Professor: Daniel Sauter Mondays/Wednesdays, 4-6:40 pm Location: Art & Architecture Building, room 3315 Class website: http://daniel-sauter.com/teaching/AD409_S09 This senior-level undergraduate (and graduate-level) course focuses on the creation of 'calm technologies' (Weiser, 1995), electronic objects that carry layers of meaning by responding audio-visually to conditions of the human body, the environment, and data networks. Enhanced industrial products, custom-designed artifacts, electronic sensors, micro-controllers, and actuators will be used to create objects that move seamlessly from the center to the periphery of our attention. The course will address how to use everyday objects as ambient interfaces to create audio-visual experiences connected to personal computers. Open-source hardware and software such as Arduino and Processing will be taught along with fundamentals of electronic circuitry, for the purpose of sensing and controlling physical environments.
This studio course is structured around a series of tutorials in the realm of programming and physical computing, culminating in a final project. Emphasis will be given to the creative development of the project, through a complete iterative design process, pursued individually or collaboratively. Tutorials and workshops are aimed to support and inform this creative process, providing modules of skill-sets and technologies. Throughout the duration of the course, participants are asked to utilize the class blog to collect and share resources and praxes. To investigate creative works in the realm of calm technologies and information arts, each participant will select a research topic, shared with the class during as an in-class research report presentation. Students will present work-in-progress during class critiques to receive qualitative feedback from the instructor and the class.
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