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e11 tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3 2007-05-16T21:56:36Z Digital Multimedia Art • Harvard University Extension • Taught by Roy Pardi Movable Type 3.34 Final Projects tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.54 2007-05-16T19:08:06Z 2007-05-16T21:56:36Z

Ok - here we go: Karl Ozaeta Giovanni Gensale jeungah kim Jenny Davis Guinevere Moyle Jason Meinert Ashley Umbro Anthony Cahillane Jennifer Grygiel Sarah Tan Rasvan ILIESCU Christian Botting Mike Pastore Andrea Piekarski...

Karl Ozaeta Giovanni Gensale jeungah kim Jenny Davis Guinevere Moyle Jason Meinert Ashley Umbro Anthony Cahillane Jennifer Grygiel Sarah Tan Rasvan ILIESCU Christian Botting Mike Pastore Andrea Piekarski ]]> The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.53 2007-05-02T17:01:42Z 2007-05-02T17:10:25Z

Tonight we will be experimenting with an old Surrealist composition technique: exquisite corpse. Among Surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse). Based on an...

Among Surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse). Based on an old parlor game, it was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution. The technique got its name from results obtained in initial playing, "Le cadavre / exquis / boira / le vin / nouveau" (The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine). Other examples are: "The dormitory of friable little girls puts the odious box right" and "The Senegal oyster will eat the tricolor bread." These poetic fragments were felt to reveal what Nicolas Calas characterized as the "unconscious reality in the personality of the group" resulting from a process of what Ernst called "mental contagion." Ref. Exquisite Corpse (link) (link) Class work files (link) Starting Instructions]]> Sebastian's example files tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.52 2007-04-30T13:19:42Z 2007-04-30T13:23:36Z

Here are Sebastian's example files from last week (link))...

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Example site using the drawing API Webcam motion tracking using Bitmapdata API A demo of motion tracking A game using motion tracking...

Example site using the drawing API Webcam motion tracking using Bitmapdata API A demo of motion tracking A game using motion tracking]]> Adobe Boston Users Group tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.50 2007-04-19T03:16:17Z 2007-04-19T03:18:46Z

Adobe Boston Users Group website is at: http://www.abug.us The Boston Flash Platform User Group's website is at: http://www.bfpug.com ---------------------------------------- Topic: Flash Physics Simulations Presenter: James Battat Aaron Gibralter Date: Thursday, April 19, 2007 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM Cost: Free...

http://www.abug.us The Boston Flash Platform User Group's website is at: http://www.bfpug.com ---------------------------------------- Topic: Flash Physics Simulations Presenter: James Battat Aaron Gibralter Date: Thursday, April 19, 2007 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM Cost: Free Where: MIT Stata Building AKA Building 32, on this map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg Room 32-141 Description: As part of a Harvard Presidential Instructional Technology Fellowship (PITF) summer project we developed a suite of interactive mechanical physics simulations for a course on Mechanical Systems. Physical systems can exhibit complex behavior. With the use of computer simulations, it is possible to teach students about the nature of these systems without trudging through complicated differential equations. We found that several canned animations demonstrating physical phenomena existed on the web, but we noticed a surprising lack of full-up interactive physics simulation engines in Flash. We aimed to fill that void by developing a virtual physics lab using Flash (ActionScript 2.0). We modeled our work on the open-source Java project at www.MyPhysicsLab.com. ]]> We'll tell you about our class-based project, demo our simulations, and explain how various components of our software (e.g. a graphing package) could be useful to other projects. In addition, we encourage you to use and/or further develop this software. The interactive simulations can be seen at: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jbattat/pitf/engin125/ Bios: James Battat is a graduate student in Astronomy at Harvard. He appreciates it when visualization technology is integrated into the classroom. When he's not programming in ActionScript, he can be found testing relativity by shining laser beams off of reflectors on the moon's surface and measuring the Earth-Moon separation to 1 millimeter precision. Aaron Gibralter is graduating from Harvard College in June 2007. Having studied physics in his undergraduate career, including the mechanical systems simulated in these Flash animations, he understands the usefulness of interactive, visual representations of physical systems. Aaron hopes that these animations will help engage students in often abstractly and mathematically represented systems (as he most often encountered in his physics classes), and in turn help them to better understand the physical behavior. In addition to ActionScript coding, Aaron enjoys building database-driven, MVC-oriented websites in frameworks such as Ruby on Rails. Details tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.49 2007-04-14T15:33:15Z 2007-04-14T16:11:53Z

Here's what is on the menu for the next two weeks Next week I will do walk-throughs on the topics below. See the links for the relevant tutorials: Preloader (link) Network/Database Communication (link) (link) Masking (link) (link) Multidimensional Arrays (link)...

link) Network/Database Communication (link) (link) Masking (link) (link) Multidimensional Arrays (link) Sebastian will discuss these topics the following week: Components (link) (link) Imaging API/Drawing API (link)]]> Follow Up tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.48 2007-04-12T01:02:39Z 2007-04-12T01:08:41Z

Star Animation Example File: Download file Here is the list of topics we came up with. Got another - email me! Preloader Imaging API/Drawing API Components Masking Multi-dimensional Arrays Network/Database Communication...

