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Several MAT alumni are involved with NIME 2013 as well. MAT alumnus Woon Seung Yeo is the conference chair, MAT alumni Graham Wakefield and Haru Ji are the installation chairs, and MAT alumnus Dan Overholt will present a paper.
The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) is an annual interdisciplinary conference discussing contemporary topics in electronic musical interface design, research and practice.
MAT professor Ted Kim will present two papers: "Fluid Grids and Meshes" (co-authored by MAT student John Delaney), and "Closest-Point Turbulence for Liquid Surfaces", and teach a course: "Turbulent Fluids".
In addition, two installations will be on exhibit at the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery:
"Mahogany" was composed as part of the Mansion at Strathmore’s Storied Violins series, a series of concerts exploring the multitude of interpretations of violin music in America.
Dr. Alper was first author on the paper titled "Weighted Graph Comparison Techniques for Brain Connectivity Analysis".
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Professor Legrady's project, titled "Bringing Science to Life", aims to position scientific research into the public domain by transforming the museum into a living lab, allowing the public to see the methods and processes by which scientists develop their work. The project will feature 5 to 10 UCSB lab‐based scientific projects that will use this opportunity to engage the public to contribute to the research in direct and tangential ways. Each sub‐theme will be assigned to one or more scientific research project, and be situated in contrast, comparison, or collaboration with one or more artistic research work, or a scientist and artist may decide to explore a particular theme together.
Other seed grant awardees are Sarah Anderson, assistant professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, and David Novak, assistant professor, Music, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts.
A seminar will be held on Thursday, April 25 at 2pm in Girvetz Hall, room 2320, featuring presentations by the three 2013 CNS seed grant awardees.
The grants are awarded under the program "Seed Grants on Societal Issues for New Technologies".
This presentation will be a part of "Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects", a joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (UCLA Dance Studies) conference.
The title of the talks is "Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic".
Dates: April 14th to June 16th.
Opening reception is Saturday, April 13th, 6-8pm. Curated by Warren Schultheis.
For more information, visit: www.sbcaf.org/exhibitions/current.html.
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artsblock.ucr.edu/programs/Off-Site-Visit-to-the-Mojave-Air-Space-Port
MAT Assistant professor Theodore Kim will be delivering a series of talks in Seoul, South Korea, the week of March 17-23. He will be presenting a technical talk, "Turbulence Methods in Computer Graphics" at Seoul National University on March 18th and Ewha University on March 22nd. He will be presenting a general audience talk, "Computing Physical Equations for Artistic Purposes" at Seoul National University on March 19th and Sogang University on March 21st.
MAT Assistant professor Theodore Kim has received a $508,658 grant over 5 years from the National Science Foundation for his proposal "Enabling Efficient Non-Linearities in Biomechanical Simulations" through the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. The CAREER is the most prestigious award offered by the NSF to junior faculty.
The abstract can be found here: www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1253948.
Further information on the NSF CAREER Program can be found here: www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214.
Viewers can stream the talk live at www.youtube.com/user/setiinstitute/feed.
Website: www.seti.org.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awards the grade of Fellow to individuals with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. Professor Turk was chair of the Media Arts and Technology Program from 2005 to 2010.
UCSB College of Engineering news release: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/news/678
Website: http://adaa.jp/2012/e/12_list.html
MAT professor Theodore Kim has been selected to receive a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his 2008 paper "Wavelet Turbulence for Fluid Simulation", which described a technique that has now been used in at least 26 major motion pictures.
Informally known as the "Sci-Tech Oscars", these awards are given to achievements that have demonstrated "a proven record of contributing significant value to the process of making motion pictures". He will be receiving the award in a ceremony on February 9th, along with his collaborators, Nils Thuerey of Scanline VFX, Doug James of Cornell University, and Markus Gross of ETH Zurich.
