Need Help? Answer Person is here – Zack

We have hired an “Answer Person”, Zack Marlow-McCarthy, (zmarlow-mccarthy@ecuad.ca), who can assist students with software questions. He has experience with all Adobe software, including Premiere and Final Cut Pro plus he’s awesome!!

He will be available on Mondays and Tuesdays from 11:30-1:30 at a computer terminal in the Digital Labs (beside AV) in the North Building. Students can drop by the lab during these times to get help from Zack. He can also be available for email help during these times.

-Julie

dreamhome on GOOGLE EarthVIEWER

JUST link to an html page that you have uploaded to your pub_html folder on your server space.
Use the this link to place the viewer on that html page. This widget embeds the viewer on your html page.
http://www.takitwithme.com/geembed.html

http://www.ecuad.ca/~gigliott/dreamhome.html

Note:
embedding the viewer directly on the blog does not work.

Mid Term Report and Presentation

Due Oct 28 and Nov 4

Mid-term presentation: (10 min, 4 marks)

Mid-term report: (4 marks)

Description + content

The Mid Term Report (MTR) is intended to be a document of what you have been involved in during your internship so far.You should address these questions:

1. What have you been working on?

2. What have you learned?

3. How has your role and work shifted from your initial Scope of Work?

4. Are there any new goals that have been defined?

For your MTR you expected to be creative! It should contain the following information:

• Images that document what you have been working on, and any other visual information that you think would help show your involvement in your internship

• A description or list of the things you have been involved with outlining your role and contribution.

• A description or list of what you have learned.

• A description or list of what you hope to achieve and any new goals.

Delivery of your SOWR

You are asked to present your MTR during the class of Oct 28 or Nov 4. Once you have given your presentation you are to upload a PDF version of your MTR to your blog for me to download.

Here is the list of presentations on their respective days:

October 28

Mary

Hao Ting

John

Zack

Megan

Ashley

November 4

Sisi

Shaughnessy

Ben

Jula

Dana

Sachi

Shannon

Derek

Anthony

Billy

Diana

– Julie

in-class Workshop on Oct 21: ‘fun with moving colors’ w

in-class workshop during Oct 21 class, 8:30-11:20

by Morgan Rauscher

When we think about learning computer programming it can be really scary at first. Computers are these very complex and intimidating things that can do so much. How is it possible for ‘non-engineers’ to learn about programming when it is so very complex. The answer is simple, don’t try to build a computer for your first project! If you think of it in terms of painting, you would not think about painting a mater piece until you have first learned about what a paint brush is or what a specific type of paint can do.

The basics of computer programming and electronics hardware are actually really easy to learn and can be very useful tools for artists interested in exploring interactive work.

So what we will do together in the class is first talk about the simple idea of a program (with some fun examples). Then we will use the popular “Processing” (http://processing.org) program to build a small interactive visual program together. Finally, we will be making the program ‘work’ in real life by using an Arduino (http://www.arduino.cc/) microcontroller. If we have time we will combined the interactive “Processing” program with the Arduino hardware.

So we will go from simple idea, to a computer program and then to a working physical thing all together as a class. Students will have a chance to ask questions and get involved throughout the whole class. The underlining theme or title of the class is ‘fun with moving colors’.

DIgital Situationism and Urban Intervention

“The Interactive Spectacle.pdf -    http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:XUjvnSC8SH0J:www.idl.dundee.ac.uk/~shaleph/pdfs/The%2520Interactive%2520Spectacle.pdf+digital+Situationists&hl=en&gl=ca&sig=AFQjCNH12Z3_O3×40yKpOwUiEv0cZl20mw

“Department of Ongoing Digital Situations.”  http://www.toysatellite.org/doods

Paul, Christianne. “interventions in Virtual Public Spaces.” http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/1616/1531

History of Art for Airports

a net.art history by Vuc Cosic
http://www.ljudmila.org/%7evuk/history/

A Plethora of Symbols

at SYMBOLS.com

http://www.symbols.com/

Signs, Symbols, and Icons

An excellent tutorial on how Signs “work” from Happy Fun Communcation Land.
http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/Semiotics/sem1.html

Rural Intervention

A little inspiration for your second project: Urban intervention.

