Recombinant Media SP07

Monday/Wednesday
7:15 PM to 10:15 PM Hybrid Lab, Founders Hall Rm. 304

Assignments

Resources and Links

Weekly Schedule: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
Lecture this week!
Mark Pauline: Survival Research Laboratories
Media Arts lecture
Thursday, March 15, 7:30 pm

Nahl Hall, Oakland campus
Info: 510.594.3656

Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since then, SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product, and warfare.

Since 1979, SRL has staged over 45 mechanized presentations. Each performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of sociopolitical satire. Humans are present only as audience or operators.

Faculty

Don Day: Electronics and Sensors

Barney Haynes: Media and Programming

Todd Blair: Fabrication and Kinetics

  • todd@hybridarts.org
  • Current projects
    • Public Art Commission at Lake Merritt - Oakland
    • Public Art Commission on Pierson Street - Oakland
  • Recent Projects
    • Produced 70 New Media Projects for the 13th ISEA Conference and the 1st ZeroOne Festival of Global Art on the Edge - San Jose
    • Curated 40 Artworks for the Phaeno Science Center - Wolfsburg Germany

Grade Breakdown

Attendance: Miss 3 classes lose 1 grade point, miss 4 you will not pass

Active participation in class labs, mini assignments, field trips (see below) and punctuality 10%

Timely Completion of Assignments: 65%:

  • Assignment 1: due 2/5 Presentation Artist Report 10%
  • Assignment 2: due 2/14 Preliminary Proposal & Individual Meetings 10%
  • Assignment 3: due 3/14 Generative Media Driver 10%
  • Assignment 4: due 4/4 Final Proposal and Critique 10%
  • Assignment 5: due 4/25 Final Critique 25%

FINAL: Timely Completion of Final Project for Presentation in an Exhibition 25%

NOTE: Missed or late assignments will result in the loss of associated percentage

Field Trip

Sources Field Trip: Saturday 3/10 Just like a class - absence condemned

Sources for Materials and Field Trip Locations

Assignments Explanations

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Assignment 1: Artist Report -Due 2/5

Pick an artist or group working in the field of media and electronic art and prepare an audio-visual presentation for the class. Web sites, videos, and power point presentations are appropriate mediums for the presentation. They should be 5 to 10 minutes in length.

Some Starting Points

Assignment 2: Preliminary Proposal -Due 2/14

Written preliminary scope of work explaining and illustrating your proposed project for the final show following guidelines provided. We will analyze the proposed projects for feasibility and set up individual meetings to discuss the proposals during Week 6.

Assignment 3: Generative Media Driver -Due 3/14

Construct a sound or video patch that has unpredictable playback patterns that change over time. Media can be downloaded off the net or personally acquired. Advanced folks need to incorporate or eradicate the desk top and use both Jitter and MSP.

Assignment 4: Final Proposal -Due 4/4

Present materials ( drawings, written descriptions, working components) detailing your final project proposal to class.

Assignment 5: FINAL CRITIQUES -Due 4/25
7:00 PM Saturday May 5th FINAL SHOW!!!
Presentation of completed project in a gallery setting

Week 1

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1/17

Introduction to the class

  • Delineation of the 3 areas of concentration / departure
  • Expectations: Assignments and show
  • Possible strategies and models
  • Collect contact information for students

Barney: Computers and the Hybrid Lab (RM. 304) 

Don: Power & Control and Electro Safety 

Todd: Introduction to Fabricating Electromechanical devices 

An in depth description of the Max programming environment can be found on pages 9-27 in the "MaxGettingStarted.pdf" located in the Documentation folder found in the Max/MSP Application folder.

Week 2

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1/22
Don:
Components, Connections, Measurement and Power

1/24
Barney:
Programing: Introduction to Max/MSP/Jitter

Max Tutorials 1-5
Jitter Tutorial 1

Week 3

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1/29
Video Night		 1/31
Don: Sensors, amplifiers and control elements  

Week 4
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2/5
Artist Presentation		 2/7
Barney:
Programing:

Techniques for programing random media generaters.

Manipulating live input

Max Tutorials 6-9
Jitter Tutorial 21

Week 5
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2/12 Todd:
Mechanical Solutions
2/14
Barney:
Programing: MAKE Controllers

Preliminary Proposal Due
Please make 3 copies, one for each of us

Week 6
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2/19
Monday
7:15 David
7:35 Molly
7:55 Audie
8:15 Jonah
8:35 Joseph
8:55 Break
9:15
9:35
9:55 		2/21
Wednesday
7:15 Deanna
7:35 Cody
7:55 Tierney
8:15 Amanda
8:35 Paul
8:55 David
9:15
9:35
9:55

Week 7
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2/26
Todd: Materials and Fabrication		 2/28
Barney:Programing: Digitizing and sensing

Week 8
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3/5
Barney:
Programing:Audio Scrambling		 3/7
Field Trip Lab

Map to Triangle
10:00AM Saturday 3/10 -Field Trip-

Week 9
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3/12
Don: Debugging Electrical Systems 		 3/14
Generative Media Driver

Check out the lecture tomorrow night!

Mark Pauline: Survival Research Laboratories
Media Arts lecture
Thursday, March 15, 7:30 pm

Nahl Hall, Oakland campus
Spring Break 3/19 - 3/23

Week 10
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3/26

Barney:
Programing: Media tracking and analysis

 3/28
Addressing Critical Needs

Week 11
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4/2
Barney:
Programing: Lab		 4/4
Class Presentations of Final Project

Week 12
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4/9
LAB		 4/11
LAB

Week 13
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4/16
 4/18
LAB

Week 14
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4/23
 4/25
FINAL CRIT

Week 15
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4/30
Panic Lab!!!		 5/2
Panic Lab!!!
7:00 PM Saturday 5/6 FINAL SHOW!!!