UCSB press release: www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2912
UCSB Public Affairs and Communications video: vimeo.com/57159948
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences press release: http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2013/20130103.html
For a description and videos, go to: http://www.visualizing.org/visualizations/take-flight
F. Myles Sciotto wrote chapter three, titled "Incepted Projection: Harmonic Perception and Spatial Constructions". Graham Wakefield and Haru Ji wrote chapter four, titled "Virtual World-Making in an Interactive Art Installation: Time of Doubles".
Virtual worlds have attracted considerable attention during the last decade. They have gained notoriety in games such as World of Warcraft and in general purpose worlds such as Second Life. Besides these well-known applications, many research projects study the potentials of creating digital worlds with their own physical and biological laws, populated by interacting entities such as artificial creatures and human avatars. This interdisciplinary volume aims to provoque a new understanding of the important role that computer-generated virtual worlds will play in the near future. The selected papers show the necessary cooperation between science, technology and art, for studying artificial ecosystems and exploring new forms of digital art.
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The award-winning paper is by Steffen Gauglitz, Chris Sweeney, Jonathan Ventura, Matthew Turk, and Tobias Höllerer.
The New Dunites is an interdisciplinary media arts research project that investigates the archeological site where the set for Cecile B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments was buried in 1923. In particular, this multi-phase endeavor involved the gathering of geophysical and archeological data, the historical study of the dawn of cinema in California, and a series of novel interactive multimedia installations that explored new avenues in the representation of scientific and cultural data. Furthermore, we introduce our general approach to experimental media archaeology, whereby scientific and cultural exploration is grounded in grassroots environmental research and a culture of experimental art-making.
Website: www.acmmm12.org/ae
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The New Dunites is an interdisciplinary media arts research project that investigates the archeological site where the set for Cecile B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments was buried in 1923. In particular, this multi-phase endeavor involved the gathering of geophysical and archeological data, the historical study of the dawn of cinema in California, and a series of novel interactive multimedia installations that explored new avenues in the representation of scientific and cultural data. Furthermore, we introduce our general approach to experimental media archaeology, whereby scientific and cultural exploration is grounded in grassroots environmental research and a culture of experimental art-making.
Website: www.acmmm12.org/ae
Architectural Organ I / Skin is part of her ongoing body of work on the relationship between architecture and the body. On view is a cinematic and sculptural installation as a symbolic organ, allowing visitors to unfold their own fantastical narratives of becoming architectural bodies.
Website: istanbuldesignbiennial.iksv.org
A preview of the Biennial installation will be on display during the "Focus on the Funk Zone" Art Walk and Open Studios. Saturday, October 6, 5 - 8:30pm, 42 Helena Street, Santa Barbara.
Website: funkzone.net/focus-on-the-funk-zone
The talk and presentation will be about her video work and the subjective and perceptual qualities of time and space expressed as events, moments, memory and landscape.
Website: www.fabrica.it
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Digiti Sonus is an interactive fingerprint sonification or interactive sound installation that transforms human's fingerprints into musical sound. The idea is to allow audience to explore their own identities through unique sound generated by their fingerprint patterns based on algorithmic computing and a physical device. The captured sound is looped and harmonized with other fingerprint sound so that the result is a real time experimental music as a representation of intergrated human identities and societal communication.
More Info: www.mediacityseoul.kr
Digiti Sonus website: www.yoonchunghan.com/project/digiti-sonus-2012
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Fingerprints are one of the most unique visual patterns in human body. It represents both innate and acquired identities of an individual. In this paper, we focus on relationship between fingerprint patterns and human identities by transforming image into audio. Digiti Sonus, an interactive fingerprint sonification installation, contains a novel idea to facilitate and enhance an interactive auditory meaning by transforming user-intended fingerprint expression into audio spectrogram. In order to enable personalized sonification, the installation employed dynamic filter generation based on minutiae extraction using core-invariant scanning method and image skeletonization.
Website: www.acmmm12.org
This paper introduces a synthesis technique for the design of parametric surfaces. Point pairs (0-spheres) in the 5D conformal model of geometric algebra are used as hyperplane generators of boosting spinors. These point pairs are linearly interpolated to construct continuous transformations. Using this formula, some simple algorithms are proposed, including the spinor which takes a circle to a line tangent to it, and the spinor which curves an equator to its poles. I explore a few techniques for defining such spinors in homogenous coordinates: the translation of tangent vectors, the geometric product of points, and the interpolation of point pairs. Applying these spinors to conformal points and circles provides an novel basis for creating boosted forms.