M. Night Shyamalan’s 2002 film SIGNS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTgO18G5zjI

Ryoji Ikeda at the Surrey Art Gallery

Four new exhibitions: Ryoji Ikeda, Infinite Egress, Arcade and Optic Ear

Please join us at the Surrey Art Gallery for the opening reception party on
September 26, 7–9pm.

Ryoji Ikeda: data.tron/data.scan
Ryoji Ikeda’s data.tron/data.scan is an audiovisual installation where visitors will experience the vast universe of data in the infinite between 0 and 1. Each single pixel of visual image is strictly calculated by mathematical principle, composed from a combination of pure mathematics and the vast sea of data present in the world. These two works are part of Ikeda’s datamatics project, a long–term programme of moving image, sculptural, sound and new media works that take data as their theme and material, exploring the ways in which abstracted views of reality – data – are used to encode, understand and control the world. The exhibition is produced in conjunction with the 10th Anniversary of the Surrey Art Gallery’s TechLab digital art residency and exhibition program. data.scan is co-produced by Surrey Art Gallery and Forma (forma.org.uk). data.tron is co-produced by Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains and Forma. Continues to December 13

Image credit: Ryoji Ikeda, data.tron. Photographer: Ryuichi Maruo (courtesy of YCAM).

Infinite Egress
Considered by many to be the ultimate abstraction, the concept of the infinite has compelled many modern and contemporary artists to try to capture its essence. Infinite Egress presents work from two recent moments of heightened interest in the infinite: the beginning of the 1970s and the last half of this decade. Borrowing from visual languages associated with fashion and commercial display, entertainment and spectacle, spirituality and transcendental experience, optics and architecture, the artworks presented here consider the concept of infinity in relation to the body and its movement through space. Exhibiting artists: David Dyment & Roula Partheniou, Babak Golkar, Robert Kleyn, Lucy Pullen, and Robert Smithson. Continues to December 13

Arcade: Kwantlen Fine Arts Faculty
Inspired by the arcade-like surroundings of the Arts Centre lobby, faculty from Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Fine Arts department present drawings, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, videos and installations that surprise, excite and engage. Exhibiting artists: Gabriela Aceves, Kent Anderson, Ana Black, Eyrne O. Donahue, Sibeal Foyle, Robert Gelineau, Jake Hill, Kitty Leung, David Lloyd, Paulo Majano, Scott McBride, PLAID: Nancy Duff & Alison MacTaggart, Monique Silverman, Ken Singer. Continues to November 1

Optic Ear
Building on the legacy of 1960s Op Art this exhibition presents three works of media art (film, video and computer graphics) that strip down their respective mediums to their bare essentials revealing the close link between sound, image and geometrical abstraction in time-based media from the 1970s. The artists in this exhibition are Norman McLaren, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and Elizabeth Vander Zaag. Continues to December 13.

Ryoji Ikeda, Infinite Egress and Optic Ear are curated by Jordan Strom, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Surrey Art Gallery.

Opening Reception Party for four exhibitions
Saturday, September 26, 7–9pm (formal remarks at 7:30pm)

Ryoji Ikeda, Babak Golkar, Robert Kleyn and various Kwantlen Fine Arts Faculty will be in attendance.
Live performance by Coin Gutter. Refreshments provided.
Free admission

*A shuttle bus (with Surrey Art Gallery signage) designated for the Opening Reception Party will pick up from Surrey Central Skytrain station (at the Handy Dart bus stop beside Urban Expresso) at 6:20pm and 7pm. Alternatively, visitors can take the #321 “Newton Exchange/ White Rock Centre/ White Rock South” bus to 88 Avenue (leaving at 8 minute intervals from the Surrey Central bus station).

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Surrey Art Gallery

604-501-5566 | www.arts.surrey.ca

13750 – 88 Avenue,

Surrey, BC  CANADA   V3W 3L1

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