Notes from CC, 2006-10-31

  • Katie Salen
  • Homework
    • Read the first three chapters of Kurtzweil
    • Mander: speed read the four arguments
    • AI Lecture after that
    • Two weeks from today
    • Skype next week from China
  • Algorithms
    • an ordered set of unambiguous executable steps
      • from Computer Science: An Overview
    • not just about computers
    • Al-Quarismi - Arabic mathematician
    • many involve mathematics
    • Sorting and Searching
      • binary trees
    • Algorithm archives
    • Stony Brook repository
    • StarLogo
    • Mathematica
    • Fractals
    • James Gleick
    • Accidents in the algorithm -- randomness
      • how do they affect creativity
    • The Economist
      • good concise science articles
    • Troika Ranch
    • Golan Levin
      • Zack Lieberman
        • drawn
        • computer/code and art - making that connection
    • Do we perceive an innate humanness?
    • Emotion
      • we'll work on this in Psyche and Design
      • how does emotion crossover with some of the stuff we do
      • affective computing
        • recog vaces
    • What does algorithm allow us to do with interface?
    • Use in the world
      • Tutoring
      • HCI
      • Speech, sound, music
    • Realtime vs. Canned
      • Broadcast Design
        • Old: AE, Commotion, Shake, Flame
        • New: VizRT
          • Data driven by script
      • Animation
        • Old: Maya, Max
        • New: Machinima from various game engines
          • And using MEL in Maya
      • Game Design
        • Old; Proc Code
        • New: AI, fuzzy logic, oo code, fractal graphics
    • non-terminating processes
      • art. life
  • Machinima!
    • Meeting later in Nov
    • How to proceed
    • What the support needs are
    • Very few "normal" submissions
    • Running in the Game Lab?
    • Looking at various ways to set this up
    • EA Collab
      • provides the structure of the moving forward
  • notes
    • branching movie using vision tracking?
    • ant colony in processing?
  • Lev Manovich (UCSD)
    • interesting theory about New Media
    • soft cinema
      • what kind fo cinema is appro for the age of google, blogging, guided missiles?
    • The Language of New Media
      • Are algorithms what defines new media?
      • Photography and new media
      • Remainder of book about cinema
      • New media elements
        • Numerical Representation
          • it's all 1s and 0s
        • Mod
          • can you re-use your stuff?
          • little things making big things
        • Automaton
          • Everything we have is automated
        • Variability
          • e.g. with DBs
          • what happens when things don't have to remain static
        • Transcoding
          • cultural transcoding
          • we make the assumption when we translate our work into code that computers can use that everything is from our perspective
          • what happens when we look at this from the perspective of a computer?
          • Things happening on the computer may not be happening in very human ways
          • As AI evolved, the goal is not to dupe Human intelligence

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