in the media repository. i’d love to hear your thoughts [...]
Here’s a link to LibraryThing, the personal book collection website I mentioned in our meeting last night:
http://www.librarything.com/
Enjoy…my username is beerland, if you care to see what I’ve got posted in there.  I think there are several attributes of the database (and functions of the interface) that we might want to heavily consider including in our [...]
Nick Didkovsky Residency
Composition Seminar
Monday 27 March
1:30-3:00pm
ASU Music Department
Nick Didkovsky and the AMP Ensemble
Wednesday 29 March
7:30pm
Digital Arts Ranch
Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, and computer music
programmer. In 1983, he founded the avant-rock septet Doctor Nerve.
He presently resides in New York City, where he composes for Doctor
Nerve and other ensembles, programs music software, and teaches
computer music [...]
We’ve posted a podcast feed to bring you the smooth sounds of SMALLab
minutes of the situated communication meeting
This is the updated session design, adapted from meetings last week. Please take a look and add your comments, or better yet, email directly about changes/suggestions. We are meeting tomorrow and Wednesday, so there will be further changes. I anticipate a complete session design by the end of the week and will post accordingly. Thanks, [...]
K-12 Meeting Notes from 12/16
Here is an overview of some of the key points we discussed. Maybe some of the other group members can expand these highlights?
Schedule: We will meet this tuesday and wednesday at 10:30. We will set fixed times in Jan, once everyones schedules have stabilized.
The bulk of our [...]
Zak took notes for us, and here they are with a few additions:
We caught Thomas up on the session with the kids, and which parts of the session design worked, which parts didn’t work as well, and how we can continue to develop this particular session for the January 20th demo. Bryan and Gary [...]
a short quicktime movie by the situated communication group about peripheral awareness, community and memory.
click here to launch!
5 proposed starting concepts for the smms table design:
birchfield
AMP Ensemble
Digital Arts Ranch (DAR)
music
ciufo
The meeting provided an overview of the sensing activities and sensing methods being applied in the following concentrations, education, Biofeedback and Rehabilitation and Interactive arts.
The current work in the education project is sensing using microphone arrays. Initially the microphone array is being designed to estimate location of the speaker. Higher level features hope to extracted [...]
Participants in the meeting: hari, aisling, anuj, adithya, shreeharsh
There are two deadlines, the first for the e-chronicle conference on dec 16 and the second for the visit on Jan 15.
for dec 16:
for dec 16 we will stick to the current visualization. the actions implemented will be “catch”, “drop” and “tag”.
by monday 12/4 the database [...]
This is a brief summary of the MA meeting that took place on December 1st.
First, Harvey started throwing chairs around the room and screaming something about applications, while Jodi and I watched. Then Gang came and calmed Harvey down, and we got to business.
I presented some initial work on getting features from motion capture [...]
Meeting Summary from 11/30
Hello biofeedback team. Good meeting today. I am posting the following report on the blog as well so we can discuss on line
First of all, apologies to all for the start of the meeting being so bumpy. I have not been as involved in this project as I should have been the past 18 months [...]
The following summarize the Ed group meeting on 11/22/2005:
– The multicast was tested with each client sending and recieving at 50 Hz without any processing involved.
– We are not aware of the delay, however the delay variance as tested was found to be in the [...]