Art 551
| spring
2010
schedule
N.B. The schedule may fluctuate slightly due to possible additions of guest presenters.
week 1:
monday (3/29)
Introductions
Logistical issues
Discussion of required materials (due by the end of second week).
Opening Ideas
Introduction to Max/MSP/Jitter programming environment
***Assignment for next class:
1. Write a patch that generates 30-60 seconds of sound. You will present the work as automata (will be performed in class).
2. Log into the online discussion forum. Introduce yourself and your creative practice on the forum.
wednesday
Continuation of Max/MSP/Jitter investigation
Components of coding in Max5, particularly as it relates to sound (MSP)
***Assignment for next class: Write a patch that generates 30-60 seconds of sound. You will perform the patch yourself. (will be performed in class).
***Reading Assignment: The Future of Music: Credo, John Cage - 1937
week 2:
monday (4/5)
Further discussion of sound and coding in Max environment
Discussion of components of sound in general
Finish discussion of sound
Introduction to data mapping, and advanced signal conditioning
discussion of HID as protocol
***Reading Assignment: The Art of Noises, Luigi Russolo, 1913
1. Response #1: Write a minimum of a one paragraph response to at least one of the readings, focussing on one idea as a whole you find compelling.
2. Additionally, respond with a minimum of one paragraph to another students' post. Try to connect these ideas with what we also watched and discussed in class.
wednesday
Introduction to Hardware Hacking
What’s going on inside consumer electronics?
Introduction to basic board level electronics
MidiTron and Max/MSP (the World of 5v to HID via USB)
Discussion of Available Sensor Technology and Demonstration
***Assignment for next class:
1. Incorporate USB-HID data (via game controller or other device) into one of your existing patches, or write a new patch altogether. Be prepared to share with the class.
2. Read: Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative (click on the first “p” from the splash page), John Oswald.
3. Bring in a disposal electronic object to take a apart in class (thrift-store toys are good for this)
week 3:
monday (4/12)
***All student should have the MidiTron and USB interface by this day
Review basic electronic circuitry
Recap discussion of Sensing and Interactivity
Introduction to video in Max
***Assignment for next class:
1. Using the MidiTron, create an 5 LED circuit and write a patch in Max to control them. Be prepared to share with the class.
2. Response #2: Write a minimum of a one paragraph response to the forum on at least one of the readings, focussing on one idea as a whole you find compelling.
3. Additionally, respond with a minimum of one paragraph to another students' post. Try to connect these ideas with what we also watched and discussed in class.
4. Begin to develop ideas for Final Project
wednesday
Continuation of video in Max
Parsing a Max patch
Basic patch logic review
Recap discussion of Sensing and Interactivity
***Assignment for next class:
1. Using the MidiTron, incorporate some kind of sensor data into a new patch, which will change through at least 3 separate states of operation through your data control. Be prepared to share with the class.
2. Read: Dependant Participation: Bruce Nauman's Environments, by Janet Kraynak (2003).
3. Continue to develop your final project ideas.
week 4:
monday (4/19)
Digital control of objects with Max
Motor control
Lights
AC/DC
Astley Control
***Assignment for next class:
1. Response #3: Write a minimum of a one paragraph response to the forum on at least one of the readings, focussing on one idea as a whole you find compelling.
2. Additionally, respond with a minimum of one paragraph to another students' post. Try to connect these ideas with what we also watched and discussed in class.
3. Read: Hardware: The Videosphere, Gene Youngblood (1970).
4. Be prepared to share your sketches with the instructor on Monday.
wednesday
Final Project proposals/critique
share sketches with the class.
week 5:
monday (4/26)
Discussion of Transduction
Speakers, Microphone, Human Ear+Brain
Acoustic Sounds, Frequency ranges, Fletcher-Munsen Curve
How to build a Piezo contact microphone
Further Discussion of Time:
Real-time vs. Recorded time, and the closing gap
Utilizing others’ work in Max
VST’s and external objects
Discussion on time-based media and Memory
Time: Form considerations
***Assignment for next class:
1. Find 3 different Max/MSP/Jitter externals on the web. Be prepared to talk about what they do, who designed them, why their interesting, and give a bried demonstration.
2. Bring to class at beginning of class 2-paragraph written description of your final project idea and good sketches. Place electronic version in the instructor's drop-box
wednesday
Discussion of found externals
Introduction to sound spatialization, psychoacoustics, and ambisonics
Other Synthesis Techniques
***Assignment for next class:
1. Continue working on refinements of your final project sketches and schematics. Be sure to include the processes of your software in these sketches.
week 6:
monday (5/3)
Discussion of considerations for your original software:
Plug&Play GUI or obtuse artifact?
Patch architecture – subpatches, abstractions, stand-alones
***Assignment for next class:
1. Come prepared to class with DETAILED DRAWINGS OF YOUR IDEA TO BE DISCUSSED WITH YOUR INSTRUCTOR. Include a complete parts list. Turn these into the drop-box.
2. Begin research on one new media artist of your choice.
wednesday
Catch up on class discussions
Remaining time to be used as a Studio Day – Pursue projects in class.
***Assignment for Wednesday:
1. Reading to be distributed in class
2. Continue research on new media artist of your choice
week 7:
monday (5/10)
New media artist presentations #1
Studio Day – Pursue projects in class.
***Assignment for next class:
1. Reading to be distributed in class
2. Continue research on new media artist of your choice
wednesday
New media artist presentations #2
Studio Day – Pursue projects in class.
***Assignment for Wednesday:
1. prepare your working electronics for an in-class demonstration
week 8:
monday (5/17)
***Bring your functioning electronics and software for your project to class for a brief demonstration.
Studio Day – Pursue projects in class.
***Assignment for next class:
1. Response #4: Write a minimum of a one paragraph response to the forum on at least one of the readings, focussing on one idea as a whole you find compelling.
2. Additionally, respond with a minimum of one paragraph to another students' post. Try to connect these ideas with what we also watched and discussed in class.
wednesday
week 9:
monday (5/24)
Studio Day – Pursue projects in class.
***Bring to class your complete or nearly complete project to share with instructor.
wednesday
Final Critique.
week 10:
monday (5/31) - NO CLASS
wednesday
Presentation of Projects in Art and Tech show: Future Photon
Future Photon, Opening Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 from 5pm to 9pm - Video and animation screenings at 7 pm in room 206.
Haskett Haskett Hall Gallery, Soundstage, 2nd, 3rd floors at The Ohio State University, 156 W. 19th Ave. Open hours Friday 11:30-4 Free + Glowing foods and emissive cheese chunk refreshments.
FUTURE PHOTON is the fall quarter juried showcase of Art + Technology undergraduateand graduate students working in new media, hybrid forms, video,holography, 2D/3D animation/modeling, robotics, sound, digital imagingand web-based artworks. For more information: http://www.artandtech.osu.edu