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Media Environment Unit Two – AR Systems

2011-08-27T07:10:00.000-07:00

David Hall "Augmented 2008"

Media Environment Unit Two – AR Systems

Augmented Environment Concepts and Development

Converging Media and Environment Experimental integration.

Preface
This class will be a production design and concept class with an eye on new and future user experience ( UX ) within the city. As ubiquitous sensors, mobile phones, media facades, social networks and entertainment technologies all start to converge we are seeing a new type of media integration into our daily lives in the city. In the beginning what appeared to be practical tools of information and communication ( mobile phones, the web,etc ) are now being utilised as more of a social entertainment medium than anything else.

Some educated speculations about the hardware of the near future could be, rapid prototyped architecture ( printed buildings ) cheap and affordable media facades, spacial interactive projections ( low cost holographs ), embedded silicon chips in the human body ( mobile phones, IDs and computers integrated into the human body ), retinal projection displays, to name but a few. So the questions stands what can we as media designers do with all this change and connectedness given that it will be used for new entertainments etc etc.

This project could be graphics for new architecture and media facades, interactive environments, new forms of signage and information displays, new forms of graffiti, new entertainment spaces such as night clubs and new forms of fashion etc.

We will develop visual concepts based in a probable technological development. The concept which delivers your own design of Augmented Reality Environment in the future. The final output will be a movie or piece of motion graphics developed by the production design process.

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Augmented Environment – Part One – SetUp -

Duration 2 weeks

As part of a systematic approach to documentation and presentation during this semester I want each student to setup and design the following.

1- A blogspot blog specifically for this class.
2- A vimeo account ( if you don’t have one already )
3- A pdf template design that we will use as a final document for each stage. ( this will be embedded in your blog for download.
4- Upload a brief description of yourself with ONE drawing, photo or graphic of one of your best pieces of work.

Please think carefully about the design of your blogs etc The minimal approach is the way to go.

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Augmented Environment – Part Two – Research -

Duration 2 weeks

Please research and think about the present state of augmented reality, environments and fashion.

It may help to choose an area such as…

1 – Architecture and interiors
2 – Signage and Street ( Public space )
3 – Fashion
4 – Games and Entertainment
5 – Art and Installation

Presentation – Drawings, photos and initial experiments.

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Augmented Environment – Part Three - Concept Generation -

Duration 3 weeks

Here we will brainstorm ideas that will be the basis of your project. This process will include, location scouting, photography, drawing, test shooting DV, concept drawing and basic 3D.

As we are thinking about concepts and not practical development, we will develop your ideas via a production design process. This basically means the following steps..

1 – Visual Research
2 – Drawings and photographs
3 – 3D sketching and visual overlays
4 - Detailing 3D and Visualisation

During this stage I will demonstrate how to use syntheys, maya setup and rendering, HDRI techniques, location shooting and DV etc

You do not need to be an expert in 3D or any other programs or skills. But you will need a basic knowledge to be able to do this assignment.

Presentation – Drawings, photos and initial experiments.

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Augmented Environment – Part Four - Final Development -
Duration 7 weeks

Here I will teach the basics of CG and DV integration.

Software will include, Syntheyes, HDRI light studio, maya rendering and texturing. We will utilise all of these for our final movie output.

This will be the final development and presentation of your project.You will make a final movie of your work and present that as well as making a process movie about the construction and meaning of your work

Presentation – Drawings, photos and initial experiments.

Final output of this project will be photographs, renderings and movies.

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Augmented Environment – Part Five - Output Synergy -
Duration 1 week

Collation of movies, photos, drawings etc into your presentation formats. ie blog, pdf and vimeo integration.

NOTE – You do need basic 3D skills for this project. You will however be required to know some 2D animation techniques (i.e. After effects, Photoshop and maybe flash.)

David Hall Car Park Graff 2005

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Media Art Unit Two – Motion Graphics and Interaction

2011-08-27T07:09:00.000-07:00

Media Art Unit Two – Motion Graphics and Interaction

Visual Development and interaction with Focus on MS Kinect

Preface

This semesters Media Art class will be split into two distinct sections.

Visual development and then practical integration into an instalation.

The visual developmet section will be divided into themes for initial research. You will choose one theme for the whole semester.

So you will choose one of the following..

Option One – Abstract graphics and Audio

This will be an approach looking at the principles of audio waves and effects for visual development. Its more important to focus on the physical and sientific concepts of sound and how it manifests in the physical world. Cymatics would be one example of this.

Option Two – Human Desire and attraction

This will be a more emotional approach looking at fetishism and fashion for example.

Option Three – Z-Depth and motion

Here you can concentrate on the practical use of a kinect device to generate z-deph movies. The project here will be about technical problem solving and environmet experiment. Resulting in a movie entirely generated by infra red zdeph information.

As well as conceptualising and visual development this project will also be about how we can use the kenect device in unusual ways. That means not just using it for its intended purpose of translating user motion into abstract graphics ( person waves their arms around and this results in a pretty motion trail on a screen or projection ). But new ways of inegration the device.

Motion Graphics and Interaction – Part One - Duration 2 weeks

As part of a systematic approach to documentation and presentation during this semester I want each student to setup and design the following.

1- A blogspot blog specifically for this class.

2- A vimeo account ( if you don’t have one already )

3- A pdf template design that we will use as a final document for each stage. ( this will be embedded in your blog for download.

4- Upload a breif description of yourself with ONE drawing, photo or graphic of one of your best pieces of work.

Motion Graphics and Interaction – Part Two - Duration 4 weeks

Please choose one of the thematic areas listed above and research that area.This means looking at possible directions in that area and brainstorming how you can creativly develop them.

Presentation will be in the form of phtographs, drawings etc uploaded to your blog. Its important to also write about the project and theme you are researching. This means analysis of your discoveries through written text.

Its important to be able to contructivly analyse in the written form as this will be a major part of your thesis.

Motion Graphics and Interaction – Part Three- Duration 5 weeks

Practical development of your ideas and concepts.

This will be a research by practical development process. That meas doing experiments with hardware and visuals

Motion Graphics and Interaction – Part Four- Duration 3 weeks

This will be a practical approach to instalation. Your project should be finish in part three. This final part will be the process of how we can install this work in a gallery.

As you know this class is related to the green growth project and as such will will need to install to complet the work.

IMPORTANT. This class is a follow on from last semeter with the added discipline of the Konect device. However you do not need to have done media Art One in order to do this class. As long as you have some practical skill and are willing to learn this class will be open to everybody.

Links -
OpenNI
http://code.google.com/p/tryplex/wiki/Installation

LibFreenect (OpenKinect)
https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect

Microsoft Kinect SDK
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/

Tuio
https://code.google.com/p/tuiokinect/

Processing Libraries
http://www.shiffman.net/p5/kinect/

Osceleton
http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2011/02/16/skeleton-tracking-with-kinect-and-processing/

OpenFrameworks
http://www.openframeworks.cc/
https://github.com/ofTheo/ofxKinect

Cinder
http://libcinder.org/
http://forum.libcinder.org/topic/new-kinect-support

Unity3d
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MJ205lyz5E
https://github.com/OpenNI/UnityWrapper

Brekel
http://www.brekel.com/?page_id=155

JCs Kinect Graffiti
http://www.vimeo.com/24665893

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Media Art and Environment - Hongik 2011

2011-06-12T03:20:00.001-07:00

Media Environment Unit One – Media Space

2011-02-16T10:15:00.000-08:00

Space, Interaction and 3/4G mobile phones.
Jongno Elf by Dave Hall 2005

Preface
This will be an introduction class to the concepts of motion graphics, space design for next and present generation mobile phones.

Project >>

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Part One

Media Space – Part One - Duration 3 weeks.
QuickTime Virtual reality
This will be a very quick intro project. Well will spend a couple of weeks making some QTVR (QuickTime Virtual reality) movies. QuickTime Virtual Reality movies are technically very easy to produce and provide a first step towards interaction and movies.

Usually QTVR movies are used for location advertisements on the web etc. Here however I want people to think more broadly about creative was to modify the image. At this point please make a blog and vimeo account specifically for this class.

Presentation - Will be an online demo of your QTVR experiments.

Little Planet Club
Little Planet Movie

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Digital and Analogue Graffing by Dave Hall 2005

Part Two

Media Space – Part Two - Duration 5 weeks.
Graphics, Graffiti and Architecture.
As this is a stepping stone project towards project Three (see below). We will try digital graffiti and its many forms. This could be 3D or Projection or something entirely different depending on each student’s skill level. The main objective is the use space and graphics within the confines of architecture and the city.

Presentation - Will be given showing photographs, models and movies of your project. Final presentation will be the process and story uploaded to your blog.

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Part Three

Media Space – Part Three- Duration 5 weeks.
Space Design and graphics for 3G mobile phones
This will be where we test environments using the program Unity. We will make graphic interactions rather than a game. These projects will be uploaded to your android or I phone using Unity3D.

Presentation - Will be given using your 3G phone and your project tests.
Final presentation will be the process and story uploaded to your blog.

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NOTE – Project three may change depending on the arrival of a 3D printer I have ordered.

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Project Three Options >
Please choose ONE of the following for the final 7 week Project.
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Option One _ Audio Driven Motion Graphics.
David Hall - Audio dynamic structure 2006

Here we are going to construct a movie based on the concept sound driven graphics.
ie - The image will be driven by the soundtrack.
I expect you to construct the audio track first then use with to create the key points of the graphic motion. It can be real time or pre - rendered.
Some Details here...http://opiumblue.blogspot.com/2008/08/motion-graphic-studio.html
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Option Two _ Form and Animation.
David Hall - Anim Forms 2007

Here we are going to construct an object based on audio animation.
First we will generate the audio signal then we will use this to create an animation which will be printed ( via laser cutting ) to create an object.

We could call this a 3D font.
Final output and details here...http://opiumblue.blogspot.com/2009/08/digital-form-and-fabrication.html
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Option Three _ Zdepth and Motion.
David Hall - Z organics "the traveller" 20010

Here we are going to construct a movie based on the concept of the Z and zdepth.
I expect it to be 50% real footage and 50% CG
Final output and details here...http://opiumguide.blogspot.com/

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Media Art Unit One - Augmented Reality

2011-02-16T09:56:00.001-08:00

Object and Architecture Mapping

SCINTILLATION by Xavier Chassaing

This amazing piece of film was made by Xavier Chassaing using a photographic process combined with stop motion. The result although innovative and spectacular requires no 3D process (i.e. Maya or 3D studio max etc). As a result the film has a less “constructed “feel and more of a surreal quality.

