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- PhD student Andres Burbano will present a paper titled "Between Punched Film and the First Computers, the Work of Konrad Zuse", at the Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology in Melbourne, Australia, November 26-29.
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Abstract:
The Z3 computer made by Konrad Zuse in 1941 in Berlin is described, paying special attention to the facts and influences related with the use of punched film as a storage medium in that machine. The text includes several interventions by Horst Zuse, eldest son of Konrad Zuse.
For more information about the Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, go to: http://www.mediaarthistory.org
- MAT alumnus MarkDavid Hosale joins the faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands.
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In addition to teaching courses in new media, Dr. Hosale will be managing a research facility know as Protospace, an immersive environment for the development of virtual, nonstandard, and interactive architecture.
- Version 5.0 of the CREATE Signal Library (CSL) has been released. CSL is a cross-platform general-purpose software framework for sound synthesis and digital audio signal processing.
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CSL 5.0 is a major new release that's faster, more portable, smaller, and easier to use. It is implemented as a C++ class library to be used as a stand-alone synthesis server, or embedded as a library into other programs.
The main new feature in CSL 5.0 is that CSL now uses the JUCE framework (V 1.50) for almost all external functions, especially:
- Real-time sound I/O
- Sound file I/O
- MIDI I/O
- GUI construction
All of the source, data, and documentation files are available from the CSL home page at:
- An installation by Professor George Legrady and PhD student Angus Forbes titled "Cell Tango" to be exhibited at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, September 16 - December 13, 2009.
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George Legrady and Angus Forbes explore the intersection of user generated visual narratives and descriptive social tagging in their installation Cell Tango. The work is a dynamically evolving archive of cellphone-transmitted images contributed by participants from anywhere within the reach of cellular transmission and reception. The received images are visualized within a virtual 3D architectural structure and organized based on a number of metadata criteria such as cellphone numbers (original contract locations), carriers, time and date of transmission, and participants' contributed categories and descriptive tags. The images and accompanying descriptive categories are projected in the gallery and dynamically change as the image database grows over the course of the installation.
For more information, go to:
http://www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu/exhibitions/exhibitions_celltango.html
- Professor Marcos Novak's installation "Turbulent Topologies" to be exhibited in "Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers", an exhibition at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain. May 28 - November 15, 2009.
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"Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers" is a group exhibition curated by Aaron Betsky, comprising works of art, design, and architecture and is part of a larger curatorial project at IVAM called "Confines". The show is conceived as an exploration of borders - their reconfiguration and dissolution - in the physical, perceptual, geopolitical, and philosophical senses. Many of the selected works reexamine or subvert the notion of packaged entities in contemporary life, from the body to the building to the city and beyond. The exhibition will include the works by artists and designers like Christopher Woebken, Thukral and Tagra, Mark Price, Hyungkoo Lee, Jennifer Steinkamp, Coloco, Elliot Hundley, Franz Ackermann, Matthew Ritchie, El Anatsui, Hussein Chalayan, Alexander Ross, Ryan McGinness, Jurgen Mayer H., Fracois Roche, Los Carpinteros, Greg Lynn, Marcos Novak, Julie Mehretu, Teddy Cruz, Antony Gormley and Mark Bradford. Garanti Gallery (GG) is invited to take place in the exhibition with Turbulent Topologies of Marcos Novak.
Turbulent Topologies is an interactive, audio-visual installation comissioned by Garanti Gallery for Marcos Novak in 2008. It was first shown in Istanbul at GG and in Venice at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito.
For more information, go to Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM)
Past News
- Masters student Pehr Hovey exhibited two interactive projects at the LACMA Muse Costume Ball on October 31, 2009, in Los Angeles.
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Pehr showed his laser silhouette obelisk and a new 2-player "safecracking" game that challenged attendees to be the first to find the unknown combination to get at the halloween candy inside. The exhibit was in conjunction with Mindshare Labs mindshare-labs.com.
- PhD student Javier Villegas will present a paper about We are Stardust at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Beijing, China, October 19-23.
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For more information about the ACM Multimedia conference go to: www.acmmm09.org
- An article on George Legrady's exhibition "Cell Tango" at Wellesley College appeared in the Boston Globe, October 9, 2009.
