Canadian Centre of Arts and Technology is a resarch centre at Waterloo with a number of interesting projects in the early phase. From the sounds of this press release, UW’s new centre studies human response to technology, Waterloo is investing in this area with funds and CRC chairs.
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Pew Internet & American Life Project
While it has a long name, the Pew Internet & American Life Project seems to be conducting interesting and relevant surveys of Internet usage. In particular they have a report on Artists, Musicians and the Internet and a new one on the The state of blogging. The reports are in PDF format.
Public Structure
Jared Tarbell and colleagues at Levitated do some very cool Flash “toys”. One neat project that shows how Flash can be used to create multiuser spaces is Public Structure | a collaborative computational environment. Some of their work has been exhibited, including the I’Ching Poetry Generator, a Levitated exhibition. I find his/their work achingly beautiful.
Arizona: Arts, Media and Engineering (Again)
Herberger College of Fine Arts is the college at Arizona State University for arts, theatre, music and dance that is collaborating with the school of engineering on the Arts, Media and Engineering research and education program that I blogged before. (See Arizona State: Arts, Media and Engineering.)
It looks like they have MFAs in Art, Dance and Theatre (and PhD in Music) each of which can have a concentration in “Interdisciplinary Digital Media” or “Interdisciplinary Digital Media and Performance”.
Chatonsky: Aesthetics of Interactivity
In issue three of intermÈdialitÈs, new journal about “history and theory of the arts, letters, and techniques”, there is an original article, Le centre d’indÈtermination : une esthÈtique de l’intÈractivitÈ by GrÈgory Chatonsky.
In it Chatonsky presents an theory of interactivity riffing on Bergson (the journal issue is titled “devenir-bergson”) and how the body is the possibility of causality and the new. He connects this to interactive art where what is new is that the “spect-acteur” have to move to cause the aesthetic experience.
In the wake
In the wake is in memory of the buried temple I came across on the Tamil coast. It is for us to give.
Shining Snow
Shining Dunes of snow is another small photo set from the holidays.
Shadowed Snow
Shadowed Snow is a small collection of photos taken this holiday in the woods of Cootes.
Learning Spaces
In the Fall we went to Ithaca and toured Cornell. I took my digital camera as I was beginning to think about learning and space. Today I finally got my pictures uploaded. They aren’t great, and the spaces are hard to parse, but it s a start, see Learning Spaces.
Theremin: Theremax
Matt Patey pointed me to a cheaper source of Theremin kits. See PAiA: Theremax theremin, the kit costs $79 USD + shipping. Now I need to come up with a reason why I need this for multimedia research.