The concert will include live video by the Singapore-based artist Brian O'Reilly (a former MAT student). The events will also feature a book signing of the Chinese edition in two volumes of Roads's well-known textbook The Computer Music Tutorial.
This years' attendees will be Marko Peljhan (professor), Andres Burbano (PhD student), Yuan-Yi Fan (PhD student), Danny Bazo (PhD student), Xárene Eskandar (PhD student), Marco Pinter (PhD student), and Paul Jacobs (Masters student).
The presentations are:
ISEA 2012 website: www.isea2012.org
F. Myles Sciotto's exhibit "Neural Aural" is an interactive realtime installation which allows the user to hear and see their brainwaves.
Link: soundwalk.org/artists/f-myles-sciotto
Joshua Dickinson's and Muhammad Hafiz's exibit "Drip", is an interactive sound sculpture consisting of 16 tuned metal bars hung from an iron frame. Using Arduino microcontrollers, valves are opened at the top of the structure allowing water drops to fall on the metal bars, producing rhythms and melodies.
Link: soundwalk.org/artists/joshua-dickinson-muhammad-hafiz-wan-rosli
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Harmonious is a project conceived around the nature of translating signals and their inherent nature of existing in 2d into a world of 3d. This process of adding a spatial dimension as extension will undergo a process of both temporal and spatial analysis. The topic of mapping is of significant interest to us and how this process can be utilized for more rigorous and specific understanding of the source data. Going beyond the initial notion of visualization and sonification to one of more physical dimension, we call it objectification. The process of turning the data into a physical object able to be understood by existing in space and stimulating the tactile and haptic nature of existence. We believe objectifying will help in expanding beyond in creating new and novel ways to experience the data, just as experience is what created the data in the first place. Harmonious is a synergy of signal and harmonics, of architecture and proportion. Building worlds in the analysis of our visceral resonance.
The project, named SiNuNi (SIlamilu NUnamulu NIpiliuruti), has designed an extremely low power, compact, modular and waterproof portable computing and recording family of devices, based on the Arduino architectures. These devices implement a true mesh networking capability through low power radio and precise geo-location. It’s modular sensor architecture records basic meteorological, position and movement data, but it can be outfitted with an array of sensors as diverse as water turbidity, temperature, salinity and p.e. light quality and structure measurements. The open standards used in the software and hardware development ensure that the system can be built, modified and replicated. The units will also enable geo-located audio recording and wildlife observations and note taking through a simple, robust and intuitive interface. Team members include MAT PhD students Muhammad Hafiz Wan Rosli and Kon-Hyong Kim.
Dr. Cabrera received the PhD in Music Technology from Queen’s University Belfast with a dissertation titled "Control of Source Width Through Sinusoidal Modeling for Multichannel Reproduction", under the direction of professor Gary Kendall, a pioneer of computer music. Dr. Cabrera has previously served as a Lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and the Universidad de los Andes, both in his native Bogota, Colombia. Dr. Cabrera is an active software developer and practicing audio engineer, being the developer of the widely-distributed Csound development environment CsoundQt. His primary research interests are spatial audio and user interface design.
Link: On the Intricacies of Hollywood Archaeology
The New Dunites is a site-specific media art project comprised of research, an augmented reality application, and an interactive multimedia installation. The project investigates a culturally unique and biologically diverse geographic site; the Guadalupe-Nipomo Coastal Dunes. Buried under these dunes are the ruins of the set of DeMille’s 1923 epic film, "The Ten Commandments".
The project employed Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) technology to gather data on this artifact of film history. In an attempt to articulate and mediate the interaction between humans and this special environment, we are constructing an ecology of interfaces (from mobile device apps to gallery installations) that will use this data as their primary input. The members of the project are Andres Burbano, Solen Kiratli DiCicco and Danny Bazo.