Preface
In previous semesters I have tried mapping as a process from conceptualization in Maya then flat plane development then printing. These objects as you know where then constructed and an animation made in Maya..

As the object in virtual space and the object in real life where to all intense and purposes exactly the same (with a few analogue errors). The animation was then projected on the surface to achieve the augmentation

Although it worked well, so much time was spent on process and construction that we did not have much time for animation and interaction with the final installation. So this time I plan to concentrate on the image, motion and narrative side of the project. Which basically means we will use real world “found” objects, architecture, people (think augmented fashion) etc as the basis for the work. The primary objective of this project is to find a narrative bridge between the physical and virtual worlds. Every object or building for example has a history of process, we could speculate about that through the mapping of images or we could think about the future of objects and architecture and apply the same rules.

Project >

Part One>>

Object and Architecture Mapping – Part One - Duration 2 weeks.
Please research a familiarize yourself with mapping techniques and theories.
Set up a blog and vimeo account specifically for this class. Find and show examples and try to analyze the process of visual augmentation.

Presentation – will be collected images and movies with your written analysis.

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Part Two>>

Object and Architecture Mapping – Part Two - Duration 3 weeks.
Here we will conceptualize a narrative for projection and find a specific object or group of objects that you will use. The most important thing here is to tell a story or create a mood, this at present in mapping is usually abstract motion graphics, if we can avoid this surface trap then all the better.

Presentation – Drawings, photos and initial experiments.

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Part Three>>

Object and Architecture Mapping – Part Three - Duration 3 weeks.
First tests of the final work. Having found your object etc we will concentrate of the process of animation.

Presentation – Drawings, photos and initial experiments.

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Part Four>>

Object and Architecture Mapping – Part Four - Duration 4 weeks.
Final animations and development.

This will be the final development and presentation of your project.
You will make a final movie of your work and present that as well as making a process movie about the construction and meaning of your work

Presentation – Drawings, photos and initial experiments.
As this is the spring semester I will choose 2 or 3 of the best projects for exhibition.

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NOTE – You do not need any 3D skills for this project. You will however be required to know some 2D animation techniques (i.e. After effects, Photoshop and maybe flash.)

INFO and Links
http://www.v2.nl/events/international-symposium-augmented-reality

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Exhibition "C.14 Dark Cloud" 2011.01.31 - 2011.02.13

2011-01-30T23:13:00.000-08:00

Dark Cloud and the Long GoodBye V1.02 from OpiumBlue on Vimeo.

Dark Cloud and the Long GoodBye FINAL from OpiumBlue on Vimeo.

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Performace 2010.12.14 "EX ''

2011-01-02T20:36:00.000-08:00

This years end of semester performance Poster by Dahye and opiumblue

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Experimental Interaction Performace 2010.12.14 from OpiumBlue on Vimeo.

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Exhibition "C.13 BLOW" 2010.12.16 - 2010.12.30

2010-12-16T01:45:00.001-08:00

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36366877 from OpiumBlue on Vimeo.

Exhibition "C.12 42LU35X2" 2010.12.07 - 2010.12.13

2010-12-06T17:20:00.000-08:00

Exhibition "C.11 Cymatics" 2010.12.02 - 2010.12.05

2010-12-03T10:34:00.000-08:00

Cymatics from OpiumBlue on Vimeo.

Exhibition "C.10 Anamorphic Architecture" 2010.10.29 - 2010.11.11

2010-10-29T18:14:00.000-07:00

Process -
Each artists developed low polygon forms from basic primitives and through a series of deformations and replications produced a structure with minimal data.
These structures where then developed (made planar) in order for them to be printed two dimensionally.

This enabled the surface to be re-constructed backto its original 3D form. As the object exists in 3D in both digital and analogue form this allows us to project animations and graphic back onto the object from the digital version with
relative accuracy. In effect the form exists in digital and
analogue spaces simultaneously.

The analogue and digital spaces are converging into what has become known as Augmented Space or Augmented Reality. This convergence will accelerate in the near future as LED architectural surface technology and motor
actuators become cheaper.

This is the work from David Hall's studio class in IDAS Hongik.

The exhibition will run from October 29th 2010 until November 11th. At the corner gallery, Samchung Dong, Seoul, Korea.

The corner Gallery location >>

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Exhibition - "C.9(2) Chemical Wedding" 2010.09.29 - 2010.10.15

2010-09-29T08:05:00.000-07:00

A duel exhibition from artists Jinwoo Chung and OpiumBlue.

Based on the chemistry of sent and smell, each screen ( and computer ) can be interactively controlled by any mobile phone dialing into the installation. The keypad modifies a script that was originally driven by the chemical constituents of smell.

The exhibition will run from September 29th 2010 until October 15th. At the corner gallery, Samchung Dong, Seoul, Korea.

The corner Gallery location >>

Chemical Wedding Sequence Opiumblue.

Chemical Wedding Sequence Jinwoo Chung.

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Experimental Interaction Hongik 2010

2010-08-31T09:47:00.001-07:00

Experimental Interaction
(Physical media)
Preface and Introduction

Cymatics is the study of visible sound and vibration, typically on the surface of a plate, diaphragm or membrane.

Direct ocular viewing of vibrations involves exciting inorganic matter such as particulate matter, pastes (both magnetic and non magnetic) and liquids under the influence of sound, although recent research has extended the range of media to include organic matter and the range of viewing has been extended to include the light microscope.
The generic term for this field of science is the study of 'modal phenomena,’ named 'Cymatics' by Hans Jenny, a Swiss medical doctor and a pioneer in this field. The word 'Cymatics' derives from the Greek 'kuma' meaning 'billow' or 'wave,' to describe the periodic effects that sound and vibration has on matter.
The apparatus employed can be simple, such as a Chladni Plate (a flat brass plate excited by a violin bow) or advanced such as the CymaScope, a laboratory instrument that makes visible the inherent geometries within sound and music.
From wiki

This class and projects will be about the exploration of audio driven patterns and graphics with an intention to create an instalation.

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Project One
Circuit Bending and Electronics
Duration 3 weeks

Each person will buy two or more battery powered electronic
audio devices. (Must be battery powered). One will be a
speak and spell machine the other will be up to you.

Week One – Introduction
Week Two – Disassemble and initial tests
Week Three – Adding components for control and interaction.

Note. As well as buying electronic audio devices you will also need soldering irons and various other components.

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Project Two
Signal Processing and Sound
Duration 3 weeks

PREFACE

Sound signals have been represented graphically for as long as graphics has existed. However with a computer added to the working pipeline its possible to envisage many new and unexplored visualizations of audio data.

The basis of motion graphics is often the relationship between sound and image. However as media breaks out of the confines of the screen new methods and approaches to audio data output are emerging.

Procedure

We will take our sound source from the first project. Processes it digitally then output it three dimensionally via the laser cutting fabrication process.

Week One - Introduction
Week Two – Strategies for visualizing audio
Week Three – Digital laser output

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Project Three
Cymatics
Duration 2 weeks
David Hall 'Ferro Interaction' 2004

http://www.carstennicolai.de/

Procedure

Each person will choose a liquid or granular material and pipe their audio
Experiments through the material.

The end result will be a Movie presentation of their experiment.

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Project Four
Real-time and interaction
Duration 6 weeks

http://cymatica.net/

Final Presentation

Physical Media 2009 from Opi@te Acc on Vimeo.

Duration 1 week

CG Studio Hongik 2010

2010-08-31T08:52:00.001-07:00

CG Studio
Depth and TimeDavid Hall Experiments in motion 2007

PROJECT ONE
Space and Motion Graphics (Still)Duration 3 weeks

PREFACE

The beginning of motion graphics runs parallel with the history of cinema.
And the birth of both was multiple exposure photography and the “zoetrope “. Motion capture (MOCAP) is a widely used process for calculating movement. But it can also be used to explore motion and animation (motion graphics) through a non time based delivery medium such as still images.

In this project we will explore motion and animation through the multiple exposures, or multiple imaging techniques. In any given environment or situation still motion graphics can reveal a hidden world of possibilities and beauty not visible to the naked eye.
METHOD

Step One
CONCEPT AND EXPLORATION-( 1 week duration )
Develop your concept with a view to its stylistic and visual qualities as well as how this work will be disseminated.

Step Two
DIGITAL-(1 week duration)
Experiment with concept, location and movement through a series of images.

Step Three
FINAL PRESENTATION - (1 week duration)
I expect at least 10 experimental images from each person as the final output of this project. I also expect to see a creative unusual approach the idea of still images and motion.
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PROJECT TWO
Form and Time (Animation)
Duration 4 weeks

David Hall Multiples 2009

PREFACE - Multiples

Posit 1
"The multiple manufactures originals in series.
This means that the objects are not reproductions of an original but are themselves originals. They are not simply multiplied but manifold within themselves."

According to this key statement, formulated by Daniel Spoerri and Karl Gerstner at the foundation of their Edition MAT (Multiplication d'Art Transformable) in 1959, the multiple is to be regarded as an art form in its own right.

In this unit class we will explore the concepts behind modern “Emergent “architectural and digital media procedures. We will use the concept of the genetic multiple to explore form and digital space.

Method

Each person will develop a formal strategy digitally, to investigate structure.

Week One – Introduction
Week Two – Primary outline
Week Three – Initial experiments One.
Week Four – Initial experiments Two
Week Five – Screen cap and play blast presentation.
Week Seven – Final presentation of stage one

Note. Autodesk Maya will be a primary tool in this project. Although you do not need to be an expert in this software you should have a general knowledge of 3D applications. I will demonstrate during class Maya procedure

Project Two – Integration

Procedure

Each person will define a location inside Seoul city. You will generate a site plan and collect data of the specific location. Then you will develop a structure and environment that takes site specific elements and integrate with your multiple work.

Week One – Introduction
Week Two – Primary outline
Week Three – Initial experiments One.
Week Four – Initial experiments Two
Week Five – Screen cap and play blast presentation.
Week Seven – Final presentation of stage one

Note. Autodesk Maya will be a primary tool in this project. Although you do not need to be an expert in this software you should have a general knowledge of 3D applications. I will demonstrate during class Maya procedure.

