AD 406 - Introduction to Responsive Arts

SCHEDULE

IN CLASS WORK

HOMEWORK

WEEK 1	Course Overview
Jan 14	Introduction, overview of syllabus and schedule Theo Jansen, 1, 2, and simulation , Ken Goldberg (telegarden 1, 2), David Rokeby's Very Nervous System, Marie Sester, Eduardo Kac, Telepresence, Marten Wattenberg In Class: Surf you must - find a link to a project that amazes you, write a a short review (at least 5 sentences or so, written in your own words), and we will get our class blog rolling. Intro to Blogger	readings due: Art in the Age of Digital Distribution by Mark Tribe and Reena Jana, from New Media Art Write your first blog and have it prepared for next class.
Jan 16	posting to Blogger: a How To Video: Jon Ippolito Links: Infosthetics \| net.art Marten Wattenberg 1, 2 http://www.sodaplay.com/ http://www.theyrule.net/ sunlightfoundation Jason Salavon Joshua Davies http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ http://infosthetics.com/archives/infovis/	Open Book Quiz: will be emailed to you Post to Blog (a new one - not the one you wrote for class today) Suggested Links: creative commons mark napier yael kanarek, world of awe young hae chang heavy industries lisa jevbratt JODI
WEEK 2	Basic Electronics 1.0
Jan 21	MLK Day ...no class...
Jan 23	Basic Electronics 101: An overview of components Working safely with electricity and multimeters Making basic switch circuits and powering LED's Resource Links Electronic Components (read about resistors, capacitors, and LEDs!) Using a multimeter - General and Specific	Read: Basic Electronics, Basic Components Supplemental: Lessons in Electronic Circuits I, Interactive Electronics (Rinaldo's Guide in Pickup folder), pp 52-58, 60
WEEK 3	interaction design \| responsive architecture
Jan 28	Examples of LED and Switch projects Continued discussion of basic electronic components, circuit design schematics, and AC vs DC power Soldering together the LED circuit Resisters: variable vs. fixed Demo: graphite resistor Resource Links resistors and variable resistors: potentiometers and photo resisters Diana Burgoyne, magnetic strip resistor Ken Rinaldo Guide Switch Tutorial + Switch Tutorial 2 Soldering and More Soldering	begin project: Creative Switches Examples from past classes: link 1, link 2 Read: Basic_Electronics_Flow Post to Blog
Jan 30	Basic Electronics 102: more Ohm's Law, series and parallel circuits Remember: A 12V battery wired to four 3V LEDs in series would distribute 3V to each of the LEDs. But that same 12V battery wired to four 3V LEDs in parallel would deliver the full 12V to each LED - enough to burn out the LEDs for sure! Formula: R = (V1 - V2) / I V1 = power suly voltage V2 = LED voltage I = LED current (usually 20mA which is .02A) Discussion: of Digital Distribution Reading Resource Links LED Tutorial Resistor tutorial LED and Resistor Calculator How to Read a Resistor, resistor widget	Work on: Creative Switch I Read: Basic_Electronics: Basic_Electronics_2, Ohms Law, LEDs for beginners, Resistors Optional: Bring in a piece of dead technology to cannibalize or a cheap electronic toy to hack (and some screwdrivers + tools if you have them)
WEEK 4	Basic Electronics 1.2
Feb 4	Review: Series vs Parallel Circuits Using a breadboard Work in class on Creative Switches project Methods for building things + taking them apart, techniques for 'rugged' fabrication: silcone glue, heatshrink, copper tape, springs Demo: making a pressure switch Resource Links Conductive Thread and Glue Conductive Fabric and Thread Quick and easy pressure switch	Work On: Creative Switch I Post to Blog
Feb 6	Work in class on Creative Switches project Demo: dremel, hot knife The way things go by Fischli and Weiss	Project Due: Creative Switch I
WEEK 5	Intro to PD/gem
Feb 11	Critique and Documentation of Creative Switches	Post to Blog Read: Rinaldo's Chapter 14 Materiality: Conceptualizing and Designing Your Project Digital Artists' Handbook - About Digital Artists' Handbook - Digital Artists' Handbook Digital Artists' Handbook - Graphics (intro)
Feb 13	Demo: PD/Gem + Mouse Hack PDGEM_0.htm Mouse hack procedure: Mouse-hack.htm PD/Gem assignment	Read: Living Skins pdf in pickup folder
WEEK 6	pd/GEM Switch
Feb 18	PD/Gem Continued	Due: PD/gem assignment 1 Post to Blog
Feb 20	PD/Gem Continued Resource Links David Crawford - stop motion Perceptive Pixel DIY gloves Ann Hamilton one and two Heidi Kumao dumbType	Read: Fogg: Conceptual Design and The History of the Interface in Interactive Art by Soke Dinkla Work on: PD/gem assignment 2 (gestural) Email: to the whole class list your one page final project proposal
WEEK 7	pd/GEM Switch Cont'd
Feb 25	Work in class: PD/gem Assignment on Gesture Discussions on PD/gem readings	Project Due: PD/gem assignment 2 Project Organize the final Project Homework Post to Blog
Feb 27	Crit: PD/gem assignment 2 (gestural)	Email us: by the start of class, initial description of your group project, the names of the group members, and at least 2 DYI links for the project. Meet outside of class with your potential group members.
WEEK 8	Return to Analog
Mar 3	Demos: Pick up - Mic Understanding transistors simple photo resistor circuit Resource Links Reading schematics + circuit designs: Electronic Symbols Chart Radioshack and Mims circuit books "Design is easy. Social competence is the most difficult thing to teach." Joachim Sauter "There is no point in inventing anything unless it is an improvement." Adolf Loos Christian Moller Achim Wollschied Blinkenlights Graffiti Research Lab	Wire up a plug as shown in class (due Wed) Post to Blog
