EV Graduate Seminar - AD508 F08

overview-of-sage
The link above should allow download of my paper
“Overview of SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment) for Artists, and Critique of its Associated Technical and Other Documentation”
Andrew Oleksiuk

SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment)
I.    Introduction
Several unique events gave me the preconditions for exploring this paper. On the first day of class in EV Grad Seminar, we were given a tour of the cavern by Laura Wolf. For me the 55-panel LambdaVision display stood out. I asked whether these devices were available to us and [...]

SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment)
I.    Introduction
Several unique events gave me the preconditions for exploring this paper. On the first day of class in EV Grad Seminar, we were given a tour of the cavern by Laura Wolf. For me the 55-panel LambdaVision display stood out. I asked whether these devices were available to us and [...]

When I made my career choice to go into digital media studies at the ripe old age of 19 the media landscape looked quite different. A new invention called 800k floppy disks was going to revolutionize data storage. Color monitors with dedicated graphics cards were all the rage amongst professionals, with affordable color monitors just [...]

And if the old guard still offend
They got nothing left on which you depend
So enlist every ounce
Of your bright blood
And off with their heads
-The Shins, “Sleeping Lessons”
In The Poetics of Augmented Space Lev Manovich offers some key insights and addresses some important themes in helping us understand information space historically and in the present, [...]

You might recall our brief discussion of Natalie Jeremijenko’s and Kate Rich’ s 1996 Suicide Box, attributed to the Bureau of Inverse Technology, which used computer vision techniques to videotape people committing suicide from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Just this past Friday the Golden Gate Board of Directors voted 14-1 to construct [...]

Erkki Huhtamo’s Seeking Deeper Contact: Interactive Art as Metacommentary raises epistemological and aesthetic concerns about interactive artworks. The scope of discourse involves critical theory, literary criticism, cinema studies, media studies, and new media art. Huhtamo’s basic stance is that the nuances of interactive new media art get lost in the larger grammars of interactive media, [...]

AObd_webcam is a modification of bd_webcam using the BlobDetection library. A video camera (web cam) is required to pick up the incoming motion signal. Basically, the code of bd_webcam is modified to do the following:
1. The blobs themselves are removed from view, but are still active as the main motion source.
2. The resulting rectangles which [...]

“I dont know what it is that I like about you,
But I like it a lot.
Won’t let me hold you,
Let me feel your lovin touch”
- Communication Breakdown, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin (I), 1969
Bill Buxton’s “Multi-touch Systems I Have Known and Loved” offers an intriguing history of multi-touch and related systems. The very fact that he [...]