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Link to Boston Globe article titled Can you see me now?
- The AlloSphere is featured in an article by Scientific American, September 15, 2009.
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An article entitled "A 360-Degree Virtual Reality Chamber Brings Researchers Face to Face with Their Data" appeared in the online edition of Scientific American, September 15, 2009.
Link: www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=allosphere-ucsb
- Multimedia Engineering student Pehr Hovey was invited to showcase his laser silhouette project from Professor George Legrady's Spring 2009 class at Mindshare LA on August 20, 2009.
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Mindshare is a monthly event in downtown Los Angeles drawing people from diverse backgrounds for an evening of speakers, multimedia installations and networking.
For more information, go to www.mindshare.la
- PhD student Anιl Çamcι has won a prestigious Audio Engineering Society Educational Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
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The Audio Engineering Society, now in its sixth decade, is the only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology.
For more information, go to: www.aes.org
- PhD student Pablo Colapinto receives prestigious Olivia Long Converse Graduate Fellowship.
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MAT PhD Student Pablo Colapinto has received the prestigious Olivia Long Converse Graduate Fellowship for graduate students researching terrestrial plants in Mexico. As an expert of animated processes and systems analysis, with ongoing contributions to the study of mutation, emergence, and pattern, Mr. Colapinto's topic is "Morphogenesis of the Mexican Solanaceae". The award is for $16,000, which pays for travel and research costs.
- PhD Student Michael Winter Receives prestigious Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship.
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MAT PhD Student Michael Winter has been awarded a prestigious Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship for Fall 2009. The award includes payment of in-state fees and health insurance plus a $6,000 stipend for one quarter. The award is meant to allow the student to focus exclusively on the PhD dissertation in this period. Working under Professor Clarence Barlow (Music and MAT), Mr. Winter's dissertation is entitled "Structural Metrics" and concerns the application of mathematical graph theory to the analysis and generation of music compositions.
- Professor George Legrady's Seattle Public Library visualization commission to be featured at The Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures, at the Center for Architecture, New York, NY. Opens May 15, 6 - 8pm.
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What is infrastructure? For much of the twentieth century, the answer to this question was guided by the ideology of functionalist urbanism, a school of thought that said that all healthy cities served four major needs - work, housing, recreation, and transportation. Today, we no longer take this view for granted, for it is a perspective that makes no provisions for community, identity, or history.
The Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures documents a series of contemporary experiments in planning, architecture, and design, highlighting the role that communication, participation, and the sharing of knowledge can play in informing our understanding of the urban fabric. This exhibition questions inherited conceptions of infrastructure and explores how shifting understandings of community, education, and energy are reshaping our attitudes toward city planning today.
For more information, go to Upcoming Exhibitions, The Center for Architecture, AIA
- MAT alumnus MarkDavid Hosale teams up with "Hyperbody" at the Delft University of Technology and helps create the "Interactive HyperWall".
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A team of researchers that includes MAT alumnus MarkDavid Hosale have created the "Interactive HyperWall" at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. As a prototype for an emotive wall, the Interactive HyperWall is an important step towards the development of an emotive architecture that is no longer a static backdrop for its users but a key component in a dynamic customizable environment. An emotive wall is a wall that responds to the user, a wall that has a character, a wall that can move because it wants to. The emotive Interactive HyperWall is composed of seven separate wall pieces that display real time behavior by swinging its body back and forth, displaying patterns of light on its skin, and projecting localized sound.
For more information, go to InteractiveWall: Prototype For An Emotive Wall. There is also
a video of the "Interactive HyperWall".
- MAT alumnus Garry Kling has been appointed the position of Multimedia Technician at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
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MAT alumnus Garry Kling (MA Electronic Music and Sound Design, 2004) has been appointed the position of Multimedia Technician at the soon-to-be-opened 190,000 square foot Musical Instrument Museum (The MIM) in Phoenix, Arizona. He is in charge of identifying, acquiring, and editing audio and video material for the exhibits and the permanent research archive. Once the museum opens, he will be in charge of live audio and video production, as well as assisting in the development of an in-house audio/video label for world music, for which he will be the executive producer.
