FAC Talk – Friday, February 12, 3 – 5pm.
ROBERT KOSARA
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHARLOTTE
Information Visualization (InfoVis) is a field that spans many disciplines. While that makes working in InfoVis exciting, it can also lead to misunderstandings. Specifically, if a field is not well enough delimited, it becomes difficult to build a coherent foundation for it. [...]
What methods are available to artists wanting to develop a heightened sensitivity as active respondents to media? How might a group process, through which individuals are asked to describe what they see, hear and feel, relate to the application of critical thinking skills and aid in the production of new work? How can the manner [...]
SILENT STRUCTURES: INTERACTIVE AND DYNAMIC AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEMS
EXPERIMENTS WITH THE STRUCTURE OF PERCEPTION AT THE INTERSECTION OF PEOPLE, TECHNOLOGY AND ART.
DAVID TINAPPLE
In this artist talk, David Tinapple will present his work and research into the behaviors and patterns of people coping with the complexity of dynamic technological systems. How are our perceptions altered, augmented and attenuated by our tools? What effects [...]
This presentation mainly discusses the investigation on designers and design process in the context of parametric design systems. The active designers we focus on comprise architects and civil engineers. The research aims to understand mid-level patterns that recur across designers and tasks. The hypothesis is that making such patterns explicit will result in improved expert work practices, in better learning [...]
EXTENDING THE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE: FROM THE PHYSICAL TO THE DIGITAL. . . AND BACK
GIL WEINBERG
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC TECHNOLOGY, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Friday Afternoon Club
April 4, 3-5 PM
Digital Arts Ranch, Southeast corner of Myrtle + University
It is widely perceived that the computer has enriched and advanced the art form of music. Digital technology brought new palettes [...]
PLAYING (WITH) MUSIC
SUMIT BASU
RESEARCHER, MICROSOFT RESEARCH
Friday March 28, 3-5 PM
Digital Arts Ranch
Southeast corner of Myrtle + University
Have you ever had a song fragment that you found, listened to, or came up with yourself that you somehow wanted to do more with? Maybe you wanted to break it into pieces, remix it with other songs or [...]
Here’s Fernanda Viegas’s FAC presentation from March 8, 2008 regarding the Many Eyes community data visualization project.
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Here’s Jeremy Cooperstock’s FAC presentation from February 29, 2008.
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SHARED REALITY: EFFECTIVE INTERACTION FOR (DEMANDING) DISTRIBUTED TASKS
JEREMY COOPERSTOCK
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING, MCGILL UNIVERSITY
Friday Afternoon Club
February 29, 3-5 PM
Digital Arts Ranch
Southeast corner of Myrtle + University
Telepresence and teleimmersion are concerned with providing users the sensory experience of being in another location. However, this says nothing about the technological demands for effective, distributed interaction, in particular, [...]
Join us for an end of semester discussion between AME grad students and faculty
*Hear what others have to say about classes, research, and AME’s programs
*Share your thoughts on these topics and others
*Eat some pizza!
Attendance by all AME students and faculty is strongly encouraged!
Arts, Media and Engineering
Friday Afternoon Club
November 30 3-5 PM
Digital Arts Ranch
Southeast Corner of [...]
In lieu of a FAC this friday, the AME Student Association has put together a FACsgiving – a general pre-Thanksgiving social. Snacks will be provided and a movie (TBD) will be shown.
Come hang out in DAR from 3-5 PM this Friday, November 16 and get to know your fellow AMEers!
this week, prof. jodi forlizzi, from carnegie mellon will be joining us for the friday afternoon club. below is the description for her presentation.
JODI FORLIZZI presents perspectives on the discipline of interaction design, and its related research activities with examples of work, focusing on a five-year research project called The Project on People and Robots. [...]
the awesome tad hirsch will be visiting us this friday to present his work and will continue his residency on monday and tuesday, the 9th and 10th of april. don’t miss his talk this friday – it promises to be very interesting:
TAD HIRSCH: ART, ACTIVISM AND TECHNOLOGY
Tad Hirsch is co-founder of the Institute for Applied [...]
Please join us this Friday at the afternoon club to hear a presentation from Dr. Barbara Barry from the MIT Media Lab. Details of the presentation below:
The 3 Essentials of Narrative Computing
As user-created content, social communities, and repositories of knowledge continue to grow on the WWW, we are faced with a unparalleled opportunity to discover [...]
Please join us on Friday, February 16th as composer, installation artist and sound designer,
Garth Paine presents at the Friday Afternoon Club.
Dr. Paine is internationally regarded as an innovator in the field of interactivity in media arts.
He will be in residence with AME Monday 12th through Friday the 16th of February.
More info at www.activatedspace.com
What Brains are For
A New Theory and Its Implications for Education
A case can be made that the brain evolved to control action and that the control of action is still among its most important functions. I apply this idea to human cognition, including language comprehension. This perspective suggests a novel answer to the question of [...]
Hi Again,
Just a quick reminder about our wonderful guest artist, Pauline Oliveros…
A brief bio: Pauline Oliveros, composer, performer and humanitarian is an important pioneer in American Music. Acclaimed internationally, for four decades she has explored sound — forging new ground for herself and others. Through improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation she has created [...]