Download file Here is the list of topics we came up with. Got another - email me! Preloader Imaging API/Drawing API Components Masking Multi-dimensional Arrays Network/Database Communication]]> Project 3 tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.47 2007-04-11T20:37:07Z 2007-04-18T17:33:26Z

Here are the projects I have received so far: Jeungah Kim Giovanni Gensale Karl Ozaeta Andrea Piekarski Jenny Davis April.Gardner Mike Pastore Sarah Tan Jason Meinert Christian Botting Andrea Parent David Becker Rasvan Iliescu...

Jeungah Kim Giovanni Gensale Karl Ozaeta Andrea Piekarski Jenny Davis April.Gardner Mike Pastore Sarah Tan Jason Meinert Christian Botting Andrea Parent David Becker Rasvan Iliescu]]> Final Project Assignment Posted! tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.46 2007-04-11T16:22:24Z 2007-04-11T16:24:25Z

Details on the Final Project assignment can be viewed here...

here]]> Excellent Flash/Actionscript Tutorial Site tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.45 2007-04-05T02:52:09Z 2007-04-05T02:57:49Z

I just discovered the Flash-Creations.com site and I highly recommend spending some time digging through it - both for general techniques and scripting tutorials. The references and examples are excellent! Notes Section Main Page...

Notes Section Main Page]]> Post Pong tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.44 2007-04-04T17:22:59Z 2007-04-04T21:15:10Z

Tonight's work files: Download file We will be covering loading movieClips on the fly using attachMovie/removeMovieClip, arrays and Listeners (Key + Mouse). Array Tutorial Key.addListener Tutorial...

Download file We will be covering loading movieClips on the fly using attachMovie/removeMovieClip, arrays and Listeners (Key + Mouse). Array Tutorial Key.addListener Tutorial]]> Tonight's file tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.43 2007-03-22T00:42:01Z 2007-03-22T01:47:29Z

Here's the simple pong file that I put together at the end of class Download file...

Download file ]]> Floating Points Lecture Series at Emerson College tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.42 2007-03-21T20:15:03Z 2007-03-21T21:21:38Z

OurFloatingPoints 4: Participatory Media: McKenzie Wark and David Weinberger http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/ DATE: March 28, 7 pm VENUE: Emerson College, Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont Street, Boston STREAMED LIVE: http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/2007/live.php BROADCAST TO SECOND LIFE: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Emerson%20Island/153/109/24 FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!...

Yes, tonight we will have a quiz to review the Pong related scripting. Here again is the work file. This is intended to be a low stress quiz to identify any problems or questions in writing basic actionscript. You will...

work file. This is intended to be a low stress quiz to identify any problems or questions in writing basic actionscript. You will be able to use the Flash help but not the completed 'faux pong' file elsewhere on this site. We will also answer questions and provide help in the event you get stuck. Project Submissions When submitting your projects, please do not send me the source. Instead you should .zip it, put it on your web site and send me the URL, along with the URL to view your project. Also, please name your Flash source file with the following convention: firstInitial_lastName_projectNumber.fla So my Project 3 would be: rPardi_p3.fla]]> The Detail Exhibit at Incident tag:www.roypardi.com,2007:/e11_07//3.40 2007-03-21T18:47:58Z 2007-03-21T19:53:48Z

There are some interesting art examples at the Incident web site, including some dealing with memory and time. --from the exhibit notes: THE DETAIL Between the subject and the object, between the perceiver and the perceived. As we shift from...

Incident web site, including some dealing with memory and time. --from the exhibit notes: THE DETAIL Between the subject and the object, between the perceiver and the perceived. As we shift from the detail to the entirety, the change in scale is ascertained through comparison. Can a detail exist all by itself? Would it still be a detail? Do we have to stop once we arrive at the detail? Can't we just keep going until the detail breaks up into endless fragments of further details?]]> We go from a human being to the body to the hand to the skin, the material of the skin, to pigments, eventually are we even looking at matter at all? The detail is a voyage of perception. What does perception see in a detail? Does it reflect? Is one detail ever alone? Once we reach the detail through this tortuous path of perception, don't we actually find ourselves in an infinite multiplicity? If our perception is shifting, doesn't this imply heterogeneity? How do we decide what is revealed by the visible, and what we see, and how relevant it is to us? Today's technologies of memory also propose new ways of navigating, travelling through memory, radicalizing the question of the detail and of the other to which it necessarily refers. A detail is never alone, and when it is, it is testament to its isolation, because it is missing something. What is a detail on the Internet? How do we define a hierarchy by which we can go from the detail to the whole or vice versa? If it is hopeless to attempt to find anything which could be called 'the final detail' which would complete our whole, how can we even begin to speak of details? Yet, we get the sense of never seeing anything more than fragmentary details. The whole is a default, as is reason. As we go from one detail, one perception to the next, we can stop, we may pause, but there is never a good reason to. The world is disconnected. The detail concerns aesthetics as much as it does thinking. The word itself implies a hierarchy: a detail is something particular, an ornament, nothing of importance, something which may even be on the edge of nothingness. But it is also precision, sophistication, if not subtlety. It is still part of something, a piece, a remnant. The detail is not a concept. Walter Benjamin described "a thought of detail": Let's remember this garden, this grass, these blades of grass, each blade is unique and has as much to do with the next blade as with anything else. It is through the irremediable vulgarity of thinking that we perceive anything that could be described as 'grass' forgetting the singularity of each detail. How do interactive cross-referencing, database stratification, and the capacity for unceasing movement of today's technology account for this implied 'other' which is the aesthetic of details? Is it possible to elaborate a perception of details which does not refer back, through the sign of missing something, to an initial totality? A detail, but without nostalgia. Gregory Chatonsky