For more information about the Musical Instrument Museum, go to http://www.themim.org
- PhD student Javier Villegas will present his paper titled "The Autonomous Duck: Exploring the Possibilities of a Markov Chain Model in Animation", at the 2009 International Conference on Arts and Technology, Yi-Lan, Taiwan, September 24-25.
For more information, go to: http://www.artsit.org
- PhD students Wesley Smith, Graham Wakefield, and Salman Bakht to present papers at the 2009 International Computer Music Conference in Montreal, Canada, August 16-21, 2009.
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PhD students Wesley Smith, Graham Wakefield, and Salman Bakht, and Professor Clarence Barlow will present at the 2009 International Computer Music Conference in Montreal, Canada. Graham Wakefield and Wesley Smith will present their paper "Augmenting Computer Music with Just-in-time Compilation". Salman Bakht will present the paper "PAPAGEI: An Extensible Automatic Accompaniment System for Live Instrumental Improvisation", co-authored by Professor Clarence Barlow.
- PhD student Salman Bakht to present his paper "Noise, Nonsense, and the New Media Soundscape" and his composition "Santa Barbara Soundscape" at the 2009 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium in Toronto, Canada, August 6-8, 2009.
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For more information about the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, go to: cec.concordia.ca/events/TES/2009.
- Professor Marcos Novak will be participating in BEYOND MEDIA's Visions: 9th International Festival for Architecture and Media, which takes place from July 9 - 17 in Florence, Italy.
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BEYOND MEDIA: Visions Symposium
The symposium, that takes place during the BEYOND MEDIA festival and is curated by Pietro Valle, explores the theme VISIONS. It investigates imagination and visionariety in six thematic areas: architecture, art, literature, the global city, communication and construction techniques. For each of them there is a round table discussion with three or four guests and a moderator. A multidisciplinary approach with international guests will investigate how visions take shape in the contemporary world and if they are stilll able to offer a different view of reality.
On July 11 @ 6pm: Vision and communication, new interactive models
Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University)
Derrick De Kerckhove (McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology)
Marcos Novak (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Antonio Caronia, chair
Communication seems to be the end and not the means of every recent form of representation, being it artistic, political or social. How is it possible to make its creative function accessible to the larger public? Could communication initiate projects that propose the transformation of the existing world? Could it be critical enough to confront a system that equates every expressive form to consumerist media standards?
Speakers:
Beatriz Colomina, Derrick De Kerckhove, Marcos Novak, Antonio Caronia (moderator)
For more information, go to: www.beyondmedia.it
- PhD students Haru Ji and Graham Wakefield's "Artificial Nature; Fluid Space" project will be on exhibit at the A.L.I.C.E Museum 2009, May 1 - June 21, at SOMA, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea.
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Artificial Nature: Fluid Space opened on May 1st, 2009 at SOMA (Seoul Olympic Museum of Art) as part of the A.L.I.C.E. MUSEUM 2009, Seoul, Korea. The A.L.I.C.E. Museum 2009 is organized by Art Center Nabi. It consists of creative perception, learning, and action for Artistic, Lively, Intelligent, Creative, and Eco-friendly Kids. Artificial Nature is exhibited under the category "Creative Action – Ecology and Cosmic Vision". The exhibition runs from May 1st to June 21, 2009.
- PhD student Wes Smith is teaching an advanced Jitter workshop at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea, June 22 - 26.
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For more information, go to:
www.richarddudas.com/hanyang/workshops_en.html
- MAT graduate student Salman Bakht and Music graduate student Christopher Jette received the "Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Award" from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB.
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The award is for development of an art project called "LovelyWeather" in the 2009-2010 academic year. LovelyWeather combines Internet art, soundscape composition, audio-visual work, and sculpture to explore the relationship between artist, audience, art, and environment.
- Professor Lisa Jevbratt is awarded a 2009 Creative Capital Grant for her work titled "Zoomorph".
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MAT graduate student Javier Villegas is working with Professor Jevbratt on the project.
