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OPEN
UC DARnet Open Source Sound, Image, and Electronics
Friday/Saturday, February 9,10, 2007 EDA, Broad Art Center, UC Los Angeles
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Xavier Amatriain. UC Santa Barbara, MATi, CREATE
http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~xavier/
Xavier Amatriain is Research Director of CREATE. A native of Barcelona,
Spain he studied Telecommunications Engineering at the UPC university
in Barcelona. Already in his Master Thesis he started working with Xavier
Serra and developed MetriX, a Music Instrument and Score Description Language.
After working as consultant in the industry he joined academia again to
do his PhD at the Music Technology Group in the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
His final Thesis was entitled "An Object-Oriented Metamodel for Digital
Signal Processing, with a Focus on Audio and Music" and can be accessed
online. He has published more than 20 articles in international journals
and conferences including a chapter in Udo Zoelzer's "Digital Audio
Effects" book.
David Cuartielles. Arduino, K3 Malmo
http://www.arduino.cc/, http://www.gohan.cc/
David Cuartielles studies how to bring technology closer to people. During
a research residency at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Italy), together
with Massimo Banzi, he had the idea of creating the Arduino prototyping
platform to focus on education. Many universities have since migrated
to this open platform and have changed the way they teach physical interaction
with devices. David's PhD work focuses in the feasibility of open
hardware; how different strategies can make a difference in the success
of an open knowledge project. In the case of Arduino, David has consciously
chosen to work with media centers and universities across Europe in the
introduction of electronics as a common research/education subject. An
immediate result of this strategy has been an exponential growth in Arduino¡¯s
community of users that brought the project an honorary mention to the
Digital Communities Ars Electronica Prix 2006. He is the director
of the Center for Art and Technology in Zaragoza, Spain, as well as an
Assistant Professor in Physical Prototyping at K3 - the School of Arts
and Communication, Malmö, Sweden.
Beatriz da Costa, UC Irvine
http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/
Open Source Hardware and Public Interventions
Beatriz will present her current usage of open source hardware tools in
interventionist practices. Why might artists want to design their own
hardware tools, in addition to the fact this seems to be a fun and money-saving
activity? Examples used will be recent collaborative projects including
PigeonBlog, AIR, and Zapped! Beatriz might be joined by her former graduate
student and PigeonBlog contributor, Cina Hazegh. Cina is actively involved
in the creation of open source hardware tools, with a specific interest
in telemetry devices.
Beatriz da Costa is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. She is
dedicated to a participatory practice and interactions with non-academic
publics represent a key component of her work. Beatriz is a former collaborator
of Critical Art Ensemble and a co-founder of Preemptive Media, an arts,
activism and technology group. Beatriz is an Assistant Professor of Arts,
Computation, Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.
Cory Doctorow. Boing Boing, USC
http://boingboing.net/, http://www.craphound.com/
Precis: The Totalitarian Urge
Technology changes how we think about social controls. When our technology
is made up of deterministic machines, we want deterministic social controls
-- standardized testing, standard procuedures. But we've entered into
a world of nondeterministic technology -- no one can predict what the
Internet will do. People still wedded to deterministic enforcement are
finding it harder to live in this world, whether they're fighting terrorism,
copying, or child porn.
Cory Doctorow is the co-editor of Boing
Boing, a very popular web log about technology, culture, and politics.
He has written three science-fiction novels, all published by Tor Books
(Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, 2003, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004,
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005), and a short story collection
published by Avalon (A Place So Foreign and Eight More, 2003). He has
also written for various publications including Wired, Popular Science
and Salon. He has recently published a new short story collection entitled
"Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present. Doctorow, a visiting
professor to USC's Center on Public Diplomacy and Canadian Fulbright Chair
in Public Diplomacy for 2006-2007, is an activist, a writer, a blogger,
a public speaker, and a technology person. From 2002-2006 Doctorow
was the Director of European Affairs for the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF), a technology advocacy nonprofit that works
to upload liberty in technology law, policy and standards, where he remains
a Fellow. He has also worked at the United Nations, at standards bodies,
at governments, and with universities and non-profits to agitate for a
balanced approach to copyright that didn¡¯t trammel the public¡¯s fundamental
rights to privacy, free speech, and due process.
