EV Graduate Seminar - AD508 F08

Life Casting
thepoeticsofaugmentedspace PDF

As Manovich states, the layering of information on top of architectural features is not new, as we can see, for instance, in any medieval cathedral, were biblical narrations were overlaid to the facades. Nevertheless, “The Phenomenon of the dynamic multimedia information in these environments is new”. Anyway, I would say that the speed of this [...]

The idea of architects creating their buildings around the currently available high resolution data and image space technology is very exciting. There are several novel ways I can think of where very common construction of houses can incorporate such technology and art at the same time. I feel such displays should not be restricted just [...]

Reading Lev Manovich’s text I keep thinking about the monumental scales of most of the spaces that the text talks about. It seems that the augmented space is in a lot of the examples a monumental space.
Vectorial Elevation the Raffael Lozano-Hemmer installation had always appear to me as a sad example of how a person [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

presenation-seeking-deeper-contact
In this link you will find the pdf for the presentation of Professor Huhtamo text.
By Julio Obelleiro and Alejandro Borsani.

Kevin:Back in the day, when I was a kid, before Navy Pier had an iMax with 3D movies and immersive experience rides time traveling back in the day, before the building just east of Navy Pier was known on the north bank of the river where it meets the lake suspended the letters R-I-V-E-R & [...]

Art, the first machine. In darkness it sits clumped up and incomprehensible and with the energy of light and our interactive perception it is transformed into context, meaning, and discourse.
Is there a clear cut distinction between interactivity and automation? Seemingly socially and economically yes. The automation of machines creates a supplier and a buyer. A [...]

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 [...]