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PROJECT THREE
Motion Graphics and Z depth (Animation and compositing)
Duration 7 weeks
David Hall "Sequence 34" 2007

PREFACE
Flow and fluid mechanics are a primary ingredient in all motion graphics and film. In fact the principles of fluid mechanics are present in almost all physical liquid or particle systems. In this project I want you to play with the concept of flow from a digital and analogue perspective. The end result of the project will be a 3 minute animation / movie, with a sound track ( can be beat driven it’s your choice ).

OBJECTIVE
To find visual patterns and rhythm's in the digital and analogue world that can be refined and experimented with to produce a 1 to 3 minute motion for distribution via 3D display technology.

METHOD
For each person the process will be different. These personal methodologies will be discussed in class.

NOTE : As this is the primary part of the class you are perfectly free to specify and proceed with your own research project. The only provision is that you write a detailed brief first

Final Presentation
Duration 1 week

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Final Output December 2010 Hongik

CG Studio Hongik Autumn 2010 from OpiumBlue on Vimeo.

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Exhibition - "C.9 Community" 2010.08.16 - 2010.08.20

2010-08-09T22:03:00.000-07:00

David Hall 2009

"Community, Identity, Stability"
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 1

"The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 4

Exhibition - "C.8 Modern Couple" 2010.07.29 - 2010.08.15

2010-07-28T03:07:00.000-07:00

Exhibition - "Augmented" 2010.07.12 - 2010.07.24

2010-07-11T10:18:00.000-07:00

David Hall 2009

This is the story of how fashion, fetishism and computers may intersect giving rise to the social display we all presently engage in but seldom admit.

As the LCD and LED technologies become ever more ubiquitous and as Ray Kurtzwiel points out ever more cost effective. This projects seeks to experiment with the convergence through real time projection. In effect one day your shoes will be online as well as offline.

Exhibition - "C7.Dualism" 2010.06.29 - 2010.07.03

2010-06-29T19:03:00.000-07:00

Exhibition-"End of Spring Hongik" 2010.06.13

2010-06-13T07:23:00.000-07:00

David Hall 2010

Exhibition - "Flow" 2010.05.24 - 2010.05.30

2010-05-30T21:41:00.000-07:00

Group exhibition with the "Void" initiative.

Consisting of a stero lithographic print and two real time projections.

Exhibition - "C6.DaDa fish" 2010.05.10 - 2010.06.30

2010-05-08T12:49:00.000-07:00

Peters' Elephantnose

The elephant nose is a fish whose nose like organ is covered in electro-receptors, as is much of the rest of its body.

The weak electrical impulses generated by this fish can be made audible by placing two electrodes in the fish tank, which are then hooked up to an audio amplifier or a piezoelectric ear bud. The sonar-like clicks that this fish emits can sound like a squeaky door when the fish is excited.

We have connected the out signal from the fish directly to our computers. The image you see is being controlled by the fish in real time.

The show runs for one week until the 24th of May at the corner gallery Samchung dong........The Corner Gallery Seoul

Exhibition - "C5.FFKKKKK" 2010.04.17 - 2010.04.24

2010-04-15T06:53:00.000-07:00

Chapter Five and the final FFKKKKK -

Between 30 Seconds and One minute of abstract 3D by seven artists. This is the final FFKKKKK show. A gesture before we go our separate ways. As JC so rightly said, " the ain't much call for this kind of sh__t these days".

The show runs for one week until the 24th of April at the corner gallery Samchung dong..The Corner Gallery Seoul

Artists -

Sunghyun Cho
Sohyun Jo
Minwoo Lee
David Hall
Boram Kim
Jean Christophe Naour
OpiumBlue

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Event: Seoul Fashion Week - >Kim Young Joo< Visuals 2010.04.01

2010-04-01T10:31:00.000-07:00

15 minute live visuals for designer Kim Young Joo winter collection 2010.
A collaboration of artists with the opiumblue network.

FFKKKKK Artists.............

Dave Hall - The Usual >> digitalopium@gmail.com <<
Sunghyun Cho >> chosungh@gmail.com <<
Boram Kim >> 3dpuppy@gmail.com <<
Sohyun Jo >> pictoj@gmail.com <<
Jean-Christophe Naour >> vectorizeme@gmail.com <<
Minoo Lee >> aquagrey@gmail.com <<
Jinwoo Chung >> Jinwooya@gmail.com <<

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Exhibition - "C4.Function" 2010.03.20 - 2010.04.10

2010-03-20T19:02:00.000-07:00

Wave Function Deformation

Wave function deformer controlled by remote telephone connection.
This installation is an experiment an fusion of two projects. The first is the control of an artwork or installation via mobile telephone. The reason for the telephone connection as a remote interface is to bypass the location specific sensor paradigm. With the mobile it is possible to achieve interaction that is not localised by 0 to 10 meters range of a standard sensor.

This opens the door for close, mid and long distance interaction with media facades or actuator controlled architecture.The wave function deformer is based on a standard game engine environment. This was chosen as the modern game engine is capable of realtime display and deformation of a large number of polygons per second.

The poster image was achieved by exporting a mesh during game play simulation. Then a noise function was added to experiment with the possibillities of next gen realtime display.

The exhibition will run until April 10th 2010. Please bring your mobile, dial in and play.
Location - The corner Gallery Seoul

"Mobile connection device" David Hall 2008

Exhibition - "C.3 Process" 02-18-2009

2010-02-16T09:54:00.000-08:00

David Hall "Human Process" 2009
David Hall "Human Process" 2009

Location - >> Art Space The Corner project
From February 18th 2010 to March 5th 2010

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Exhibition - "Object_Eleven" December 19th 2009

2009-12-18T06:41:00.000-08:00

Stereo Lithography and Mapping 2

David Hall "Internal Structure" 2009

Location - >> Art Space The Corner project
From December 19th 2009 to December 30th 2009 Series two of the " Houses+Bodies" project. This "Object_Eleven" is based on the same principles as before with increased complexity of the form and mapping.

Object_Eleven was the most time consuming of all the stereo lithography experiments from the Houses+Bodies series. It was also the least script driven project. Paradoxically it is the most organic and anamorphic in structure. The previous four prints in the object eleven group failed due to structural error. This was the final iteration.

This installation can be seen in a 24 hour cycle from the street north of Anguk Station. The plan is to leave the projectors for the anamorphic image running the full 10 days.

David Hall " Object_Eleven" 2009

" Object_Eleven" 2009 Installation

Exhibition - Houses+Bodies - December 3rd 2009

2009-12-01T14:30:00.000-08:00

Experiments in Digital Architecture and Organic Structures
David Hall "Body Tesselation" 2008

David Hall "Parametric House" 2009

Opening Thursday 3rd December 2009 7pm
Location - Interartchannel >> Interartchannel.com

A series of objects dealing with the relationship between community and its constituent parts. These are linear extrapolations of communication technologies and the resultant physical deformations of living sentient forms. Each object represents the growth stage of the community and its occupants during their early formative life.

The gestation of each structure was approximately three months. During that time each one went through a selective process of distortion, part destruction and reconstruction with between 20 to 30 iterations along the timeline.

The governing input factors during that process equaled 50% script driven generative forms and 50% eclectic data. This eclectic data ranged from the common notions of computer controlled hydroponic systems when applied to mammals to experiential sexual adventures and their manifestations in a formal community.

All of the objects shown owe a great deal in their structure to the zoomorphic concept of the ‘Multiple’. That is to say that they are composites of many smaller and simpler units which are repeated along splines. At each repeat there is an iterative modification of the form via a code based or non linear distortion. As a result although visually complex, each is in effect an economical form in terms of overall construction data.

David Hall "Houses+Bodies" 2009

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Preview Stereo Lithographic prints with anamorphic projection

Object Eleven V1.3 OpiumBlue 2009

Anamorphic Projection 04 OpiumBlue 2009

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Closes January 07 2010.

Digital Form and Fabrication

2009-08-24T04:17:00.001-07:00

Project One (Of Two)- Digital Form " Structure Development"
David Hall " Versions" 2007

Brief -

For the first 5 weeks we will be going through the basic methodology's of so called digital architecture. I will be demonstrating how to use Maya as an experimental tool.

Using data from a specified location (each student will have their own co-ordinates) we will use Maya to experiment and generate structures with specific parameters defined by the location. From this point we will produce " versions " of the structures. And by versions I mean groups of objects ( structures ) will be modified and distorted then selected objects will be chosen and sequenced into the next generation of modified structures. After a pre determined level one of these iterations will be used for the next project.

Duration
Six weeks

Final Presentation
Printed out boards of A4 size. Each student will print a series ( at least 30 ) pages of their process and versioning output.

Note
As part of the monitoring process for the output of this class each student MUST create a blog with experiments and entries being made each week.

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Project Two (Of Two) - Digital Fabrication " Structure Output"Brief -

Self-replicating tiling
In geometry a self-replicating tiling is a tiling pattern in which several congruent tiles may be joined together to form a larger tile that is similar to the original. This is an aspect of the field of study known as tessellation. The "sphinx" hexiamond is the only known self-replicating pentagon.[1] For example, four such concave pentagons can be joined together to make one with twice the dimensions.[2] Solomon W. Golomb coined the term Rep-tiles for self-replicating tilings.

Tessellations and computer graphics
In the subject of computer graphics, tessellation techniques are often used to manage datasets of polygons and divide them into suitable structures for rendering. Normally, at least for real-time rendering, the data is tessellated into triangles, which is sometimes referred to as triangulation. In computer-aided design, arbitrary 3D shapes are often too complicated to analyze directly. So they are divided (tessellated) into a mesh of small, easy-to-analyze pieces—usually either irregular tetrahedrons, or irregular hexahedrons. The mesh is used for finite element analysis. Some geodesic domes are designed by tessellating the sphere with triangles that are as close to equilateral triangles as possible.
From wiki

From our initial models we will experiment with development software to export ( print ) the structure ready for assembly.

I expect the structures to increase in complexity and understanding each week.

Duration
Six weeks

Final Presentation
Each student will exhibit five of their best experiments.
These will be shown in a gallery or space will will organise during the semester.

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Physical Media II

2009-07-01T19:04:00.001-07:00

Advanced and experimental theories and techniques of analogue and digital media.