Ben Fry. Processing, Carnegie Mellon
http://www.processing.org/
Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation
Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining
fields such as Computer Science, Statistics, Graphic Design, and Data
Visualization as a means for understanding complex data. After completing
his thesis, he spent time developing tools for the visualization of genetic
data as a postdoc with Eric Lander at the Eli & Edyth Broad Institute
of MIT & Harvard. For the 2006-2007 school year, Ben is teaching in
Pittsburgh as the Nierenberg Chair of Design for the the Carnegie Mellon
School of Design. With Casey Reas of UCLA, he currently develops
Processing, an open source programming environment for teaching computational
design and sketching interactive media software that won a Golden Nica
from the Prix
Ars Electronica in 2005. In 2006, Fry received a New Media Fellowship
from the Rockefeller Foundation to support the project. His work
has shown at the Whitney Biennial in 2002 and the Cooper Hewitt Design
Triennial in 2003,2006. Other pieces have appeared in the Museum of Modern
Art in New York, at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria and in the films"Minority Report¡± and"The Hulk.¡± His information graphics have also
illustrated articles for the journal Nature, New York Magazine, and Seed.
Robert Nideffer. UC Irvine
http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/~nideffer/,
http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/gamelab/portal/
Robert F. Nideffer makes art, researches, teaches, and occasionally publishes
in the areas of virtual environments and behavior, interface theory and
design, technology and culture, and contemporary social theory. He holds
an MFA in Computer Arts, and a Ph.D. in Sociology, and is an Associate
Professor in Studio Art and Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine,
where he also serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Visual Studies Program,
and the Art, Computation and Engineering (ACE) Program.
Robert has participated in a number of national and international online
and offline exhibitions, speaking engagements and panels for a variety
of professional conferences, workshops and events. Since 2000 he has been
hard at play initiating an Academic Specialization in Game Culture and
Technology, and serving as founding director of the Game Culture &
Technology Lab.
Greg Niemeyer. UC Berkeley
http://art.berkeley.edu/niemeyer/
Open Studios
Born in Switzerland in 1967, Greg Niemeyer studied Classics and Photography.
He started working with new media when he arrived in the Bay Area in 1992
and he received his MFA from Stanford University in New Media in 1997.
At the same time, he founded the Stanford University Digital Art Center,
which he directed until 2001, when he was appointed at UC Berkeley as
Assistant Professor for New Media. At UC Berkeley, he is involved in the
development of the Center for New Media, focusing on the critical analysis
of the impact of new media on human experiences. His creative work focuses
on the mediation between humans as individuals and humans as a collective
through technological means, and emphasizes playful responses to technology.
His most recognized projects were Gravity (Cooper Union, NYC, 1997), PING
(SFMOMA, 2001), Oxygen Flute (SJMA, 2002), Organum (Pacific Film Archive,
2003), Ping 2.0 (Paris, La Villette Numerique, 2004), Organum Playtest
(2005), and Good Morning Flowers (SFIFF 2006, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo,
Egypt, 2006).
Michael Zbyszynski. UC Berkeley, CNMAT
http://www.mikezed.com/, http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/
Michael Zbyszynski will discuss the development and use of Open Source
Software for both Research and Pedagogical purposes at UC Berkeley's Center
for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). Two open source projects
developed at CNMAT are OpenSoundControl (OSC), a protocol for communication
among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that
is optimized for modern networking technology, and Sound Description Interchange
Format (SDIF), a portable file format for sound analysis and synthesis
tools. Currently, Zbyszynski is creating the"Music Information Center¡±,
an online resource (using the open source tool, Drupal) for composers
and programmers using Max/MSP (a software who's community shares many
features with an open source softwares, such as Pd.)
Michael Zbyszynski is a composer, sound artist, performer, and teacher
in the field of contemporary electroacoustic music. He holds a Ph.D. and
an M.A. in composition from the University of California, Berkeley and
studied at the Academy of Music in Cracow, Poland, on a Fulbright Grant.
Playing flute, saxophones, clarinet, Yamaha WX-7, live electronics, or
things made from coffee cans and PVC, he has appeared with Roscoe Mitchell,
Myra Melford, the Berkeley Symhony Orchestra, the Merce Cunningham Dance
Company, at the Other Minds Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, and the
Montréal Jazz Festival. He has taught at the Universities of California
Berkeley and Irvine, Berklee College of Music, and Northeastern University,
and can be heard on the ARTSHIP recording label. Currently, he is Assistant
Director of Music Composition and Pedagogy at UC Berkeley's Center for
New Music and Audio Technologies.
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