Arts 130
Digital Visual Culture(4 units)
Tues-Thur 10am-11:30am - arts 1340

The M200a course “Intersections of Art & Technology” is designed for arts-engineering interdisciplinary collaborative work. Students are teamed into 2 person artist-engineer groups to conceptualize and plan out the realization of a media arts project ready for submission to a competition, or festival.

The course begins by formulating artistic practice as a research activity, a form of prototyping of ideas that address materials, systems, processes, structure and content. For engineers and musicians, the course functions as an introduction to the discipline. For artists who come from a wide range of backgrounds, the course provides common ground and a platform where they can contribute their specialized knowledge.

Key topics: Artists in research labs; Media Arts literature overview; Discipline overview; Steps in prototyping; Classification; Data Visualization; Mapping; Optical-Computational processes; Space-Structure-Form; Machine culture; Numeric, geometric, algorithms; Design process; Bio, genetic, eco projects; sound art in installations.

Digital Visual Culture is an upper division course that examines the impact of digital processes on visual culture. The course includes an overview of projects, methods, and resources relevant to artmaking and its reception in the visual, spatial, temporal, conceptual and cultural domains.

The course will discuss the following topics: Selected literature overview; art as prototyping; systems of classification; 1960's Experiments in Arts & Technology; the computational image; time-narrative; space-structure & form; digital visual design; machine culture, robotics; space-time & interactivity; numbers, systems, procedures, data space and algorithms; bio-genetics, self-organizing systems; arts-science hybrid practices.

Courseload consists of lecture attendance, weekly topic reviews, attendance at selected visiting lectures, midterm test, and final report.

A projects based, lecture and lab course to explore the intersections of the optical camera and computers. Lecture topics will trace the use of the optical camera from analog historical models, to experiments in multiple exposure, spatial exploration, uses in surveillance, medical, astronomy, data collection, and cameras as sensors for machine vision and motion sensing.

Students define a project which may focus on creating non-conventional cameras, computer/machine vision, interactive techniques, exploration of devices dealing with optical representation such as anamorphs, or non-optical image scanning (MRI, CAT scans, etc.) Final work is a project documented through a research paper and project presentation.

MAT 259
Visualizing Information (4 units)
Tuesday 11am-1pm, Thursday 11am-1pm - Estudio

A team-taught course with goals to foster engineering-level research in conjunction with the experimental approach of the visual arts. Course consists of lectures, some readings, and team-based production of 3 multimedia projects that explore mathematical visual processes, interactivity and visual perception.

The course’s goals are to foster both engineering level research in conjunction with the experimental approach of the Visual Arts. Due to the inter-disciplinary nature of the course, students will be expected to work in teams, to achieve meaningful results in both Engineering and the Arts.

Course structure: weekly lectures by each faculty followed by lab production work.

A lecture and lab course to explore the visual organization and representation of information. Lectures and readings will focus on a range of conceptual models of data visual mapping as implemented in various disciplines, artistic, statistical and scientific, that are used to represent information visually.

Topics will include: Metadata, systems of classification, algorithmic models, time based linear animation, visual narrative, self-organizing and other mapping and visualization algorithms. Technical lab demonstrations will focus on SQL, PHP, and the Kohonen algorithm. Students will come to the course with the intent to explore and produce visualizations based on data sets of their choice.

Arts 130
Digital Visual Culture(4 units)
Thur 10am-12pm, Friday 10am-12pm - arts 1340

The M200a course “Intersections of Art & Technology” is designed for arts-engineering interdisciplinary collaborative work. Students are teamed into 2 person artist-engineer groups to conceptualize and plan out the realization of a media arts project ready for submission to a competition, or festival.

The course begins by formulating artistic practice as a research activity, a form of prototyping of ideas that address materials, systems, processes, structure and content. For engineers and musicians, the course functions as an introduction to the discipline. For artists who come from a wide range of backgrounds, the course provides common ground and a platform where they can contribute their specialized knowledge.

Key topics: Artists in research labs; Media Arts literature overview; Discipline overview; Steps in prototyping; Classification; Data Visualization; Mapping; Optical-Computational processes; Space-Structure-Form; Machine culture; Numeric, geometric, algorithms; Design process; Bio, genetic, eco projects; sound art in installations.

Digital Visual Culture is an upper division course that provides an overview of projects, methods, and resources representative of the impact of digital processes on artmaking and its reception in the visual, spatial, temporal, conceptual and cultural domains.

The course will discuss the following topics: Selected literature overview; art as prototyping; 1960's Experiments in Arts & Technology; the computational image; time-narrative; space-structure & form; digital visual design; machine culture, robotics; space-time & interactivity; numbers, systems, procedures, data space and algorithms; bio-genetics, self-organizing systems; arts-science hybrid practices.

Courseload consists of lecture attendance, weekly topic reviews, attendance at selected visiting lectures, midterm test, and final report.

