Art & Science 2: The Philosophy and Science of Experience
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s approach to consciousness and embodiement
Reading Material: Page 3-12 http://www.scribd.com/doc/4877219/M-MerleauPonty-Phenomenology-of-Perception
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THINKING 4 – 23/03/11 – Art & Science 2: The Philosophy and Science of Experience
Media in Public – 22/03/11 – Readings & Assignment CatchUp, Research Methods
Housekeeping
- Last week – more (surprise) feedback from Michael! How was that for y’all?
- Anything further that needs to be said about project development – or are you ok? What are your questions?
“Refractive Index”
Project development – £500 pounds
Another one of Jamie’s stupid 80s/90s movie clips
Readings
- Readings
- New stuff:
Media in Public – 22/03/11 – Readings & Assignment CatchUp, Research Methods
Housekeeping
- Last week – more (surprise) feedback from Michael! How was that for y’all?
- Anything further that needs to be said about project development – or are you ok? What are your questions?
“Refractive Index”
Project development – £500 pounds
Another one of Jamie’s stupid 80s/90s movie clips
Readings
- Readings
- New stuff:
Media in Public – 15/03/11 – Feedback, Readings & Energy
Housekeeping
- City Council brief- what do we think?
- Have a bit of feedback from the City?
- Shall we help each other – go through the projects and give comments?
- Feedback from Sarah / Michael
“Refractive Index”
Another one of Jamie’s stupid movie clips
Readings
- Readings
- New stuff:
Media in Public – 15/03/11 – Feedback, Readings & Energy
Housekeeping
- City Council brief- what do we think?
- Have a bit of feedback from the City?
- Shall we help each other – go through the projects and give comments?
- Feedback from Sarah / Michael
“Refractive Index”
Another one of Jamie’s stupid movie clips
Readings
- Readings
- New stuff:
THINKING 3 – 09/03/11 – What is Consciousness? Consciousness Studies and Applied Philosophy
Art & Science 1: What is Consciousness? (Atau/Brigitta)
- Introduction into the philosophical and scientific concept of cognition
- Descartes, Body-Mind problem
- Cognitive Sciences, Scientific Methods
Reading: Susan Blackmore – Consciousness: An Introduction 2003
More info: http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Books/Consciousness/cons.htm
Media in Public – 08/03/11 – City Council Visit
Housekeeping
- City council – Michael Crilly (michael.crilly@newcastle.gov.uk) – Sarah Doggett (sarah.doggett@newcastle.gov.uk)
Today’s presentations
- Ben Thompson – night-time visitors in the city centre – creation of a “Bat-Phone” style system
- Encouraged to control the phone or “big button”
- Skateboarding – target audience and development of the
- taking the audience as central – skateboarding
- taking the interface as central – lighting
- Joanne Montgomery – walking tour allowing people to understand when they’re near a piece of artwork
- geocaching – gps drawing – minute war – degree confluence – shutterspot
- dead drops – heresay – banksy
- app and/or object to be used with map – full experience prototype
- new to Newcastle – target audience?
- keys – what do they get you into…? physical keys…
Media in Public – 29/02/11 – Favourites, Soundwalks, Ubiquity, Devices
Housekeeping
City Council brief- what do we think?
- See here: Creative Stuff in Public Places – pull out the most important words… brainstorm around these?
- Presentation notes from Sarah Doggett here: Creative Stuff
Readings – Did you read this?
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- Public Screens and the Transformation of Public Space
- Michel-Foucault-Panopticism
- Temporary Autonomous Zones – Original Text – Hakim Bey
- Pirate Utopias – temporary areas of ‘insurgency’ that liberate the mind/space/time/imagination
- Could we imagine creating spaces like this with mobile technologies?
- An ‘uprising that does not engage with the state’
- Satori
- “The first century without terra incognita, without a frontier” – psychospatial-frontiers
- “Gaps in the calendar” – psychotemporal-frontiers
- The Net (all info) & The Web (support system for TAZ?) – parasitism and contradiction, ‘riding the beam’ – “Living off the surplus of social overproduction”
- The flesh as a terminal, machines as ambassadors, information is mediation
- “Life’s penetration by the marvelous”
- Arditi and D’Annunzio
- Parties, festivals: “Let us admit that we have attended parties where for one brief night a replublic of gratified desires was attained” – more reality and force than the U.S. government? Details »
Media in Public – 22/02/11 – Favourites, Sound & City Council Visit
Housekeeping
- Rock Art Sessions
- Brief – let’s see a few…
- Reponses to the brief
- (Field trip?)
- Paleolithic Projection? Thomas Zummer, 1995
- Lalya Gaye’s Presentation – thoughts? reactions?
- Stories/insights from your public space excursions of any kind this week:
- What are the information sources intend for me in this space? What other information is there?
- What are the energies required to sustain this space?
- What aspects of this space are public? Private?
- What is being hidden? What is being revealed?
- What aspects of the space limit or constrain?
- What aspects of the space encourage or provoke?
- Why is this space here?
- What are you encouraged to do here?
- A few notes from Jamie recent activities…
- CAA session on Responsive Cities
- Chair: Steve Dietz, Northern Lights.mn
- Barbara Goldstein, City of San Jose
- Cameron McNall, Electroland
- Ben Rubin, Ear Studio and New York University
- Mark Shepard, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
- Transmediale
- CAA session on Responsive Cities
Media in Public – 22/02/11 – Favourites, Sound & City Council Visit
Housekeeping
- Rock Art Sessions
- Brief – let’s see a few…
- Reponses to the brief
- (Field trip?)