- MAT graduate student Aaron McLeran's work on the generative music for the computer game "Spore", has been nominated by the Game Audio Network Guild for "Best Interactive Score".
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The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, March 26th, at the
2009 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, California.About the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) : www.audiogang.org
- MAT graduate student Rama Hoetzlein presents his work at the Interactive Games and Graphics (i3D) and the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2009).
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Research in fluid dynamics on "Interactive Water Streams using Sphere Scan Conversion" will be presented at Interactive Games and Graphics (i3D) and the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2009) by MAT graduate student Rama Hoetzlein.
- MAT graduate students Haru Ji and Graham Wakefield will present their work "Artificial Nature" at EvoStar 2009, in Tübingen, Germany, April 15 - 17.
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For more information about "Artificial Nature", visit: artificialnature.mat.ucsb.edu.
For more information about EvoStar 2009, visit: evostar.na.icar.cnr.it.
- Professor George Legrady will present a lecture titled "Aesthetic and Data Visualization" for the /@rts Lecture Series at Princeton University, Wednesday, March 23.
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Professor Legrady's presentation will trace the intersection of data organization and visualization in a number of the artist's projects such as "We are Stardust" in collaboration with the NASA Spitzer Science Center, at the California Institute of Technology (2008); "Pockets Full of Memories" (2001-2007) inaugurated at the Centre Pompidou, and "Making Visible the Invisible" (2005) a public arts commission for the Seattle Central Library, and the Cell Tango (Global Collaborative Visual Mapping Archive - 2007) visual archive exhibited at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. These projects consist of visualizations generated by custom designed software that dynamically organize data. Legrady will discuss his research and production work in data visualization with the Experimental Visualization Lab of the Media Arts and Technology Program at UC Santa Barbara.
- The current MAT exhibition "Scalable Relations" is reviewed by the Santa Barbara Independent newspaper.
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Link: www.independent.com/news/2009/feb/25/emscalable-relationsem
- Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin will be a featured speaker at TED 2009, to be held February 3-7, in Long Beach, California.
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Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin will be a featured speaker at TED 2009, to be held February 3-7. Her presentation will focus on the collaboration among artists, scientists, and engineers to design and build one of the largest scientific and artistic instruments in the world - the AlloSphere.
Link: Watch the video.
Link: TED Conference 2009.
- MAT PhD student August Black exhibits his installation "Der Gedankenprojektor" at the ICC in Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 6 - Feb. 28, 2009.
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"Der Gedankenprojektor" (the thought projector) is an installation developed by Alien Productions (Martin Breindl, Andrea Sodomka, Norbert Math, and August Black). Based on the notes of Nikolai Tesla, the installation uses a professional-grade fundus camera to take a picture of the back of a visitor's eyeball. From these pictures, a visitor's "thoughts" are revealed on a projected screen in the gallery.
- The AlloSphere Research Facility launches new website.
- January 22, 2009.
- The AlloSphere Research Facility launches a new website. The new address is www.allosphere.ucsb.edu. All of the images used for the top banner are real-time captures of Allosphere projects.
- New website launched. This one!
- January 6, 2009.
- We are pleased to launch this new website, and will be adding more content to it in the days and weeks to come. Design by: Jeungah Kim (MAT PhD student), Matthew Turk (Dept. Chair), Larry Zins (IT Manager), and artistic consultation from George Legrady (MAT professor).
- "Enter the AlloSphere", an article by the SB Independent featured in the Nov. 6-13 issue, 2008.
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A front-page article by D.J. Palladino that appeared in the Santa Barbara Independent weekly newspaper (Vol. 22, No. 147) November 6-13, 2008.
Link: www.independent.com/news/2008/nov/06/enter-allosphere.
- MAT graduate students Rama Hoetzlein and Andres Burbano present their works at "Version Beta", Geneva Switzerland, Oct. 31 - Dec. 15, 2008.
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Version Beta, a new media exhibition in Geneve, Switzerland by the Center for the Contemporary Image, running from Oct 31st-Dec 15th 2008, presents works by MAT Graduate students Rama Hoetzlein, "Social Evolution", and Andres Burbano, "Two Cycles".
Link: www.version-beta.ch.