From http://cymatica.net/

Preface and Introduction

Cymatics is the study of visible sound and vibration, typically on the surface of a plate, diaphragm or membrane.
Direct ocular viewing of vibrations involves exciting inorganic matter such as particulate matter, pastes (both magnetic and non magnetic) and liquids under the influence of sound, although recent research has extended the range of media to include organic matter and the range of viewing has been extended to include the light microscope.
The generic term for this field of science is the study of 'modal phenomena,’ named 'Cymatics' by Hans Jenny, a Swiss medical doctor and a pioneer in this field. The word 'Cymatics' derives from the Greek 'kuma' meaning 'billow' or 'wave,' to describe the periodic effects that sound and vibration has on matter.
The apparatus employed can be simple, such as a Chladni Plate (a flat brass plate excited by a violin bow) or advanced such as the CymaScope, a laboratory instrument that makes visible the inherent geometries within sound and music.

From wiki

This class and projects will be about the exploration of audio driven patterns qand graphics with an intention to create an instalation.
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Project One (Of Three) "Signal Processing"
Tim Steer “This has been a day of solid achievement”

Project One (Of Three) "Signal Processing"
Each person will buy two or more battery powered electronic
audio devices. (Must be battery powered). One will be a
speak and spell machine the other will be up to you.

Week One – Introduction
Week Two – Disassembly and initial tests
Week Three – Adding components for control and interaction.
Week Four – Circuit development
Week Five – Final presentation

Note. As well as buying electronic audio devices you will also need soldering irons and various other components.
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Project Two (Of Three) "Cymatics and the Graphics of Sound"
Olafur Eliasson "Your Negotiable Panorama"
During this stage of the project I will teach you the basics of ableton and cubase. These programs will be used to drive an interactive Cymatic surface. This will be a five week project. We will explore physical and softeware based audio responsive components and visualisations.

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Project Three (Of Three) "Interaction, Installation and Space"

OpiumBlue "Colapse of the Wave"

During the last part of the project each student will develop and instalation.

Note. As well as buying electronic audio devices you will also need soldering irons and various other components.

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NOTE - All students are required to have a blog at www.blogspot.com (not naver). Also any movie footage shot should be uploaded to www.vimeo.com. This footage should then be embedded into your blogspot. You will be expected to upload work for assessment every week.

The final output of this class will be an instalation in a pre defined space at the end of semester. Failure to present will mean fail.

You will need to have some experience with video cameras and editing software to be able to do this class.You will also need to be prepared to learn and experiment with new software.

Media Environment

2009-07-01T18:46:00.000-07:00

Exploring spatial concepts and time through film, animation and installation.Rosie Pedlow and Joe King

Preface and Introduction

From Jerwood

Filmed on a caravan park at the end of the season, 'Sea Change' reveals a landscape dramatically transformed by light and time, and resonating with the transience of human presence. The frail, hand-painted caravans that fill the site are soon to be removed and crushed to make way for a new housing development, so the film also acts as a kind of document for an unusual place on the brink of disappearance. The film is the artists' response to place. The entire film consists of the same tracking shot, 300 metres long, filmed repeatedly at different times over a period of five days. It is closely akin to documentary in its use of camera as pure recording medium. However any semblance of narrative is rejected in favour of a framework that is at once formal and conceptual. This serves to focus the spectator's eye on the essential elements: the flatness of the landscape punctuated by caravans; the continual and dramatic changes in light; and the unrelenting passage of time.

Moog
by Motioncult

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Project One (Of Three) "Intervention"

JanFamily "Plans for other days"

The term "Intervention" with respect to art, installation and photography essentially means the modification of an environment ( or situation ) in a very immediate way. In other words the artists arrives at a location, modify or alters it, then films or photographs the location. It requires quick creative thinking and alternatively
detailed planning depending on the artists / designers intentions. As this is the initial project I want people to research the various examples of intervention then develop their own concept or theme.

Stage One ( 2 weeks )
Research and analyse artistic intervention and modification.

Stage Two ( 3 Weeks )
Develop your own theme and film the outcome of each experiment.
Output will be video 16:9 Format with less than 3 minutes duration for each.

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Project Two (Of Three) "Single Channel Environment"

Francis Alys "El.Gringo"

In this project we will explore POV film without edits or effects. The primary objective of the project will be to explore motion graphics in a very minimal way.
The theme of the work will be "Korean Fetish"

Stage One ( 1 week )
Research and analyse Korean fetish.

Stage Two ( 4 Weeks )
Using your research you will film environments and situations without editing or effects. Output will be video 16:9 Format with less than 3 minutes duration for each.

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IMPORTANT - New brief here >>

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Project Three (Of Three) "Development and Integration"

OpiumBlue "Car Park Fairy"

This will be a 5 week project using elements of the first
two projects with a brief written by yourself.

Stage One ( 1 week )
Research and outline your project brief.

Stage Two ( 4 weeks )
Realisation.
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The final output of this class will be a performance in a pre defined space at the end of semester. Failure to present will mean fail.

You will need to have some experience with video cameras and editing software to be able to do this class.

Entertainment End Game

2009-05-17T15:55:00.000-07:00

David Hall - Float 2007

Please choose a location that you feel compliments, assists or describes visually
an aspect of one your first two projects ( Korea Fetish or Visual Futurist ). Then
narrate for 3 to 5 minutes a passage from your project.
Note - This is a guide, it can be modified by you.

Format Guidelines
Resolution - As per device, however higher is clearly better.
Aspect Ratio - As per device but the letter box formats
of 16.9 usually enhance the completed film.
Duration - between 3 and 5 minutes
Editing - None
Post Effects - None
Dissemination - Upload to www.vimeo.com them embed in your blog spot.

Final Presentation
Presentation will start on June 1st and run to June 8th
5minutes movie presentation 5 Minutes question.

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From Final Presentations

JeongHyun Choo
A short about the collision of synthetic and analogue reality's.
Done with elegant and subtle execution.
Contact JeongHyun
seluetia@gmail.com
seluetia.blogspot.com

Sera Park
Hand Fetish and mutiple partners
Sarah861105@hotmail.com
sera-2009-1designofentertainment.blogspot.com

Visual Futurist

2009-04-12T16:52:00.001-07:00

Dave Hall - Wyeth Modified

The linear narrative of the development and progression of a technology such as the mobile phone for example, would be present, micro/miniature, implanted. The interesting part of the concept is not the technology itself but the sociological and psychological effects of the technology. The injected or implanted communication device could lead to so called “Digital Telepathy" and this could mean the end of loneliness and also the end of privacy as we know it. In the condition of no loneliness and no privacy the design of the everyday world would take on to our eyes strange procedures and objectives.

The concept of the end of privacy in relation to architecture for example would be a very different structure than we know today.

Please take a look at one of the following and write a discourse and make an analysis of the technology and its sociological effects.

1 - The Perfect Day - When Computer simulations become real
2 - Love Hotels and Electronics - The future of Pleasure
3 - Cultural Shifts - Cinema defines the 20th century Games define the 21st

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This is a short story by E.M. Forster. It predates most of the modern worlds communication technologies ( the internet by nearly 100 years ). However its remarkable how many elements in the story have a resonance today.

THE MACHINE STOPS
by E.M. Forster (1909)
"Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft radiance. There are no apertures for ventilation, yet the air is fresh. There are no musical instruments, and yet, at the moment that my meditation opens, this room is throbbing with melodious sounds. An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk-that is all the furniture. And in the armchair there sits a swaddled lump of flesh-a woman, about five feet high, with a face as white as a fungus. It is to her that the little room belongs.

An electric bell rang.........................."

http://www.plexus.org/forster/index.html

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Digital Architetcure 009

2009-02-14T03:44:00.001-08:00

Project 001
Digital Morphologies
Historically, a wonder of natural systems has served scientists and creative designers well. For example, Leonardo da Vincis studies of anatomy and the botanical formed the basis for both his art and his inventions. This contrasts sharply with the first half of the 20th century when the motorized machine- whether aeronautical or nautical, or a road vehicle – became the model for architecture, as espoused and illustrated by Le Corbusier in his writings. ( The photographs of his much loved machines becoming almost as famous as his buildings ). Placing mans own inventions at the apex of innovation automatically circumscribes the potential of architectural design and built form, as design becomes largely intent on the production of the single, polished set object. What mechanical system can, after all, compare with the complexity, reflectivity and responsive refinement of the geranium stem illustrated above?

There has been an increasing use of the word “emergence” in architecture, but as yet there has not been a systematic investigation of its instruments, nor has there been any real attempt to go beyond the common, but vague, definition of emergence as the properties of a system that cannot be deduced from its parts. Emergence is a consolidation of a paradigm shift that began more than 80 years ago, a profound change that has blurred the boundaries between quite separate sciences, and which has changed industry.

Extract from "Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies

METHOD
This project will follow a strict guideline of procedure.

Step One
Identify and organic component ( fruit, bones, plants etc )
Slice the component into 1mm to 5mm thick sections.
These sections will then be scanned via a flat bed scanner.

Presentation will be an A1 print of all the sections assembled together.

Step Two
These bit map sections will then be imported into maya and the outlines digitised and traced in sequence. Then after all the curves have been assembled lofting and skinning will take place.

Step Three
With the skinned surface a deformation algorithm or process will be
used on the object or surface.

Step Four
This surface Will then be refined and exported to be output via the stereo lithography machine ( in our case a Zcorp 130 )

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Project 002
The Multiple and Digital Fabrication
METHOD
Choose a downtown site specific location of no more than 30 meters square foot print. After the site has been chosen you will collect as much physical and historical data as possible. ( if the form of notes and movies etc ). This data will be used as a deformation or input source on a surface or particle system.

After generations the surface you will slice the section and output to acrylic via laser cut.

NOTE - In this class we will use maya as a primary digital tool

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Project 001
Digital Architecture and Synthetic Space

This Project details can be found here.

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Design Studio 009

2009-02-14T00:37:00.000-08:00

Project 001 ( Duration 4 weeks )
Design for transmissionPREFACE
As you know the graphics design of remote signaling communication technology has a history going back millennia. The present day mobile phone is becoming essentially a remote visual messenger. The traditional Korean military signaling kite ( above ) was used extensively as a telecommunication device. During this short project we will analyze the symbols of the traditional kite and then design a modern set for the 21st century.

