NMD 304 Lecture 11 Final's in process critique

This is our final interactive live discussion looking at the in process work of Jake Powers and Jesse Melanson with comments by Brian and Stephan from NMD 430and a general discussion of the work for the final project. Please watch and post a short comment.

vision'R Review Special iPodU Session Response

The vision'R festival like the Mapping festival presented a broad variety of digital time-based artists, theorists, designers and much much more. Both of these events were dense in experience and rich with information. There is not enough time for you to watch and comment on everything at this point in the semester. What I'd like you to do is to review as many of the special "Special iPodU vision'R" iTunes video posts as you can and post your response in general or in specific to the vision'R blog. The vision'R videos are found under the NMD 430 iTunes section.

vision'R Edwin and bart on Resolume Special iPodU Session Response

At vision'R there was a range of artists, visual performers, hardware and software designers. It was a great opportunity to meet first hand designers of many different products available for the live time-based visual artist and performer. Of the many people Bart and Edwin, the creators of Resolume, gave a nice talk about their history and process. Please watch and post.

vision'R Claire on her project Alice Special iPodU Session Response

One of the many artists and performers from vision'R Claire talks about her process and the concept behind the work "Alice." Please watch this talk and post your response.

NMD 304 Lecture 10 Wraping it up about the final and more

This lecture covers the final and a bit more please watch and and minor comments. There is an example of the final assignment from a past student.

Mapping Festival Suguro Goto Special iPodu Session Response

Please post your responses after viewing both parts of the performance and the site: http://suguru.goto.free.fr/

Mapping Festival Rigo Pex of MeneoSpecial iPodU Session Response

Please post your responses after viewing the interview and at least one of his many sites: http://meneo.blip.tv/

Mapping Festival Raul Berruec of Meneo Special iPodU Session Response

Please post your responses after viewing the interview and at least one of his many sites: http://www.entter.com

Mapping Festival Batman Zavareze Special iPodu Session Response

Please post your responses after viewing the interview and the site for the festival he hosts: http://multiplicidade.oi.com.br/

Mapping Festival Yroyto Special iPodu Session Response

Please post your responses after viewing the interview and at least one of his many sites: http://www.yroyto.com/

Mapping Festival Liliane Schneiter Special iPodu Session Response

Please post your responses after viewing and looking at any information on the net you can find

Mapping Festival Akira (ARG) Special iPodu Session Response

Please post your responses after viewing the interview and at least one of his many sites: http://www.kikencorp.com/

Mapping Festival Ilan Katin Special iPodu Session Response

Please post your responses after viewing the interview and at least one of hs many sites: http://www.ilankatin.com/ http://mappingfestival.com/

Mapping Festival Roel Verlinden Special iPodU Session Response

Please post your responses after viewing the interview and looking at the site of
collaborators Olga Mink and Scanner http://www.videology.nu http://www.scannerdot.com/

Mapping Festival VJTheory Special iPodU Session Response

Please post your responses after viewing the interview and looking at their site
http://www.vjtheory.com

Bootlab Berlin Special iPodU Session Rseponse

Please post your Special iPodU Session response here.

Katrina McPherson Special iPodU Session Rseponse

Please post your Special iPodU Session response here.

Kevin Henderson Special iPodU Session Response

Please post your Special iPodU Session response here.

Dan Norton Special iPodU Session Response

Please post your Special iPodU Session response here.

Peter Richardson Special iPodU Session Response

Please post your response to this special iPodU Session

NMD 304 Lecture 8 Work A5

Please watch the online critique of each of your works. Take time to look at each others works on your own as well. Then post a comment on each of the works of your class mates. Your responses should point out both successful aspects as well as trying to point to any critical comments you can make. Post responses works in one blog. Please watch the third part of the lecture as well to hear more about assignment 6, "Frame, Clip, Sequence Poetry."

NMD 304 Lecture 7 The Geometry of Time

On Tuesday we went in depth into a discussion on the relation of Euclidean Geometry to Time-Based Art. We explored the relation of Euclid's firt postulates to a set of elements and principles for working in time. Please review the lecture and post your comments here.

NMD 304 Lecture 6 Vox Humana Critique

Please post your comments, reflections and opinions of each others work.

Assignment 4: Sound Poem / Vox Humana the Wordless Voice

The goal in this project is to see if an array of seemingly unintentional, unrelated sounds can be organized using the poetic structure that we have been employing, to evoke or convey meaning. For this project you are to “write” a poem with sound. Working only with ambient or “found” sound you will assemble the sound clips into a meaningful poetic structure. The final objective is to evoke image and to express an idea built conceptually from these ambient sounds alone.

NMD 304 Lecture 5 Mapping: Narratives in Space and Time

Where is narrative? We have had to shift our understanding of the Aristotelean concept of Poetics (one where a work has a definite beginning middle and end with subsequent arches and movements of action towards a main arc with a build up and release in the end) relative to the current epoch where artists have mediums that by their temporal, net-based, interactive or other qualities construct narratives in outer-contextual forms that deny or break the traditional narrative structure, like geographic, spatial, time-based and visual mapping.

If the point once fixed to line and plane in perspective is now free to float across vectors in time and space can we locate the axis or center of any narrative, can we even begin to comprehend where story begins and where it ends and is this necessary? How does the shift in linear story-telling change the experience of the "vanishing" point of a story? I our own lives what is the "point" is there an arc? Post you blog reactions to todays lecture here.. and try to come to the next one even on Thursday...

cheers

Lecture 4 NMD 304 Post Response Here

Critique of A 4 Poetics of Time
Please discuss each other's work (choose one or more to talk about in context of the class). In doing so please do not simply say "I like..." or "I don't like..." try to explain what you are thinking in full detail about someone's work. In other words why do like or dislike something? Also remember regardless of if you do or do not like it you should still talk about it in relation to the given assignment, is the work you are talking about an excellent example; was it terrible; or perhaps it did not really do what was asked but was highly successful in an other way. Also please discuss the assignment in general what did you learn from it; was hard easy,why; Did it relate to the last assignment if so how, etc...

Lecture 3 NMD 304 Post Response Here

Yesterday we pushed the technology we are using to conduct this experimental type of course to its limits. It was not without it flaws and drawbacks but aside from those it presented a wonderful chance to exchange ideas between individuals from across the globe.

In real-time, students and faculty from Nanyang Technical University's Art Design and Media Program (NTU ADM) shared in a discussion on ideas related to this class and your studies at the University of Maine.

The discussion was wide and free ranging framed at first by a simple question around narrative. A question that students and faculty at both NTU ADM and UMaine address to one degree or another in their work. The talk was not easy due to the technology but it was worth the effort. This particular iPod Cast will have some sound problems, as again, we pushed the technology to its limits. But what is preserved here is worth hearing. Please post your response.

Lecture 2 NMD 304 Post Response Here

NMD 304 Lecture 2: Poetry in Time

Time, and how we perceive it is one of the most crucial aspects of the kinds of work we are investigating in this class. It is important that we practice working directly with time in order to understand it, not simply as an effect to use without consideration, but as a wholly expressive element to communicate content and concept. The advancement of the digital tool for creating time-based imagery as opposed film allows the creative individual a more immediate means of working and greater range of possibilities. There are many types of fluctuations in time that are available for use these include; forward and reverse, fast and slow frame rate, time-lapse, freeze frame and stutter step.

WELCOME TO THE UMAINE IPODU NMD304 BLOG

Hello,

I had Matt Leavitt set this up so there is a kind of virtual meeting space for the class you all can interact with each other and post comments and we can use this for non-linear discussions.

see you here-