Monthly Archives: February 2011

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

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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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Required Class Software

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The software you need for this class is as follows (may be updated throughout semester): Latest version of Max / MSP / Jitter from Cycling74. At least version 5.1.7. The following extensions for Max: cv.jit : Computer vision extension jit.freenect … Continue reading →

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