OBJECTIVE
To initialize and understanding of symbolic graphics AND a creative non linear approach to design solutions.

METHOD

Step One
CONCEPT AND EXPLORATION-( 1 week duration )
Research and analyze the symbols of the traditional kite.

Step Two
DIGITAL-( 1 week duration )
Experiment with concept, and determine a present day symbolic structure for present day communication.

Step Three
FINAL PRESENTATION -( 2 weeks duration )
I expect each person to generate their own structured symbol system, them print out on a series of kites.

NOTE : As with ALL studio briefs you can interpret yourself and approach the concept differently. For example you may wish to base your graphic project on light trails from night flying kites, its your decision.

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Project 002 ( Duration 4 weeks )
Landscape and GraphicsDavid Hall Lagos suit installation 1998

PREFACE
Emerging technologies such as laser fabrication, locative media, and pervasive computing have brought about new perceptions and social interactions in urban environment, transforming the ways we experience our cities. The concepts of space, time, and social relationship in urban environment are put in flux, while there are growing interests among communities of artists viewing city as social playground, public space, fluid canvas, and invisible layers of network.
However the urban environment is not the only available location for media. Rural, seascapes etc etc can all be utilized to express and research the possibilities of Installed locative media.

OBJECTIVE
To conceptually explore the possibilities of site specific locative media and design.To enable a connection between the environment and location.

METHOD

Step One
CONCEPT AND EXPLORATION-( 2 week duration )
Conceptualise and play with methods of integrating type and fabricated graphics into landscapes that you have already researched.

Step Two
DIGITAL-(2 week duration )
Fabricate, install, photograph and DV your work. Final presentation will be through a blog record of your project.

NOTE : as with ALL studio briefs you can interpret yourself and approach the concept differently. For example you may wish to base your graphic project on light trails from night flying kites, its your decision.

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Project 003 ( Duration 8 weeks )
FLOW
Motion graphics

Cornell flow function

PREFACE
Flow and fluid mechanics are a primary ingredient in all motion graphics and film. In fact the principles of fluid mechanics are present in almost all physical liquid or particle systems. In this project I want you to play with the concept of flow from a digital and analogue perspective. The end result of the project will be a 3 minute animation / movie, with a sound track ( can be beat driven it’s your choice ).

OBJECTIVE
To find visual patterns and rhythm's in the digital and analogue world that can be refined and experimented with to produce a 1 to 3 minute motion graphic for distribution via mobile phone.

METHOD
For each person the process will be different. These personal methodologies will be discussed in class.

NOTE : As this is the primary part of the class you are perfectly free to specify and proceed with your own research project. The only provision is that you write a detailed brief first.

Design for Entertainment

2009-02-11T00:02:00.001-08:00

HR Giger http://www.hrgiger.com/

In these lectures we will look at the history and future of the design process when applied to entertainment. And by entertainment I specifically mean design outside the standard utilitarian methodologies which have dominated what text books classify as design. In other words this is a series about design driven by sociological and human desire as opposed to the usual problem solving paradigm.

1 – Introduction
A brief introduction to my work as a production designer and also to the nature of this semesters lectures. These lectures are intended to be an introduction to the area of design for the entertainment industries as well as looking at the possible directions technology and entertainment will go and how design will be a key component of new fledgling entertainment technology.

2 - The Visual Futurists Part One
3 - The Visual Futurists Part Two
Starting with the futurist movement in the begining of the 20th century and ending with the new wave of digital artists, this lecture charts the rise of the concept artist as a key player in the film and game production pipelines.

4 - A history of costume and character design Part One
5 - A history of costume and character design Part Two
From the cute to the horrific, we examine how characters and costume design have engaged and transfixed audiences, expressing emotional and psychological ideas through light and latex amongst other methods.

6 - Production design Part One
7 - Production design Part Two
The architecture of the unreal. Production designers set the special and visual tones of game and movies. The sets themselves a character of the ensamble.

* During week 7 students will be expected to hand in a title for research.
This proposal should be one paragraph in length and should analyze an artist, game, film or technology.

8 – Zoomorphic, Emergent and the next generation now
Zoomorphic presents a startling new trend in architecture - buildings that look like animals. Animal resemblances arise for various reasons. An architect may wish to create a symbol, as architects have always done. Or, there may be a functional explanation for why a building comes to share elements of its design with that of some living creature.

9 – Body Modification, Fashion, Fetishism and design Part One
10 – Body Modification, Fashion, Fetishism and design Part Two
A fetish (from the French fétiche; which comes from the Portuguese feitiço; and this in turn from Latin facticius, "artificial" and facere, "to make") is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a man-made object that has power over others. Essentially, fetishism is the attribution of inherent value or powers to an object.

11 – Future Equations, Literature and Design
This is the tale of how science fiction and fantasy writing has influenced the course of scientific and technological research.

12 – Animation and the underground
Details to be announced

13 – Student Presentations *

14 - Student Presentations *

15 - Student Presentations and Review *

*** As part of the course each student will be expected to give a 10 minute presentation to the whole of the class of their research concerning a particular aspect of design for the entertainment industries.

HK Digital Architecture 2008

2008-12-12T19:03:00.001-08:00

David Hall 2008
David Hall 2008
David Hall 2008

Physical Media Yonsei 2008

2008-12-12T19:02:00.002-08:00

LightShot - LightJocky Dec 2008 from opium white on Vimeo.

Light shot show december 2008 featuring the work of..

Kim Mi Sa misha0222@naver.com
http://blog.naver.com/misha0222
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YunMi huyunmi@hanmail.net
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Eomji Lee thumb224@hotmail.com
http://blog.naver.com/thumb224
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Hyeryung Sohn ecli21@gmail.com
http://ecli21.blogspot.com
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Soyeon Chong iinets@hotmail.com
http://www.mj-dandyculture.blogspot.com
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Byunghoon Lee metdream@hanmail.net
http://blog.naver.com/metdream
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Kim Darong
http://vjdarong.blogspot.com/
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Cho Sung Hyun
http://chosunghyun.blogspot.com/

LightShot Test from opium white on Vimeo.

The Physical Media class brief can be found here.....
http://opiumblue.blogspot.com/2008/08/physical-media.html

The Physical Media class work can be found here.....
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Kang Jung Hwa
http://smire77.blogspot.com/
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Cho Sung Hyun
http://chosunghyun.blogspot.com/
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Kim Na Eun
http://circuitbendinggirl.blogspot.com/
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Kim Jinmi
http://videoworkinprogress.blogspot.com/
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Kim Darong
http://vjdarong.blogspot.com/

circuit bending from sunghyun on Vimeo.
Darongs word - process - output font

KM Korea Fetish 2008

2008-12-12T19:02:00.001-08:00

Food Fetish from opium white on Vimeo.

MT_Graphics Yonsei Autumn 2008

2008-12-12T18:57:00.000-08:00

David Hall 2008 motion capture
David Hall 2008 motion capture

Misa Elevator from opiumblue on Vimeo.
Kim Mi Sa misha0222@naver.com
Misa's Blog - http://blog.naver.com/misha0222

Heo Yunmi huyunmi@hanmail.net
Music by Yang Yongjun

Two movies from this semeters motion graphics class. Both taken from this class brief, http://opiumblue.blogspot.com/2008/08/motion-graphic-studio.html

Digital Organic Structures

2008-08-24T02:40:00.000-07:00

Project One
Digital Structure David Hall 2006
Digital Structure David Hall 2006
Digital Structure David Hall 2006
Digital Structure David Hall 2006

PREFACE - Multiples

Posit 1
"The multiple manufactures originals in series.
This means that the objects are not reproductions of an original but are themselves originals. They are not simply multiplied but manifold within themselves."

According to this key statement, formulated by Daniel Spoerri and Karl Gerstner at the foundation of their Edition MAT (Multiplication d'Art Transformable) in 1959, the multiple is to be regarded as an art form in its own right.

Posit 2
Nano and Geno revolutions edge closer. Cities could account for 85% of the global population by 2030. Development of computer controlled genetic hydroponic growth structures, nano bot swarm information and diagnostic relays, become widespread.

Posit 3
Emerging now is an embryonic construction technique
Where buildings / spaces are "Grown" not constructed.
Where computers control growth structures and DNA profiles
of crystal and organic compounds to produce architecture.

Where everything is wireless and now seemingly impossible
environments are fed and watered like plants or animals but are infact
Silicon controlled structures. Buildings like human spinal bones, controlled organic growth resembling high tech trees.

Posit 4
Site Specific Locative Media.
A unique quality of the synthetic space of the game engine is the ability to replicate a single formal entity many times and have no effect on cpu performance. This project explores those replecative qualities.

Mobile phones and other communication devices are already starting to use the game engine as a UI and entertainment system.

David Hall

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Hwang Jeong Hee

Digital Architecture for Synthetic spaces

Project One - Exploration

Brief

In this unit class we will explore the concepts behind modern “Emergent “architectural procedures. We will use the concept of the genetic multiple to explore form and digital space.

Procedure

Each person will develop a formal strategy digitally, to investigate structure.

Week One – Introduction
Week Two – Primary outline
Week Three – Initial experiments One.
Week Four – Initial experiments Two
Week Five – Screen cap and play blast presentation.
Week Seven – Final presentation of stage one

Note. Autodesk Maya will be a primary tool in this project. Although you do not need to be an expert in this software you should have a general knowledge of 3D applications. I will demonstrate during class Maya procedure

Project Two – Integration

Procedure

Each person will define a location inside Seoul city. You will generate a site plan and collect data of the specific location. Then you will develop a structure and environment that takes site specific elements and integrate with your multiple work.

Week One – Introduction
Week Two – Primary outline
Week Three – Initial experiments One.
Week Four – Initial experiments Two
Week Five – Screen cap and play blast presentation.
Week Seven – Final presentation of stage one

Note. Autodesk Maya will be a primary tool in this project. Although you do not need to be an expert in this software you should have a general knowledge of 3D applications. I will demonstrate during class Maya procedure

Physical Media

2008-08-21T08:13:00.000-07:00

Project One - Circuit Bending

From wiki –
Circuit bending is the creative, short-circuiting of electronic devices such as low voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and small digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators. Emphasizing spontaneity and randomness, the techniques of circuit bending have been commonly associated with noise music, though many more conventional contemporary musicians and musical groups have been known to experiment with "bent" instruments. Circuit bending usually involves dismantling the machine and adding components such as switches and potentiometers that alter the circuit.