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Everyday materials such as biological tissue exhibit geometric and constitutive non-linearities which are crucial in applications such as surgical simulation and realistic human animation. However, these same non-linearities also make efficient finite element simulation difficult, as computing non-linear forces and their Jacobians can be computationally intensive. Reduced order methods, which limit simulations to a low-dimensional subspace, have the potential to accelerate these simulations by orders of magnitude. In this talk, I will describe a subspace method we have developed that efficiently computes all the necessary non-linear quantities by evaluating them at a discrete set of "cubature" points, an online integration method that can accelerate simulations even when the subspace is not known a priori, and a domain decomposition method that efficiently adds deformations to discretely partitioned, articulated simulations. Using our methods, we have observed speedups of one to four orders of magnitude.
Website: www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/11-12/CAIMS_SCMAI/computational-and-discrete-math.html
Website: conferences.library.gatech.edu/icad/index.php/icad/icad2012
In this installation, a photographic image is repeatedly sliced in half, and eventually reduced to an abstract form which, in turn, is recreated as a different image. The software generates the visual compositions in real time, and the animation cycle lasts 30 minutes, using about six different images. The installation includes software development by Yun Teng.
Website: www.emocaoartficial.org.br/en/artistas-e-obras/emocao-art-ficial-6-0
Their presentations were:
Virtual Pottery: An Interactive Audio-Visual Installation by Yoon Chung Han
SenSynth: a Mobile Application for Dynamic Sensor to Sound Mapping by Ryan McGee
Further Developments in the Electromagnetically Sustained Rhodes Piano by Greg Shear, Matt Wright
Mobile Controls On-The-Fly: An Abstraction for Distributed NIMEs by Charles Roberts, Graham Wakefield, Matthew Wright
Website: www.eecs.umich.edu/nime2012
The SENSING RESILIENCE workshop will be led by two of the developers of the system, Kon-Hyong Kim and Muhammad Hafiz Wan Rosli and will comprise the presentation of the SINUNI architecture and a hands on section, including the implementation of the network and its solutions in the context of the Time’s Up gardening endeavors - especially the Non-Green-Gardening project by Natalia Borissova. The workshop will start by a short online SINUNI introduction by the project PI and lab director Marko Peljhan.
In 2010 and 2011 the Arctic Perspective Initiative developed and for the first time experimentally deployed a robust open hardware sensor network and communication system, the SINUNI (SILAMILU NUNAMULU NIPILIURUTI).
The SINUNI is an extremely low power, compact, modular and waterproof portable computing and recording family of devices, based on the Arduino architectures implementing a true mesh networking capability through low power radio and precise geo-location. It’s modular sensor architecture records basic meteorological, position and movement data, but it can be outfitted with an array of sensors as diverse as water turbidity, temperature, salinity and p.e. light quality and structure measurements. The open standards used in the software and hardware development ensure that the system can be built, modified and replicated. The units will also enable geo-located audio recording and wildlife observations and note taking through a simple, robust and intuitive interface.
In the context of the RESILIENTS project, which is a collaborative effort of several European arts/culture/technology organisation with the collaboration of the MAT SYSTEMICS lab, SINUNI will serve as a sensor device of choice for recording field work data and travels, but version of it can be implemented at fixed locations, to monitor soil and nutrients conditions in the RESILIENT gardens.
For more information, go to: www.timesup.org
The Experimental Visualization Lab also received a $124,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
For more information, go to: www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2670
Website: www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/27/kinetic-sculptures-object-permanence
Website: www.siggraph.org/asia2011/artgallery-detail?id=52&session=artgallery&event=208
Website: http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/14/invisible-computing-comes-to-asia-tech-expo.html
Marco Pinter's dance company, Fractal Movement, will also perform "Gravitational Forces" and new works in the same space, February 2, 7pm.
A professor of history at UCSB, W. Patrick McCray was awarded this honor for "distinguished contributions to scholarship and education in history of science, technology and instrumentation, particularly in the areas of intellectual and social interactions in recent astronomy and physics".