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Call – Low Lives

Posted on March 1, 2011 by admin

Via Jane: Now entering its third year, Low Lives is an international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives examines works that … Continue reading →

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Elastic Time

Posted on February 24, 2011 by admin

John Whitney Reel: Whitney made this from a surplus WWII analog anti-aircraft gun control system: Douglass Trumbull’s Stargate Sequence from Kubrik’s 2001:

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Artificial Life / Emergence + for next week

Posted on February 19, 2011 by admin

Some materials from this week’s recent class (reading for next week feb 24 at bottom of post): A rather long and …dramatically staged… video about Tierra, mentioned in the Hayles reading: The electric tortoise: Rodney Brooks and Cog: And for … Continue reading →

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Class 2 notes

Posted on February 11, 2011 by admin

Quick recap + project & reading for next week: We added a makeup class on Sunday March 6th. Those who realize they can’t attend please let me know ASAP, as in class everyone said they could. Syllabus has been updated. … Continue reading →

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The Simulationists: Mixed Reality symposium, exhibition & performances

Posted on February 11, 2011 by admin

Please try to attend this, it’s happening next Friday. There is also a gallery talk with Kurt Hentschlagger and Ursula Endlicher which I highly recommend attending, in Tuesday Feb 15, at 4:15pm at the Betty Rymer Gallery. Dates and locations … Continue reading →

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Compression for Jitter / Realtime

Posted on February 7, 2011 by admin

If you don’t know what video compression is or what’s a codec, please read this thoroughly (it’s quite short): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_compression Video files that are highly compressed are bad news for any realtime software, not just Jitter. Especially bad are compression … Continue reading →

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Cyber-diagrams

Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

Hayles – The 3 waves of Cybernetics: Shannon’s Channel model: Pask’s conversation: Numbers are topics, arcs are operators, and boxes are behaviors or resulting actions. Pask, 1976.

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Class 1 – Define: Live Media

Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

(reading + assignment for class at bottom of post) In the first class we tried defining the concepts of “Live” and “Media”. We ended this discussion with the introduction of some concepts from Cybernetics. We also looked at some venerable … Continue reading →

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ATS Hardware resources

Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

A list of stuff you can check out – after notifying me, reserving on the calendar available through the portal and filling the form with the ATS workers (atsworkers[at]gmail.com) in the Tech room. Also, you need to know what you’re … Continue reading →

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Useful Software

Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

There are many tools out there for programmatically working with media. A sampling follows (google any of these to get to the website): Additional patching tools beyond Max/MSP/Jitter: PureData (PD) GEM : Open source, all platforms Apple Quartz Composer : free, Mac … Continue reading →

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