PREFACE

Circuit bending is realy the simple creative path towards electronics and interaction.Its emphasis is les on the technical and more on the creative approach to searching and experimenting with technology.

Procedure

Each person will buy two or more battery powered electronic audio devices. (Must be battery powered). One will be a speak and spell machine the other will be up to you.

Week One – Introduction
Week Two – Disassembly and initial tests
Week Three – Adding components for control and interaction.
Week Four – Circuit development
Week Five – Final presentation

Note. As well as buying electronic audio devices you will also need soldering irons and various other components.

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Project Two - The Shape of SoundDavid Hall 2006

Hyuna 2006

Jungun 2006
http://dasautomat.com/?page_id=130

PREFACE

Sound signals have been represented graphically for as long as graphics has existed. However with a computer added to the working pipeline its possible to envisage many new and unexplored visualizations of audio data.

The basis of motion graphics is often the relationship between sound and image. However as media breaks out of the confines of the screen new methods and approaches to audio data output are emerging.

Procedure

We will take our sound source from the first project. Processes it digitally then output it three dimensionally via the laser cutting fabrication process.

Week One - Introduction
Week Two – Strategies for visualizing audio
Week Three – Digital laser output
Week Four – Assembly
Week Five – Final Presentation

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Project Three - Audio controlled Surfaces

Carsten Nicoli
Carsten Nicoli
Audio Surface David Hall 2006
Audio Surface David Hall 2006

PREFACE

Physically displaying sound in a three dimensional environment is a relatively new discipline. It really belongs to the concepts and methodologies of the hyper surface and interactive architecture. However here we will be controlling audio that in turn controls a 3D surface. Here we will experiment with Ferro fluid, lycopodium powder and other particulates or liquids to realize the project.

Procedure

Each person will build and audio rig that will be used to control a fluid or surface. We will use the circuits from the first project to control our device.

Week One – Introduction
Week Two – Strategies for control
Week Three – Experiment One
Week Four – Construction and Assembly
Week Five – Final Presentation

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Motion Graphic Studio

2008-08-21T07:50:00.000-07:00

Project One - MOTION GRAPHICS Time Capture ImagingMotion Synthesis David Hall 2005

Motion Synthesis David Hall 2005

PREFACE

The beginning of motion graphics runs parallel with the history of cinema.
And the birth of both was multiple exposure photography and the “ zoetrope “. Motion capture ( MOCAP ) is a widely used process for calculating movement. But it can also be used to explore motion and animation ( motion graphics ) through a non time based delivery medium such as still images.

In this project we will explore motion and animation through the multiple exposure, or multiple imaging techniques. In any given environment or situation still motion graphics can reveal a hidden world of possibilities and beauty not visible to the naked eye.

METHOD

Step One
CONCEPT AND EXPLORATION-( 1 week duration )
Develop your concept with a view to its stylistic and visual qualities as well as how this work will be disseminated.

Step Two
DIGITAL-( 1 week duration )
Experiment with concept, location and movement through a series of images.

Step Three
FINAL PRESENTATION -( 1 week duration )
I expect at least 10 experimental images from each person as the final output of this project. I also expect to see a creative unusual approach the idea of still images and motion.

Project Two - Graphism and Digital Graffiti Korea Graffing David Hall 2005Banksy
Banksy
Digital Graffiti David Hall 2005
Digital Graffiti David Hall 2005

PREFACE

There are various forms of graffiti. One of the simplest forms is that of individual markings such as slogans, slurs, or political statements. Examples of this type of graffiti commonly are found in bathrooms or on exterior surfaces, and this graffiti is usually handwritten. Another simple form is that of the tag which is a fancy, scribble-like writing of one's name or nick-name. That is, tag signifies one's name or nick-name.

For example, wild style changes with each artist's interpretation of the alphabet, but it also relies on the use of primary colors, fading, foreground and background, and the like to create these letters. Thus, it is important and valuable to characterize some forms of graffiti as art because this challenges people, who are conditioned to accept art works as art only if they are created in a traditional manner and appear in institutional setting, to appreciate art works that originate and develop outside of these constraints. In doing so, people come to realize graffiti is not an art form that is done just for the sake of rebellious destruction. Quite the opposite, it is an innovative and truly original art form that is meant to bring an aesthetic pleasure to the audience like any other recognized art form.
In some sense you could say that Tags and graffiti are the antithesis of corporate graphics, and their traps of marketing and logistics. So graffing is a raw and base form of urban graphics and identity.

METHOD

Step One
CONCEPT-( 2 weeks duration )
Develop your concept with a view to its stylistic and visual qualities as well as how this work will be disseminated.

Step Two
DIGITAL-( 2 weeks duration )
Digitize and develop your tags/ concepts through 3D, Photoshop and illustrator.

Project Three - Motion and Music
CF Blue world For Ford Motor Company David Hall 1998
Subway Fairy David Hall 2006

Final brief

Using the visual form and nature from the first two projects you will develop a motion graphic sequence. Key elements of this sequence must be creativity and experimentation.
( Not a display of skills )

I expect the running time to be between 1minute and 3 minutes.

Stage One ( 2 weeks ) – Concept development and story boarding.
Presentation

Stage Two ( 3 weeks ) – Preproduction
Presentation

Stage Three ( 3 weeks ) – Final work and realization.
Edit and presentation
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Final Presentation - Abstract Motion 2005 Hongik

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Design and the Fetish

2008-08-19T02:00:00.000-07:00

Skin Two Magazine

Fetish(n.): a. Originally, any of the objects used by the Negroes of the Guinea coast and the neighbouring regions as amulets or means of enchantment, or regarded by them with superstitious dread. b. An inanimate object worshipped by primitive peoples on account of its supposed inherent magical powers, or as being animated by a spirit. c. fig. Something irrationally reverenced. d. Psychology. An object, a non-sexual part of the body, or a particular action, which abnormally serves as the stimulus to, or the end in itself of, sexual desire.

Preface

The word fetish or fetishism when attributed to African objects is used to describe a wide range of items, contexts and uses. In brief, fetish refers to an object that contains another form of substance(s), widely referred to as medicines or charms. These objects are made for the purpose of spirit guidance and are used to act upon the world whether it is in a natural or supernatural context. They can be used in a positive way, for example, to protect or to effect prosperity or fertility; or they can be used in a negative way, for example, to punish or provoke illness.

Likewise with the argument that fetish can be seen as a problematic term, this again will be of a general and brief nature compared to its full and complex analysis.

In a modern Western society the word fetish or fetishism has most probably the same connotations and symbolic meaning for most of its members. The meaning being a fetish is something or someone that an individual has an inner need or desire for in either an emotional, physical or sexual way. It encompasses to us a lot of behaviour that is considered to be outside the norm of society. So in this light it is received in quite a negative way and seems to signify something that people within the norm cannot quite understand.

Although the list of objects that fetishists can use for sexual gratification is inexhaustible, among the more common inanimate objects are panties, bras, slips, stockings or panty hose, negligees, shoes, boots and gloves. Common media objects include leather, rubber, silk, or fur. In some cases drawings or photographs of the fetish object may arouse fetishists, but more commonly the fetishist prefers or requires an object that has already been worn. The worn object does not serve as a symbolic reminder of the former owner, however, because it is the object that the fetishist relates to, not the person attached to it. Sometimes it is a body part, such as hair, feet, legs or buttocks that become fetish objects. These are examples of animate fetish objects.

The sexual acts of fetishists are characteristically depersonalized and objectified, even when they involve a partner. The focus of attention is exclusively on the fetish, whereas non-fetishists may at various times make a particular body part or an object part of their general sexual arousal and expression with another person, but not be fixated on it.

Lecture Schedule
Each week we will have a one and a half hour lecture followed buy a discussion.

Week One
Definition and introduction to the concept of fetishism

Week Two
The evolution and concepts behind fetishism and fashion

Week Three
Body modification

Week Four
The future of the fetish and the fetish of technology

Week Five ( See note below )
Proposals for research and discussion of the “Korean specific fetish”

Week Six
Presentation of research of fetishism in Korea

Week Seven
Publication discussion and review

Note – As part of this course you will be expected to research and document a study of a specific part of Korean fetishism ( from love hotels to mobile phone mods)

Computers and Meat

2008-08-19T01:43:00.001-07:00

Garnet Hertz www.conceptlab.com

Garnet Hertz www.conceptlab.com

Galvanism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanism

The effect was named by Alessandro Volta after his contemporary, the scientist Luigi Galvani, who investigated the effect of electricity on dissected animals in the 1780s and 1790s. Galvani himself referred to the phenomenon as animal electricity, believing that he had discovered a distinct form of electricity. Volta, on the other hand, claimed that the reputed animal electricity was due to an interaction between the metals used to mount and dissect the frog's leg, and in 1800, before the Royal Society in London, announced the Voltaic Cell or pile, essentially the battery.

The modern study of galvanic effects in biology is called electrophysiology, the term galvanism being used only in historical contexts. The term is also used to describe the bringing to life of organisms using electricity, as shown in Mary Shelley's work
Frankenstein (which was influenced by galvanism) and people still speak of being 'galvanized into action'. Many Victorian scientists believed that if the right amount of electricity was charged into the brain, the corpse would come back to
life.

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Organic Computer For Apple Macintosh 1996 David Hall

Brief

In this project we are going to take a very wide look at the concept of galvanism and the relationship between computers, Digital media and meat. This could be a computer literally controlling meat or it could be about basic human instincts and pleasure and how computers and media relate to this area. The output of this class and research could be

A – A physical working prototype
B – A film depicting a scenario of the concept
C – An installation environment

Example 1 – Muscle tissue that responds directly to audio signals “ The disco”
Example 2 - Electro stimulation love hotel
Example 3 – Physical computing, telepresence and teledildonics.

Procedure

Stage One ( One week ) – Introduction
Stage Two ( 3 weeks ) – Concept generation and research

Presentation Week five

Stage Three ( 3 weeks ) – Concept Development

Presentation Week Eight

Stage Four ( 4 weeks ) – Construction and realization

Stage Five ( Final output and presentation )

Note – As this is an unusal project I expect the research to be clear and thorough.
At each presentation I expect to see photographs, drawings and CG work.
Please do not present images from the web as research.