- Paleolithic Projection? Thomas Zummer, 1995
- Lalya Gaye’s Presentation – thoughts? reactions?
- Stories/insights from your public space excursions of any kind this week:
- What are the information sources intend for me in this space? What other information is there?
- What are the energies required to sustain this space?
- What aspects of this space are public? Private?
- What is being hidden? What is being revealed?
- What aspects of the space limit or constrain?
- What aspects of the space encourage or provoke?
- Why is this space here?
- What are you encouraged to do here?
- A few notes from Jamie recent activities…
- CAA session on Responsive Cities
- Chair: Steve Dietz, Northern Lights.mn
- Barbara Goldstein, City of San Jose
- Cameron McNall, Electroland
- Ben Rubin, Ear Studio and New York University
- Mark Shepard, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
- Transmediale
- CAA session on Responsive Cities
Media in Public – 15/02/11 – ROCK ART Wrap Up & Lalya Gaye!
Housekeeping
- FIRST HOUR (11AM) – about Rock Art brainstorm ideas with Deborah Maxwell from ICCHS. Review of your project response from last week – you were to prepare a one-page graphic A3 summarising one idea in response to the Rock Art project we about last week.
- SECOND HOUR (12AM) – Lalya Gaye Artist Talk and projects (Research Assistant, Social Inclusion for the Digital Economy – Creative Group)
To Do
- ASSIGN EX3A: Choose a public space media project (by an artist or designer other than yourself) to look at in class next week. It can be in any domain (public art, gaming, mobile services) but must use technology and take place in urban space and involve the general public.
Media in Public – 15/02/11 – ROCK ART Wrap Up & Lalya Gaye!
Housekeeping
- FIRST HOUR (11AM) – about Rock Art brainstorm ideas with Deborah Maxwell from ICCHS. Review of your project response from last week – you were to prepare a one-page graphic A3 summarising one idea in response to the Rock Art project we about last week.
- SECOND HOUR (12AM) – Lalya Gaye Artist Talk and projects (Research Assistant, Social Inclusion for the Digital Economy – Creative Group)
To Do
- ASSIGN EX3A: Choose a public space media project (by an artist or designer other than yourself) to look at in class next week. It can be in any domain (public art, gaming, mobile services) but must use technology and take place in urban space and involve the general public.
Media in Public – 08/02/11 – Rock Art Mobile Project
Rock Art: An Introduction
Rock art – ancient carvings ‘pecked’ onto natural stone surfaces – forms a hugely significant part of the heritage of the North East of England. The abstract motifs, often referred to as ‘cup and ring marks’, provide a tangible and iconic link to our prehistoric ancestors which extends beyond the basic activities of everyday survival, to hint at a much richer, creative, and potentially spiritual dimension to their lives. Mostly found in situ, on outcrops and large, earth-fast boulders, rock art also reflects the intimate relationship that Neolithic and Bronze Age people had with the natural landscapes they inhabited between 6000 and 3500 years ago. The purpose or meaning of the cups and rings remains shrouded in mystery and continues to challenge archaeologists. The open, dynamic, debate around British rock art together with its physical availability, primarily above ground, makes rock art an accessible and ‘democratic’ part of the historic environment. Details »
Processing – 1 – Intro to Programming (Tom Schofield), 2/2/11
Intro to Processing
Rationale
Today we shift focus to a kind of programming paradigm that uses a much more typical for of computer graphics control. We’ll look at the basics of procedural control, and the way that the drawing ‘engine’ inside processing interprets these controls. Some of this will be familiar (BUT DIFFERENT) to experience you have of Arduino coding from last term. Details »
Media in Public – 01/02/11 – Introductions
Housekeeping
- Tuesday, 11AM-1PM, Space 7, Culture Lab
- Media in Public – Schedule Page (top of this blog)
- Media in Public blog posts – assignments, reading materials, notes from week to week. Comments welcomed!
- Project collaborators – City Council Heritage Office
- IMPORTANT – Next week’s session will meet at the Great North Museum main entrance!!!! Details »
THINKING 5 – 01/12/10 – Applied Philosophy: Philosophy of Technology 2
Applied Philosophy: Philosophy of Technology 2
- Don Ihde’s Experimental Phenomenology
- Paul Dourish’ Embodied Interaction
- Concept of Embodiment /Disembodiment and Immersion
Philosophy of Technology 2: Embodiment, Disembodiment and Immersion Details »
THINKING 4 – 24/11/10 – Applied Philosophy: Philosophy of Technology 1
Applied Philosophy: Philosophy of Technology 1
- Introduction to Phenomenology
- Martin Heidegger and the Tool
- Concept of Embodiment and Immersion
Applied Philosophy: Philosophy of Technology 1
Reading Material: Martin Heidegger: Being and Time
DOING 4 – 24/11/10 (with Tom Schofield) – Arduino into Software, A First Look
Housekeeping
- Review projects from Lalya’s pound store challenge
Rationale: This week will look at basic Processing scripts… for getting a single piece, then more than one piece of info into and out of Processing. We will also have a bit of background about communication protocols and how different ones work. Details »
