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Workshop 2

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Old New Media Expo• Steps

– Explain the concept first, from an audience perspective, or how you would explain it to a general visitor audience. Show before tell.

– Only then provide any ‘inside info’ on how the project is realized (more for your fellow students)

– Audience should reflect on the work by asking questions & giving (constructive) criticism and comments

• Evaluation criteria– The strength, novelty, depth, interestingness, originality, clarity,

creativity, context of the concept itself (i.e. not taking into account technicalities of how it was built)

– The execution of the project as displayed by the end result– The (technical) approach of how the project was realized –

complexity not necessarily an advantage (maximum of effect with minimum of means).

– The documentation on the course website

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SPACE

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Augmented Reality

Augmented Virtuality

Virtual Reality

Artificial Reality

Meatspace

Diminished Reality

NMNT 2016 Milgram's Reality-Virtuality Continuum

Steve Mann. Mediated Reality with implementations for everyday life. presenceconnect.com, the on line companion to the MIT Press journal PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Date Posted: 2002 August 6

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Sensorama (Morton Heilig, 1956)

• Dissolving the fourth wall of film

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So what is the ultimate display? Where there is no

distinction between the real and the virtual?

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Building blocks for the reality

engine

To rebuild reality?

No.

To gain familiarity

with concepts not realizable in the physical

world.

Ivan Sutherland

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The Ultimate DisplayIvan Sutherland, 1965

‘The ultimate display would, of course, be a room within which the computer can control the existence of matter. A chair displayed in such a room would be good enough to sit in. Handcuffs displayed in such a room would be confining, and a bullet displayed in such a room would be fatal. With appropriate programming such a display could literally be the Wonderland into which Alice walked.’

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Feedforward 50 (!) years....

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Feedforward 50 (!) years....

NMNT 2016SEEK @The Jewish Museum NYC

Architecture Machine Group, 1970 • Installation by MIT

Architecture Machine group at on exhibition held at Jewish Museum (1970)

• Computer stacks blocks, builds mental model of the world... But gerbils can topple stacks

• What is this piece about?

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• Sense and act in an environment, deal with unexpected events• Planning versus randomness• Smart environments – totalitarian mechanistic worlds

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Responsive Environments - Myron Krueger (1970-1975)

• Artist as Composer of Responsive Environments – intelligent real time computer mediated spaces

• Response is the medium: focus on experience through interaction

• Immersiveness, audience participation, real time interaction, randomness, computer mediated spaces, ...

Input

State Update

Output

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Responsive Environments - Myron Krueger

• Glowflow, (‘69), METAPLAY (‘70),PSYCHIC SPACE (‘71), MAZE, VIDEOPLACE (‘75)

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Response is the mediumBeauty of aural and visual response is secondary

Composing responsive environments at a meta level

Artificial Realities

Learning and adaptation

Personal Amplifiers

Cooperation and frustration – meaningful interaction

Play

Creative Science applications such as psychology

NMNT 2016ASPEN Movie MapArchitecture Machine Group

1979

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Augmented Reality: ARQuake (2000)

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Augmented Reality: The Hand from Above

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Funky Forest

Funky Forest, Theo Watson: A Modern Responsive Environment

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MeatspaceReality

CyberspaceVirtuality

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Spaces

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openFrameworks in Space

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Upcoming Events

NMNT 2016Imagine Film Festival: Robots, Aliens and Curious

People / The Future of the City

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Rietveld Academie:BOTS, BODIES, BEASTS

at De Brakke Grond, Nes 45 AmsterdamThis year’s conference is about bots, bodies and beasts. It focuses on the notion of the posthuman and the blurring of the traditional distinctions between the human and its others – be these bots or beasts. How can a notion of the posthuman be a tool for understanding the present? How can it help us make sense of our flexible and multiple identities? Can it redefine humanity’s place in the technological and biological continuums we are part of?

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Assignment 2