Remote_002

2008-07-03T08:30:00.000-07:00

COM Truck

2008-07-02T02:39:00.001-07:00

Objective
To experiment with three "low-fi" Korean advertising trucks. Its realy an experiment in the missapropriation of exhisting technology. I think this ois one of the few ways at present that media can be transported and set in various locations at high speed.

Equipment and logistics
First we need to find a company to rent the equipment from and then experiment with the softeware thast they use, I would hope that we can modify the technology to make the whole project interactive and realtime.

It may or may not be possible to put low resolution video through the truck LED system in realtime. Or it may be possible to interact with the imahe or animation in realtine, as each location may trigger a different set of graphics to be displaed. Realtime locative media is what we are realy after.

Output
The Instalations will be filmed by atleast 3 camera simultaneously.
The footage of wich will be edited into a three minute movie.
This movie will be the final output describing the technical working process and physical working

APT Interaction

2008-07-02T02:30:00.000-07:00

Objective
To create a real-time interactive relationship between the organic sonic life of an urban structure and the surface skin of the structure. To transform the relatively inanimate structure into a visually living thing.

Equipment and logistics
As in the diagram we need 5 transmission mobile phones to be covertly placed within the structure. Each mobile will transmit the audio from its specific location and be set to "auto answer". There will be 5 receiving mobiles each wired into a mini mixing desk. A notebook will translate the audio signal real time piping the signal into specified reactive software, preliminary this will be flash, but could be any soft we decide.

I expect the first test to be done in the next 2 weeks using the standard projector and a single mobile set, We should be able to achieve this during class time.

After the test we can proceed to work out how to organize and plan the final installation

Location
As per the location research

Costs
As I will be funding the project I expect ALL costs to be detailed at each stage, At present the main cost will be the mobile phones and their connection and the truck rental.

EI Interactive Structures

2008-07-01T22:04:00.000-07:00

Objective
To create an interactive morphogenetic structure which is responsive to its environment in realtime.

Equipment and logistics
My initial concept is generate digital organic graffiti forms that will be morpho genetically guided towards a set of three output foprms. The construction of wich will probably utilize the bamboo lantern technology available in Korea

June 28-2008 Projection Mapping test.

Here is the first test of a maya camera matched to the Mitsu 480U projector.

The Virtual camera was matched by using a glass lens distorte inside maya, then raytrace rendering.

Creativity, Software and Hardware

2008-04-10T16:08:00.000-07:00

This is class proposal looking at the techniques of modern media and the way I personally work with software and hardware. It is not just a technical class but also the methedology I have developed to work with media.

Its is NOT intended to make everyone who takes it to become an expert in any particular piece of hardware or software. But to give them a window for exploration.

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Semester One

Week one -
Introduction
Drawing and sketching, building block for visual communication

Week two –
Detail and web
360 degrees Quick time VR, photography and interaction methodology

Week three –
Compositing and creative solutions
360 degrees Quick time VR, photography and interaction

Week four –
Introduction to Digital stop frame animation with a still camera

Week five –
Digital stop frame animation with a still camera - details

Week six –
Retiming animation and video and Time slicing

Week seven –
Introduction to 3D ( Maya )

Week eight –
Quick time VR and 3D integration

Week nine –
Basic 3D ( Maya ) and movie / stills photography integration

Week ten –
Detailed camera movies in 3D for motion graphics

Week eleven –
Rendering and lighting intro

Week twelve –
Rendering and lighting detail

Week thirteen –
Rendering and animation output pipeline

Week fourteen –
Study request

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Creativity, Software and Hardware Procedure

David Hall - 2008

Creativity, Software and Hardware Procedure

David Hall - 2008

Semester Two

Week one -
Circuit Bending and electronics

Week two –
Detail Circuit Bending and electronics details for physical computing.

Week three –
Audio and midi Software intro ( Cubase, Ableton, Native instruments and plugins etc )

Week four –
Audio circuits and software integration

Week five –
3D intro 2

Week five –
Midi and 3D Animation

Week six –
Audio and 3D Animation control

Week seven –
Introduction to Generative and procedural techniques

Week eight –
Generative and procedural techniques, details

Week nine –
Surfacing and object orientated assembly

Week ten –
Adobe Flash and 3D integration

Week eleven –
Game Engines and Real time graphics

Week twelve –
Game Engines and Real time graphics pipeline.

Week thirteen –
Study request

Week fourteen –
Study request

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Note
This class is a one year primer. If taken the student is expected to do both semesters in order to get a full understanding of the scope of modern media.

Hardware requirements

Relatively high spec PC with at least a mid range graphics card and a
Mid to high range Audio card.

Digital Stills camera.

DV camera

Audio recording device.

Soldering iron and accessories

Miscellaneous low voltage circuits ( details to be given in class ).

Software Requirements - Primary

RealViz Sticher
RealViz Re-Timer
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premier
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Flash

Sony Sound forge
Steinberg Cubase SX
Ableton live
Native instruments complete

Autodesk Maya

Software Requirements - Secondary
To be discussed in class

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New Scientist Speculates

2008-03-17T09:37:00.000-07:00

As guessing goes these are pretty interesting.
Please have a look for QnA insperation
www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/science-forecasts

Especially Simon Conway Morris
www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/science-forecasts/dn10477-simon-conway-morris-forecasts-the-future.html

Morphic Future

2008-03-10T07:52:00.000-07:00

Design Workshop Project 001

Course Professor David Hall

Morphic Future
(Everyday Musings of the Everyday Future)

DURATION - 14 WEEKS
PRESENTATION - WEEK 3, WEEK 5, WEEK 8, WEEK 11 AND FINAL WEEK 14.

PREFACE

Everyone has a concept of the future, its part of the human condition to forecast and speculate in a detailed
and sophisticated manner. As with all speculation there is no write or wrong answer.

The opinions of experts as well as ordinary people about what they consider to be the future can shed light on the present zeitgeist like no other. Locked within speculative imagination is one of the keys to understanding our present condition.

The modern world for example seems to be obsessed with the “Simulacra “ as well as with general synthesis of the physical self. The projection of the physical body has become one of the holy grails of modern computing (AI being another). This is commonly known as “ Telepresence “. And the mythology goes that once this simulacrum is achieved then unlimited possibilities will result.

I am curious about the reactions to the above statement from people of all walks of life. Also there are many other questions you may wish to ask (and should).

METHOD

You will research what kind of interview / questions and people you will use to record an interview.
Then after test recording you will compile 2 or 3 audio interviews that will be edited in a audio software App such as sound forge or cubase ( with some effects and DSP processing ) for an baseline audio track. With a running time of between 1 to 3 minutes.

After you make the audio track you will shoot DV, Animation (Analogue and Digital) to complement the audio track. This DV or animation work will be the primary part of this project. Experimenting with images, video effects and audio to re-enforce or compliment the audio track.

STAGES

1 – Research and discuss concepts of the future of humanity.

2 – Choose an area that you will use to find people then question them.

Note – Questions and topics could be…

The future of - Telephones and Communication
Computers
Entertainment
Marriage and divorce
Games
Religion
Nationalism and Patriotism
Locality and Community
Architecture
Art
Children and Childhood
Medicine and Longevity
Etc

You must Research and decide an area for yourself.

2 - Research and analyze possible candidates for interview.

3 – Begin test interviews and recordings.

4 – Conceptualize the nature of the visuals, animation and effects for the movie.

5 – Test experiments with DV and animation
(it’s your choice, but experiment is the key here)

6 – Preliminary assemble of audio and video

7 – Further experiments

8 – Final cut

9 – Final assembly of everybody’s work into one single 30 or 40 minute movie.

10 – Title and credits

11 – Dissemination
(I envisage dissemination through the “Bit Torrent network” for maximum exposure).

REQUIREMENTS

I expect the result of this project to be a short descriptive film. Of between 2 and 3 minutes per person or team.
All the final movies will be assembled into one whole with a title sequence and an end credit sequence.

Note I will be credited as Director and you will be credited as “Video artist”.

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE AND FORMAT
See “ Submission Guidelines “

READING LIST
Please look at these BBC Horizon Dcumentarys. Look for the effect shots during the narrative VO.

PERIODICALS – ARTICLES – URL LINKS
To be confirmed

FORMAT
Please use 1080p or 720p on the Sony HVRs to ensure unity for the whole class.
This way we can cut together everybodys work without trouble.

TOOLS AND SOFTWARE

We will order some mobile mic connectors so everybody can use thier mp3 player/recorder to record the audio.

You are free to experiment with in camera FX etc.

The software we will use will be..
Soundforge or cubase ( or other audio soft )
After Effects
Premier Etc

You can ( and i hope you do ) experiment with others.

PREVIOUS EXAMPLES
Although they are just documentarys, the VO track of these is interesting. Have a look.

Jaesun Kim Sax_Man
wotjs98@gmail.com

Woohyun Kim Mr Reverse

“Audio Sampling and Digital Signal Processing”

2008-02-25T08:37:00.000-08:00

SOUND FOR ABSTRACT ANIMATION

Sound design and sound scapes for interactivity, movies, or computer game atmospheres and Sound videos.

ESCAPEING THE MUNDANE
DURATION - 2 WEEKS
PRESENTATION - WEEK 1 WEEK 2

PREFACE
When we consider art from an historical perspective there are always new concepts to communicate and new paradigms to define. Artists move across the boundaries of discipline without shifting their identities. While artistic genres continue to evolve, nothing is lost; conceptual approaches are reapplied and new ones introduced. In this course, we will explore sound art as a complex multidimensional medium situated in both physical and virtual space. The main objective is to develop the appreciation and application of the many ways that musical composers, sound artists, and visual artists have conceived of and developed sound as a unique and powerful artistic medium.

OBJECTIVE
To investigate how to record and process sound in an analagoues way similar to image processing and developing in photoshop.
Your sound scape should develop organicly and NOT musicly. You want your sound to be for and installation or movie. It could be about interactivity or atmosphere.

The Primary Objective of this project I to creat a series of 15 second sound textures to animate to in the final movie project. 12 BARS at 180BPM.

METHOD
Part One ( Week One )
Collect "noises" within a short radius of MIC made up of environmental sound including traffic, construction, people, etc. Of particular interest: machines and non traditional music style sounds.

Edit these sounds in Soundforge then transfer to cubase to test time sync to 180 BPM.