MAT 259
Visualizing Information (4 units)
Tuesday 11am-1pm, Thursday 11am-1pm - Estudio

A team-taught course with goals to foster engineering-level research in conjunction with the experimental approach of the visual arts. Course consists of lectures, some readings, and team-based production of 3 multimedia projects that explore mathematical visual processes, interactivity and visual perception.

The course’s goals are to foster both engineering level research in conjunction with the experimental approach of the Visual Arts. Due to the inter-disciplinary nature of the course, students will be expected to work in teams, to achieve meaningful results in both Engineering and the Arts.

Course structure: weekly lectures by each faculty followed by lab production work.

A lecture and lab course to explore the aesthetic organization of information. Lectures and readings will focus on a range of conceptual models of data visual mapping as implemented in various disciplines, artistic, statistical and scientific, that are used to represent information visually.

Topics will include: Metadata, systems of classification, algorithmic models, time based linear animation, visual narrative, self-organizing and other mapping and visualization algorithms. Technical lab demonstrations will focus on SQL, PHP, and the Kohonen algorithm. Students will come to the course with the intent to explore and produce visualizations based on data sets of their choice.

Art 130
Visual Art As Culture(4 units)
Thur 10am-12pm, Friday 10am-12pm - arts 1340

The seminar provides an overview of the digital media arts discipline with an emphasis on innovative technological research as it relates to Visual and Spatial Arts activities. The intention of the 200A CORE seminar is to introduce the issues, directions and institutions of digital media arts practice, provide a range of examples, and reveal multidisciplinary possibilities for intersecting research and production in arts-engineering collaborative projects. Knowledge acquired in this course will be instrumental in shaping research directions and final projects for MAT students.

Exploration of the visual arts in a wide range of socio-cultural and economic contexts. Topics include art’s changing role in relation to the shifting parameters of culture, economy, high and low culture and new technologies.

MAT 259
Visualizing Information (4 units)
Tuesday 10am-12pm, Thursday 10am-12pm - Estudio

A team-taught course with goals to foster engineering-level research in conjunction with the experimental approach of the visual arts. Course consists of lectures, some readings, and team-based production of 3 multimedia projects that explore mathematical visual processes, interactivity and visual perception.

The course’s goals are to foster both engineering level research in conjunction with the experimental approach of the Visual Arts. Due to the inter-disciplinary nature of the course, students will be expected to work in teams, to achieve meaningful results in both Engineering and the Arts.

Course structure: weekly lectures by each faculty followed by lab production work.

A lecture and lab course to investigate the organization of information for visualizations, and explore methods of visualizing data as a way to access new insights.

Lectures and readings will focus on a range of conceptual models of data visual mapping as implemented in scientific visualization: (http://iv.slis.indiana.edu/sw/index.html), and the formal design qualities of data visualization such as (http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/) and (http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/).

Students will come to the course with the intent to produce a visualization based on a set of data of their choice.

A graduate tutorial course focused on individual research and production as determined by instructor.

ARTS 102
Aesthetics of the Algorithmic Image (4 units)
Wed-Fri 10:00-12:00 pm, E-studio, Art Dept, Rm 2220

The seminar provides an overview of the digital media arts discipline with an emphasis on innovative technological research as it relates to Visual and Spatial Arts activities. The intention of the 200A CORE seminar is to introduce the issues, directions and institutions of digital media arts practice, provide a range of examples, and reveal multidisciplinary possibilities for intersecting research and production in arts-engineering collaborative projects. Knowledge acquired in this course will be instrumental in shaping research directions and final projects for MAT students. It is therefore critical that the course be taken in the first year of the MAT graduate studies.

The seminar will incorporate the Digital Media Lecture Series consisting of lectures by visiting digital media practitioners and theorists in conjunction with the IGERT lecture series. Wednesdays meetings will consist of seminar related activities: faculty presentations, class discussions of student readings, research and presentations.

What is a digital image? What are the implications of an art practice that is grounded in numeric code? The focus of this course is to arrive at an understanding of the transformation of the image from analogue to digital data and to discover aesthetic possibilities for algorithmic visualization.

Students will gain production skills in creating and processing digital images through computer code, and learn how to work with algorithms to produce images from pure mathematical data. Topics addressed through weekly lectures, readings, and demos will consider algorithms as an artistic tool for producing visualization: Information Theory’s noise and signal, aesthetics based on the executable code, and the influence of the conceptual art movement of the 1960s.

An introduction to creating through computer code will be the basic production tool.

ARTS 22
Conceptual Strategies in Digital Media (4 units)
Tuesdays 5:00-6:50 pm, HSSB-1173

The course will focus on the production of an interactive installation where aesthetic and technical issues in the production of an interactive telematic visual environment will be addressed. Topics to be covered include visual perception, delivery of real-time televisual signals, design and implementation of 3D devices to control remote cameras, and to record viewer actions, insertion of controlled distortions, and the measurement of significant human responses.

The course’s goals are to foster both engineering level research in conjunction with the experimental approach of the Visual Arts. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the course, students will be expected to work in teams, to achieve meaningful results in both Engineering and the Arts.

