2015Spr


Instructor



Arts 185GL: Optical-Computational Culture


George Legrady
Arts Building E-Studio rm 220, Tues-Thurs 10am-11:30am


Course Description

Art 185GL Optical-Digital Culture: An open studio course where each student creates an experimental project based on connecting an optical sensing device (lens/sensor/camera) to a computer and output the data in some recognizable form (screen, speakers, mechanical devices, etc.)  in essence, the camera obscura of the present. 

The production may be team-based addressing the question “What are innovative ways to connect a camera to a computer and have the results electronically presented”. 


[3.31]......

Camera/Screen Installation
Camera Obscura

[4.02]......
Course Introduction

Musings on a Glass Box [youtube] [Diller/Scofidio]
Rebecca Cummins | Abelardo Morell | wikipedia

Design Process

[4.07]......

Motion Tracking
Camera Sensor

[4.09]......
Kinect | Asus demonstration

Krueger | Rokeby | Rinaldo | Utterback | Art + Com | Synchronous Tracking
Moeller | Jeremichenko

Kinect | MC3D | Asus | Processing | Creative Applications

[4.14]......

Reading

[4.16].....


Artists
Student Background PPT | What is a camera?

New cameras don't just capture photons; they compute pictures

Photoshop Image Processing Basics


Jason Salavon | Khan | Campbell

[4.21]......

[4.23]......

Slit Scan artists
Rodger Photoshop

Slit Scan


Golan Levin | Monica Quinlan |

[4.28]......

Reference


[4.30]......

BigShot Assembly

BigShot Camera | camera as computer | Shree Nayar | VideoCameraWithoutBattery

Imaging Lens | Electronics | Image Sensor | Image Processing

[5.05]......

New Directions in Cameras

[5.07]......
Expression/Exploration: Time, Depth & Space Expansion

Fosera Camera | Lytro camera [cnet video] | LightField Photography

Lab


[5.12]......

Examples

[5.14]......

Anamorph [wiki]

[Holbein's Ambassadors] [anamorph] [Schön] [aura | szmz] [other]

Lab

[5.19]......

[5.21]......
Project Work-in_Progress

Lab


[5.26]......

[5.28]......
Discussion

Lab


[6.02]...... Dead Week Individual meetings TBD

[6.04]......
Dear Week production
[6.09]......
Final Presentations

David Aleman
Nedda Amini
Joseph Rivera



References
Arts 130 Optical Digital Culture
Computational Photography

Lauren Bon | KCET Docoumentary | Marco Breuer

Technical
Kinect [wired] | Asus | GoPro

Grading Online research and Literature Review 30%
Class participation 30%
Completion of project and online report 40%

The course is designed to be self-directed (DIY). Each student will prepare a project concept which they will realize in the course. Completion of the course includes 1) project conceptualization, 2) project realization, 3) project articulation - with All students will be expected to perform at the level of their expertise.