Part Two ( Week Two )
Process the recording using, Soundforge / Reaktor / Absynth or other sound processing program. And also think about processing the sound via analogue means. Then reprosess or trigger using cubase, max msp or other such DSP program.

TUTORIAL LINKS
Basic Synth Building
http://www.computermusic.co.uk/tutorial/reaktor1/reaktormain.asp
http://www.computermusic.co.uk/tutorial/reaktor1/1.asp
Reaktor Tips
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/May02/articles/reaktortips.asp
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Jun02/articles/reaktortips2.asp
Native Instruments Reaktor tutorial directory
http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?reaktortut_us

Creative Synth Tutorial Database
http://web.archive.org/web/20030210074847/www.creativesynth.com/tutorials/toc_tutorials.html
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Reaktor:Tutorials

Landscape and Media

2008-02-25T03:38:00.000-08:00

http://www.troika.uk.com/

United Visual Artists
United Visual Artists

Andy Goldsworthy

PREFACE

Emerging technologies such as wireless network, locative media, and pervasive computing have brought about new perceptions and social interactions in urban environment, transforming the ways we experience our cities. The concepts of space, time, and social relationship in urban environment are put in flux, while there are growing interests among communities of artists viewing city as social playground, public space, fluid canvas, and invisible layers of network.

However the urban environment is not the only available location for media.
Rural, seascapes etc etc can all be utilized to express and research the possibilities of Installed locative media.

OBJECTIVES

To conceptually explore the possibilities of site specific locative media.
To enable a connection between the environment and location.

This could be through telepresence or physically engaging and interacting through a device of your construction with the environment.

Online VR

2008-02-25T02:24:00.001-08:00

David Hall 2006

David Hall 2006

“360” SEOUL

PREFACE

About QTVR
QuickTime VR is Apple's award-winning, photo-realistic, cross-platform virtual reality technology that makes it possible to explore places as if you were there. All major applications that play QuickTime movies can also play QuickTime VR movies.

About Interaction and QTVR technology
Initially QTVR was developed as an immersive environment technology and has been primarily used as a tool for online tourism. However images can be generated in 3D then transposed to QTVR viewers. Also photographs can be composite or over painted to give a more conceptual environment or image.

Other areas that have not been explored at length are the possibilities of a QTVR image as a GUI for websites or online games.

METHOD
Each Person will make a minimum of 5 QTVR environments. Each environment will be linked to each other via a hotspot (or multiple hotspots) link within the QTVR image.

The environments should be unusual and dynamic ( NOT standard touristy images of beauty spots and over photographed locations )

The objective is to put ALL of the QT images linked and online. To make a dial in journey through Seoul.
Instead of the project being a “ hey look at this nice part of Seoul “ I think it would be much more interesting if the whole project where a narrative journey.
With each person exploring interior and exterior space. Scale, texture and light should also play a part in the decision of where and when to shoot.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES
To capture environments of textures as part of the production process.
These will be used in part as reference for the final project of this semester.

RESEARCH AND LINKS
360image.de - Germanyhttp://www.360image.de/
VRCanada.ca - Canadahttp://www.vrcanada.ca/
Sven Anders Photography - Germanyhttp://www.vr360.de%20/
Affendy Awalludin - Francehttp://www.fnd-fnd.com/
360pixel.de - Germanyhttp://www.360pixel.de/
Panoramic VR in Flash! - USAwww.nurturesourcedesigns.com/Images/Projects/360_1998_Marin/
CheathamLane - Immersive Interactivity - USAhttp://www.cheathamlane.net/
Virtual Tour of the Taos Pueblo - USAwww.mediatek360.com/taos
Jim Galvin - http://www.pixpi.com/
PANO4YOU - Virtual Tours Services Singapore - Singaporehttp://www.pano4you.com%20/

“MOTION GRAPHICS” Time Capture Imaging

2008-02-25T02:06:00.000-08:00

michaelhoppen

anntorrence

eames

PREFACE

The beginning of motion graphics runs parallel with the history of cinema.
And the birth of both was multiple exposure photography and the “ zoetrope “.

Motion capture ( MOCAP ) is a widely used process for calculating movement. But it can also be used to explore motion and animation ( motion graphics ) through a non time based delivery medium such as still images.

In this project we will explore motion and animation through the multiple exposure, or multiple imaging techniques. In any given environment or situation still motion graphics can reveal a hidden world of possibilities and beauty not visible to the naked eye.

METHOD

Step One
CONCEPT AND EXPLORATION-( 1 week duration )
Develop your concept with a view to its stylistic and visual qualities as well as how this work will be disseminated.

Step Two
DIGITAL-( 2 weeks duration )
Experiment with concept, location and movement through a series of images.

Step Three
FINAL PRESENTATION -( 1 week duration )
I expect at least 10 experimental images from each person as the final output
Of this project. I also expect to see a creative unusual approach the idea of still images and motion.

Important note.
Final presentation will require photographs and images of High resolution for printing purposes.

BOOKS AND LINKS
www.hrc.utexas.edu/.../elisofon/elisofon19.html

Games and Game controllers

2008-02-25T01:57:00.000-08:00

David Hall 2005

DURATION - 13 WEEKS
PRESENTATION – WEEK 5 AND WEEK 10

The FPS has been around for a long time ( in game terms anyway ). Its future is pretty clear, more realism. MMORPG and Japanese led erotic games will obviously develop as graphic cards and networks become more sophisticated in their ability to add dynamics and realism to the interaction and visuals.

The Nintendo Wii has recently taken the gaming world by surprise buy a simple but innovative approach to interaction. This made it clear that advances in games and game play are about outside the game as much as inside the game itself.

After the demise of the FPS what will be the new areas of exploration for games and what will be the physical interaction possibilities of such games. And what new ways can we interact with existing games with existing technology today.

Costume and Technology

2008-02-25T01:49:00.000-08:00

Joomi Ha

Kim Boram

Minwoo Lee

‘Costume and Technology 3’

DURATION - 13 WEEKS
PRESENTATION – WEEK 5 AND WEEK 10

PREFACE

One of the hyped terms in the world of technology and design is the phrase “Wearable computing“. Infect this term contains as much meaning as the term “Ubiquitous Computing“, which is to say that both are so vague and encompass such a wide variety of disciplines that they could refer to almost anything. More commonly “Wearable Computing “ has come to signify some kind of practical or utilitarian computer that is integrated into clothing.

Our objective for this project is different in that we are not looking for a practical solution.

What I envisage is a theatrical costume for leisure or performance. This could mean “Disco Shoes” or it could mean “stage” clothing. The important thing is that the device be thought provoking and utilize sensors and technology to perform its task.

METHOD

This project will be divided into the following stages –

1 – Concept generation and brainstorming. With sketches and photographs.

2 – Refinement

3 – Practical test mockups

4 – Fully working test prototypes.

I expect modified clothing or real products to be used as the basis of your finished projects. Making costumes from scratch would be too time consuming and probably too expensive.

The important thing to keep in mind is a sense of the theatrical or even operatic.

Credit will be given for artistic approaches and unusual concepts. And please try and stay clear of the practical side of the subject in terms of ergonomics and utility.

“BEYOND THE AEROSOL” Urban graphics

2008-02-24T23:28:00.000-08:00

David Hall 2005

David Hall 2006

Graffiti research lab http://graffitiresearchlab.com/

Banksy

Banksy Palestien http://www.banksy.co.uk/

Dazzle ship http://www.bobolinkbooks.com/Camoupedia/DazzleCamouflage.html

PREFACE

There are various forms of graffiti. One of the simplest forms is that of individual markings such as slogans, slurs, or political statements. Examples of this type of graffiti commonly are found in bathrooms or on exterior surfaces, and this graffiti is usually handwritten. Another simple form is that of the tag which is a fancy, scribble-like writing of one's name or nick-name. That is, tag signifies one's name or nick-name.

For example, wild style changes with each artist's interpretation of the alphabet, but it also relies on the use of primary colors, fading, foreground and background, and the like to create these letters. Thus, it is important and valuable to characterize some forms of graffiti as art because this challenges people, who are conditioned to accept art works as art only if they are created in a traditional manner and appear in institutional setting, to appreciate art works that originate and develop outside of these constraints. In doing so, people come to realize graffiti is not an art form that is done just for the sake of rebellious destruction. Quite the opposite, it is an innovative and truly original art form that is meant to bring an aesthetic pleasure to the audience like any other recognized art form.

In some sense you could say that Tags and graffiti are the antithesis of corporate graphics, and their traps of marketing and logistics. So graffing is a raw and base form of urban graphics and identity.

METHOD

Step One
CONCEPT-( 5 weeks duration )
Develop your concept with a view to its stylistic and visual qualities as well as how this work will be disseminated.

Step Two
DIGITAL-( 5 weeks duration )
Digitize and develop your tags/ concepts through 3D, Photoshop and illustrator.

Step Three
DISEMINTATION AND PUBLICATION -( 5 week duration )
Find a location (a building that is to be demolished etc) and Draw, Spray, Paint or sculpt your Graff on the surface of the structure.

Important note.
Final presentation will require photographs and movies of final publication

BOOKS AND LINKS
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/
http://www.stillfree.com/links.html
http://www.burodiscount.net/exhibition/archive/ata/
http://www.zedz.org/

Digital Organic Environments

2008-01-28T23:27:00.000-08:00

JeongHee hwang
JeongHee hwang

Jungeun Jungeun

biothing www.biothing.org

biothing http://www.biothing.org/

Multiples - serial originals

"The multiple manufactures originals in series. This means that the objects are not reproductions of an original but are themselves originals. They are not simply multiplied but manifold within themselves." According to this key statement, formulated by Daniel Spoerri and Karl Gerstner at the foundation of their Edition MAT (Multiplication d'Art Transformable) in 1959, the multiple is to be regarded as an art form in its own right.Multiples are an expression of the endeavour to democratise the plastic arts by means of objects. A line starting with Marcel Duchamp (readymade "Bottledryer" 1914) received a name ("Multiples") and impetus from the Edition MAT, was given shape by the Fluxus artists, popularised by pop art, expanded by Joseph Beuys for his "vehicle for the circulation of ideas" and used for the forming of "social sculptures".
Peter Fabian

Multiples can also be said to be “Multiple exposure “photography of moving objects. Or the same shape multiplied in 3D for example that is then deformed to produce “unique multiples “