2008W


Instructors:


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MAT 256 Visual Processes Through Algorithms
Explorations in Arts-Engineering Projects

Jerry Gibson ECE/MAT;
George Legrady MAT/Art

Salman Bakht



Wk 2 - Experimentation & Waves



Various projects that build on the organization of discreet units to result in sequence of events.

Ned Kahn

Technorama Facade - The Swiss Science Center, Winterthur, Switzerland. 2002

In 2002, Ned Kahn worked with the staff of Technorama, the major science center in Switzerland, and their architects, Durig and Rami, to create a facade for the building which is composed of thousands of aluminum panels that move in the air currents and reveal the complex patterns of turbulence in the wind. The facade is visible from the large urban plaza in front of the museum
Aegis HYpoSurface

This project was developed for a competition for an interactive art-work for the foyer of The Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre. The piece is a facetted metallic surface that has potential to deform physically in response to electronic stimuli from the environment (movement, sound, light,etc). Driven by a bed of 896 pneumatic pistons, the dynamic 'terrains' are generated as real-time calculations.

Reiser + Sumimoto

Prize winning architectural proposal: "Watergarden for Jeff Kipnis"
Tony Cragg

Sculptor who assembles artworks from found objects [plastic]
Block Jam
 Block Jam is a musical interface controlled by the arrangement of 25 tangible blocks. By arranging the blocks musical phrases and sequences are created, allowing multiple users to play and collaborate. The system takes advantage of both graphical and tangible user interfaces. Each block has a visual display and a combination of a gestural input and a click-able input. Each Block metaphorically contains a sound group that can be chosen via the gestural input, the click-able input changes a block functionally. Thus, musically complex and engaging configurations can be rapidly assembled.

Bill Fontana
Harmonic Bridge - This sound sculpture will explore the musicality of sounds hidden within the structure of the London Millennium Foot Bridge. This bridge is alive with vibrations caused by the bridge’s responses to the collective energy of footsteps, load and wind. This sonic world is inaudible to the ear when walking over this bridge. It will be revealed by the use of the accelerometers (which are vibration sensors) that are listening to the inner dynamic motions of the bridge. Harmonic Bridge will be realized by installing a network of live accelerometers on different parts of the Bridge in order to acoustically map in real time its hidden musical life. The live sonic mapping will be translated into an acoustic sculpture by carefully rendering sounds from this listening network into a spatial matrix of loudspeakers.

Info | Video
Olafur Elliasson
Artist who works with natural phenomena video |