EV Graduate Seminar - AD508 F08

Here is a draft of my writing born from discussions we had in class.  I think you can read hints of these claims in my article responses on this blog.  If time allows, I will also include some materials from my work-in-progress “community” game. I stopped the writing a little short, as there are still [...]

Community Game

Background: I’ve been working on a series of play concepts that work against the ideologies apparent in commercial game designs. This series of play scenarios will endeavor to teach a different set of values than what most games teach. This public space, electronic toy will seek to present community and giving as its primary [...]

I am more than excited to once again find the intersection of the interactive and theatrical. Anecdote, this is the perspective from which I come – BA in English (concentration drama) and fundamental interest in HCI. Carnegie Melon’s Entertainment Technology Center was also started with a Drama professor et al – it’s how I really [...]

Is the multimedia information new, or is it merely the technology? Borrowing Lev’s own examples of churches, there is plenty of evidence of specific design meant to create specific multi-media effects (i.e. sight and sound effects) through smart use of shape and scale. The projections of sound and the projections of shadow and light are [...]

Endeavoring a cultural “critique of the nature of interactivity” is no small labor. But Huhtam does attempt at inter disciplinarily aware artistic examination of the history through a pseudo-anthropological method. As required, there are plenty of examinations of the status-quo definitions, integration of historical theory in media arts, and the occasional deconstruction of process, relationship [...]

Exercise 1:
Using blog detection, a couple of animated butterflies move on the screen. The butterflies are colored based on their location on the screen. The butterflies also produce a cooing sound when they move. The sound is panned between the left and right channels based n the location of the butterfly producing the sound. I [...]

Hey guys, here are the slides from my presentation . . .
http://presentations.lgrace.com/Touch%20History%20and%20Design.pdf

The article is effective as a survey of touch technology. It reads much like an introduction to the user centered concerns of designing, and to a lesser extent, implementing a multi-touch solution. I find Buxton’s assertions very much complimentary to user-interface design tenets. His notion that everything is best for something and worst [...]

I found the article to be an easy to consume overview of the artistic uses, technology and practical implementation details for computer vision. The information was a good reinforcement of works we had discussed (e.g. the Sorting Damen) or techniques that I had come across in my own research. From experience, I found OpenCV to [...]