Mar 5	Demos: Motion sensor Meetings with groups Joachim Sauter setpixel Bloomberg ICE, original link The Listening Post by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin Camille Utterback, Text Rain Golan Levin, Manual Input Sessions, Messa di Voce Lo/Tek Michael Rakowitz Kenji Yanobe Lee Bul 1, 2, 3 Guerrilla Innovation Resource	lMany of you owe us the 300 word updated description and DIY links!! Send them in ASAP. If you choose to do a paper instead of a new media project, then Due Monday, Write: one half page summary of your porposed paper / presentation and email it before class on Monday
WEEK 9	Basic Stamp
Mar 10	Intro to the Basic Stamp microcontroller + pBasic Basic Stamp: if then statements for next loops Demo: Lightcontrol with basic stamp	readings due: Invention
Mar 12	Basic Stamp microcontroller: Light + sound control photoresistors and switches Sensors - possibilities - Theremin Demo: sound modulation with photoresistor http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ Electronic Disturbence Theater Natalie Jeremijenko Critical Art Ensemble, RTMark Radical Software Group illegal-art.org futurefarmers Krzysztof Wodiczko	Complete the Site specific Installation application form (if applicable) - Email us the answers Post to Blog
WEEK 10	Basic Stamp cont'd
Mar 17	Meetings with groups - continued Basic Stamp microcontroller continued	Email us: by the start of next class: 1) the detailed initial tasks of each group member: ie, sabrina will find pricing on 1000 bright white LEDs. 2) a rough budget list for your project including links to real parts, part numbers, and a budget total
Mar 19	Basic Stamp: pwm with light and with Motor buttons + switches relay and transistor: signal out understanding relays Intro to actuators, small motors, and basic mechanical systems Wim Delvoye (Cloaca), Kenneth Feingold, Bill Vorn, Arthur Ganson, Peter W. Holden, Chico McMurtrie, SRL, Tim Hawkinson, Lincoln Schatz, George Gessert, Louis Bec, ELF, Erik Samakh,	Create 2 concept sketches of your installation. This can be front and side views or, front and detail views. You can either do this as a pencil sketch, or as a photoshop composite. You will hand the sketches in and they will be posted for all to see in room 3315. So, do not give us originals - make a copy for yourself. Complete Site Specific Application form (if applicable) Watch: Cory Arcangel
	Spring Break
Mar 24-28	no class
Mar 31	Group meetings continued Work Day zero gravity and art Stelarc Kitsou Dubois Zero Genie Jeffrey Shaw, Place - Ruhr, Place - A User's ManualConFIGURING the CAVE Maurice Benayoun, World Skin Char Davies, Osmose Feng Mengbo John Paul Bichard Graham Harwood Second Life	Read: Lichty's essay on Collaboration Write: 500 word description of a model of an ideal collaboration model or team. How would tasks be accomplished? Who are the participants? Their roles? Suggested reading by Critical art ensemble
Apr 2	Collect Sketches Discussion on Collaboration reading Tour: Slightly Imbalanced and HereThereEveryWhere by Lanny Silverman, Curator, Chicago Cultural Center Mechanical Movement design Suggested Links Fancy flash interfaces: http://www.shilodesign.com/ http://www.ninjacruise.com/ http://www.mk12.com/	Work on Final Project - prepare for group critique. Bring 3 sketches (updated)... more tba
WEEK 11	Final Project
Apr 7	Group Critique: Formal presentations of the works/ papers in progress	Work on: Final project
Apr 9	Work in Class day Open Source, developing platforms for artists, approaches to code, seizing the means of production ... Hardiman Steve Mann, Eyetap, Mann Homepage, Article Kazuhiko Hachiya Andrea Polli, T2, datareader, Atmospherics, Douglas Easterly Amy Youngs Fernando Orellana Garnet Hertz exhaustive resource link on wearables	Work On: Final Paper/Presentation \| or Final Installation
WEEK 12	Work on Final Project
Apr 14	Work in Class day	Work On: Final Paper/Presentation \| or Final Installation
Apr 16	Individual meetings	Work On: Final Paper/Presentation \| or Final Installation readings due: reading: Social Bookmarking tools and Telepresence Preview: Social Bookmarking culture: ie, http://del.icio.us/, http://digg.com/, www.furl.net, CiteULike, Facebook, Flickr, My Space , del.icio.us, Wiki, Wists, Digg, Zirr.us, Social Bookmarking I, II, Folksonomy, Ruby on Rails, RSS, XML, 43 Things
WEEK 13	Work on Final Project
Apr 21	Work in Class Overview of social bookmarking / folksonomy + Discussion of P2P culture	Work On: Final Paper/Presentation \| or Final Installation
Apr 23	Work in Class	Work On: Final Paper/Presentation \| or Final Installation
WEEK 14	Final Presentations
Apr 28	Work in Class	Work On: Final Installation Due: Final Paper/Presentation
Apr 30	final for presentations + papers	Due: Final Installation
WEEK 15	EXAM WEEK
May 5	final for installations
May 7	final for installations

SCHEDULE

IN CLASS WORK

HOMEWORK

WEEK 1

Course Overview

WEEK 2

Basic Electronics 1.0

WEEK 3

interaction design | responsive architecture

WEEK 4

Basic Electronics 1.2

WEEK 5

Intro to PD/gem

WEEK 6

pd/GEM Switch

WEEK 7

pd/GEM Switch Cont'd

WEEK 8

Return to Analog

WEEK 9

Basic Stamp

WEEK 10

Basic Stamp cont'd

Spring Break

WEEK 11

Final Project

WEEK 12

Work on Final Project

WEEK 13

Work on Final Project

WEEK 14

Final Presentations

WEEK 15

EXAM WEEK