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Augmented Reality and Dance
Julia Litman-Cleper, SMArchS Degree Candidate
Enrollment: Sign-up by January 14
Sign-up by 01/14
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants at individual sessions, but participation is required!
This course will introduce easily accessible computer vision, augmented reality and virtual reality technologies. We also look into avant-garde dance and music and contemporary projects in the context of alternative ways of interfacing with computers. Choosing the system of their preference, students will program and choreograph their own interactive performance and we will collaboratively present the work as a final mixed-reality performance event. No previous expertise is necessary.
Sponsor(s): Architecture
Contact: Julia Litman-Cleper, julialc4@mit.edu
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Jan/15 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 7-429 Long Lounge, Bring your computer |
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Jan/22 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 7-429 Long Lounge, Bring your computer |
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Jan/29 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 7-429 Long Lounge, Bring your computer |
Julia Litman-Cleper - SMArchS Degree Candidate
Beginning Exploratory Programming
Nick Montfort, Associate Professor of Digital Media
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Jan/07 | Wed | 10:00AM-05:00PM | E15-335, lunch provided |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 15 participants
This one-day course is an introduction to programming that requires no previous experience. Through practice, we consider how to think with computation, how computation and media interact, and how computing is part of culture. Programming is introduced as a way to iteratively design artworks and humanities projects so that one can discover the direction of the project during programming. The idea of exploratory programming differs from the instrumental programming done to a pre-determined specification; beginning programmers, as well as others, can benefit from this different perspective. Students will develop and share several short projects during the day, will modify existing code, and will learn some programming fundamentals. The medium we will focus on will be text, but students completing the course should be better prepared to use computing with other media as well.
Students should bring their own notebook computers running any typical OS: GNU/Linux, Windows, or OS X. Windows and OS X, installing Anaconda with Python 2.7 <http://continuum.io/downloads> is required before the session begins. GNU/Linux users, please install iPython notebook. OS X users will need a text editor set up for use with plain text files (not TextEdit!) and, if one is not installed, should install TextWrangler. To continue after the course, installing Firefox and Processing is also recommended.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Nick Montfort, nickm@NICKM.COM
Bollywood Bootcamp
Parnika Agrawal, Radhika Marathe
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Jan/11 | Sun | 02:00PM-04:00PM | TBD, Dress in comfortable clothes and shoes |
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Jan/18 | Sun | 02:00PM-04:00PM | TBD, Dress in comfortable clothes and shoes |
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Jan/25 | Sun | 02:00PM-04:00PM | TBD, Dress in comfortable clothes and shoes |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: None
Ever felt envious of your friends' thumkas in the Bhangra dance team? Ever wished you could twirl like your desi friends to some Garba beats? Here's your chance to show them you got the moves too!
Learn to groove on some funky Bollywood beats. We will be teaching 1 song per weekend, no commitment necessary! Drop-ins are welcome. Come to check out our first weekend bootcamp on Jan 11. Location TBD
Please signup here if you would like to get notifications: http://signup.mit.edu/2122315630
Contact: Parnika Agrawal, PARNIKA@MIT.EDU
MetaPiano: a Collective Sound Sculpture Experiment
Seth Avecilla, Fabrication Associate, Floor van de Velde
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Join us in MetaPiano where we will deconstruct, reconstruct, and build an entirely new sound sculpture from two vintage upright pianos to build a new sound sculpture. During four days, this hands-on class will build on students’ pre-existing skills and knowledge while introducing new fabrication skills.
Concepts and processes of sculptural form as related to sound and acoustics will be introduced through daily, short presentations and screenings. MetaPiano offers a chance to work collaboratively with students from different disciplines – artists, engineers, designers, etc. – to integrate kinetics, sculpture, and sound in an experiment that will result in a newly imagined, interactive sound sculpture.
This workshop is primarily geared towards students with art, architecture, design, or engineering backgrounds, however ALL are welcome!
The instructors:
Seth Avecilla teaches hands-on skills as Fabrication Associate at the Program in Art, Culture and Technology. His background includes mixed media sculpture, architectural-scale installations, and early stage prototyping.
South African artist Floor van de Velde creates installations and audio-visual environments that combine sound, video, electronics and light. A recent graduate from the Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT, Floor currently teaches installation art at MassArt and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Email Seth Avecilla to register.
Sponsor(s): Architecture
Contact: Seth Avecilla, E14-251F, 617 258-0771, SETHCIM@MIT.EDU
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Jan/26 | Mon | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E14-251, wear shop clothes - nothing dangling, not precious |
Seth Avecilla - Fabrication Associate, Floor van de Velde
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Jan/27 | Tue | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E14-251, wear shop clothes - nothing dangling, not precious |
Seth Avecilla - Fabrication Associate, Floor van de Velde
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Jan/28 | Wed | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E14-251, wear shop clothes - nothing dangling, not precious |
Seth Avecilla - Fabrication Associate, Floor van de Velde
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Jan/29 | Thu | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E14-251, wear shop clothes - nothing dangling, not precious |
Seth Avecilla - Fabrication Associate, Floor van de Velde
Using Images in your work: A look at copyright, fair use, and open licensing
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing, Copyright & Licensing
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Jan/21 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Please email efinnie@mit.edu to reserve a spot.
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 25 participants
Prereq: none
This session will help you assess whether use of a particular image requires permission or can be used under “fair use,” will provide suggesions about how to find images already flagged for reuse, and will touch briefly upon good practices for citing images. Directed at authors of theses, journal articles, blogs, and other scholarly writing.
Presented by Ellen Finnie Duranceau, copyright contact and Program Manager for Scholarly Publishing, Copyright, & Licensing in the MIT Libraries.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU
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