Course structure: weekly lectures by each faculty followed by lab production work.

Prerequisites: Art Studio 1A, 4D recommended; open to non-majors. May be repeated for credit to maximum of 8 units. Letter grade required for majors.

Lower Division lecture class, taught at the practical level in section by Teaching Assistants. An introductory course to the digital media arts discipline where students are introduced to conceptual, cultural, technical, theoretical issues and methodologies addressing the production of 2D based digital media projects. Topics addressed include interface design, data classification, information systems, chance, noise, and mapping. Students are introduced to Photoshop, html, and basic programming to realize the assignments.

The seminar provides an overview of the digital media arts discipline with an emphasis on innovative technological research as it relates to Visual and Spatial Arts activities. The intention of the 200A CORE seminar is to introduce the issues, directions and institutions of digital media arts practice, provide a range of examples, and reveal multidisciplinary possibilities for intersecting research and production in arts-engineering collaborative projects. Knowledge acquired in this course will be instrumental in shaping research directions and final projects for MAT students. It is therefore critical that the course be taken in the first year of the MAT graduate studies.

The seminar will incorporate the Digital Media Lecture Series consisting of lectures by visiting digital media practitioners and theorists on Monday evenings. Wednesdays meetings will consist of seminar related activities: faculty presentations, class discussions of student readings, research and presentations. The presentations and final project is to be realized as a web document.

ARTS 102
Digital Media ToolBox (4 units)
THE AESTHETICS OF (VISUAL) NOISE
Tues-Thurs 10:00-12:50 pm, E-studio

MAT594L is a project based tutorial course consisting of research and project realization supervised through individual meetings. Each student defines a research project of interest to them, then a plan for the quarter is defined. The project is realized through the duration of the quarter. Students meet with faculty through individual meetings every week, or every 2nd week. There is a group presentation at the end of the quarter.

The conditions for completion of the course are as follows:
- Research project is defined at beginning
- Project is realized during quarter
- Individual meetings throughout quarter
- Presentation at the end of the quarter
- Web documentation to be added to course website.

ARTS 122
Advanced Projects in Interactive Media (4 units)
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE AESTHETICS OF ALGORITHMIC VISUALIZATION
Tues-Thurs 10:00-12:50 pm, E-studio

The course will consist of an overview of mathematical processes and algorithms related to fundamental engineering results, leading to innovative experimentations in visualizations through the learned algorithms. Topics to be covered include 1) Filtering, sampling, and reconstruction, 2) Fourier Series, Orthogonal Series, and Approximations, 3) Convolution and System Response, 4) Transfer Functions and Filtering, 5) Mutual Information, 6) The likelihood ratio and hypothesis testing, 7) Markov Chains, 8) Discrete Transforms, Self-similar transforms.

The course’s goals are to foster both engineering level research in conjunction with the experimental approach of the Visual Arts. Due to the inter-disciplinary nature of the course, students will be expected to work in teams, to achieve meaningful results in both Engineering and the Arts.

Course structure: weekly lectures by each faculty followed by lab production work.

MAT 253 is a self-directed project based course where each student will be responsible for defining all aspects of their project's goals, production and realization. The projects can address any topic of individual interest and any production goals from pure technical solutions to applied or creative work as long as it integrates camera vision, the issue of interface and digital technology. The expectation is that students will be conversant or acquire the necessary technical skills to realize a working project or tangible product such as a software, a prototype, or an artwork. Interdisciplinary team-based work is encouraged as the function of the course is to provide a forum for concept development, solution methods, information exchange and project realization.

The seminar provides an overview of developments in digital media practice of the last four decades with an emphasis on the intersection of art practice and innovative technological research as it relates to visual and spatial arts. The intention of the 200A CORE seminar is to introduce the issues, directions and institutions of digital media practice, provide a range of examples, and reveal multidisciplinary possibilities for intersecting technological research and production in multimedia projects. Knowledge acquired in this course will be instrumental in shaping research directions and final projects for MAT students. It is therefore critical that the course be taken in the first year of the MAT graduate studies.

The seminar will incorporate the Digital Media Lecture Series consisting of regular lectures by visiting digital media practitioners and theorists to be given on Monday evenings from 5mp to 7pm. Wednesdays meetings will consist of faculty presentations, class discussions of student readings, research and presentations. The presentations and final project is to be realized as a web document.

A MAT graduate level projects course in which students will learn how to design and produce an interactive artwork where the movement of the spectator sensed through a video camera in a defined space will be used to control and select data of images and sounds in an installation. Students will work in small teams to design and implement a project of their own which will explore feedback interaction.

The course will concentrate on the conventions and design of interactive installations, and the planning of the dramaturgy for human-computer feedback interaction, taking into consideration the perceptual and social dynamics of audience location and movement. Students will conceptualize and produce a project while learning the technical skills. The task will be to create a work that will be "event" based and successfully integrate sound, text, image through the sensing of movement, or behavior of participants over time.