CRCA researcher Tim Schwartz initiated a massive effort to help develop a set of tools & a website to assist with registering & tracking missing people affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
Here is how Tim describes the activities of the last week:
I awoke wed to see disaster in Haiti. Got an email from a friend with links to donate, I thought immediately that there could be a better way to apply my skill set. (I'm an artist that uses technology heavily -> artinfo.com/news/story/33154/googling-ourselves/ and I am the CTO of www.famegame.com) I realized immediately that in our web2.0 environment with tons of social networking sites that missing people information was going to go everywhere on the internet, and it would be very hard to actually find people and get back to their loved ones if everything was scattered. So my initial goal was to create a unified database that would be the one repository for missing people data, and other online applications could connect to it. I quickly emailed all of the developers I had ever worked with:
"An idea:
A site that is up within 3 hours that has a quick and easy method to add and update a survivor in Haiti or a list of survivors.
A hub for information on individuals in Haiti.
A unified DB that can scrape and process other feeds on the internet.
Want to make it?
No governmental organization is going to get off their asses enough to help us out. People right now are trying to use CNN iReporter and Facebook to try and find information on individuals in Haiti. It's going to get messy fast. If we could make a simple website where someone could add a name and information on the person either asking for a status or from in Haiti adding the status of the person. OR perhaps twitter can be our friend and we just need to scrape their feeds and put it into some managed interface. How can we as developers help?"
Immediately 10 developers began workign with me to create http://www.haitianquake.com By the early afternoon of the first day we had a website up with a database that was taking in information on
missing ppl and survivors. By that night we had automated twitter updates on people and rss exports of our data. Most importantly we had written a scraper to bring all of the data from the ICRC's site into our database. (ICRC is affiliated with the red cross, but is a terrible system for family reunificiation in that, their site will not talk to anyone else's web application, which in our web2.0 state of things is rediculous, the site also doesn't have any way to post updates on anyone missing or survived, leaving the application mute.)
So that first night we had a database of 6000+ entries that had been entered by users and collected from other sites, and our site allowed people to post images and leave updates on people in the database. By the next afternoon I had coordinated efforts with the development community and google had just started to move on ideas about family reunification. We coordinated our efforts with them and by friday morning google had the begining of their application out with an embed-able widget to take in data. Early on it was clear to me that as long as google was 100% behind their product and understood the scale of what they were taking on it would be incredibly important to fold our project into theirs so that all other websites working on family reunification would do the same. This would be the only way to create ONE repository. So friday night we moved the first set of 6000 entries over to google, and last night I moved over 16,000 more entires. Google is now up to 30,000 records and growing. They have an API for other applications to talk to their database. This tool will be THE application for missing people for this disaster and all disasters in the future as well I believe this can take over as the core application for missing people in the united states and abroad.
What we need most of all right now is for all other projects out there to either fold into google or to use google's api to communicate with their data, so that we dont have silos of data all over the internet, we must be connected.
The code that everyone built in the first two days became the basis for the SMS volunteer system setup by Josh Nesbit and Brian Herbert. In the first 24 hours or so they recieved 700 SMS messages from Haiti that have been redirected to the right people on the ground. Here are a few of the successful ones from the SMS system, and stats about what they've accomplished:
A recent message sent out through the 4636 short code:
FYI sending another useful message to people 650 citizens:
[1/18/10 1:47:30 PM] Nicolas di Tada: Help available at Société Nationale de la Croix-Rouge haïtienne 1 rue du Muguet Route de Desprez 7, 6112 Port-au-Prince at Croix-Rouge you can phone relatives and register yourself or others as missing.
Breakdown of the kinds of calls:
28.06% Missing Persons
12.23% Water shortage
10.07% Food distribution
10.07% Asking to forward a message
9.35% Earthquake and aftershocks
5.04% Persons News
4.32% People trapped
3.60% Emergency
2.88% Health services
2.16% Medical Emergency
2.16% Died bodies management
2.16% Response
1.44% Looting
1.44% Shelter
5.04% Other
Some of the developers names: CRCA Researcher Tim Schwartz, Austin Smith, Garland Davis, Josh Marcus, Jeremey Johnstone, Noah Schoenholtz, Ryan Leary, Matthew Hockenberry, Guy Hoffman, Udi Pladott, Wendell III and CRCA Technical Director Todd Margolis.
posted on: January 19, 2010
The Transborder Immigrant Tool was the subject of a whirlwind of media attention in the past week. The project has been developed by the Electronic Disturbance Theater, consisting of artists Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Amy Sara Carroll and Micha Cardenas. The media coverage included television, radio and print stories including the Associated Press, BBC World, NBC, Fox, and the UCSD Guardian. While the actual stories are too many to list here, the following is a list of some of the major articles. Many media outlets improperly reported it as an Iphone app, others attempted to discredit the project saying it is illegal, and some interviewed Enrique Morones of the Border Angels, one of the humanitarian providers whose water caches the tools directs people to. Overall, the members of the group are extremely happy that the Transborder Immigrant Tool has been so effective in opening up dialog on the dire need for humanitarian aid at the border, where thousands of people have needlessly died. We look forward to completing and deploying the tool in the coming year.
Vice magazine wrote a long article this month about Ricardo Dominguez
and the b.a.n.g. lab. The article covers numerous Border Disturbance
Art projects, including the Freephone project, but focuses on the
Transborder Immigrant Tool.
FOLLOW THE GPS, ÉSE: THE TRANSBORDER IMMIGRANT TOOL HELPS MEXICANS
CROSS OVER SAFELY
CRCA researcher Micha Cardenas/Azdel Slade published a new article on
Reality Shifting on Augmentology.com last week. It includes a short
machinima she produced as well as other videos and links. Check it out
and leave a comment with your thoughts!
Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cárdenas recently performed in Second Life and
at the Nevada Museum of Art as part of the Prospectives.09 festival,
which also included UCSD MFA candidates Stephanie Lie and Rob Duarte.
The festival, and our performance were reviewed by the Reno News and
Review. The article, called Digital graffiti, starts out like this…
"Projected onto the wall of a gallery, like a movie screen, is a
computer image from the online virtual community Second Life: Two
naked feminine avatars passionately embracing. Elle Mehrmand and Micha
Cardenas, who bear better-than-passing resemblances to their virtual
onscreen counterparts, approach the stage in front of the projection
and begin disrobing.
The onstage artists strip to their undergarments and attach heart rate
monitors. A fluctuating rhythmic pulse—the artists’ heart rates—can be
heard in the gallery. Flashing lights in the chests of the onscreen
avatars signify that the same pulse beats there at the exact same
rate. Mehrmand and Cardenas embrace, locking lips and enfolding limbs.
The connection between the images onstage and onscreen are
unmistakable, as their hearts beat as one."(by Brad Bynum, newsreview.com, 11/12/2009)
The article is very interesting, includes more of an interview with
Micha and discusses the rest of the festival as well.
Read the rest after the jump. JUMP!
http://www.newsreview.com/reno/content?oid=1318733
posted on: November 20, 2009
Film Premiere in Cyberspace Links Brazil, U.S. and Japan
FILE 10 in Brazil
San Diego and Sao Paulo, Aug. 3, 2009 -- The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at the University of California, San Diego and partners including the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) staged the first feature film premiere to be streamed on three continents simultaneously in 4K – the super-high-bandwidth format that offers four times the resolution of high-definition TV.
Audience at FILE 10 in Sao Paulo attends a Q&A session after the film premiere. Clockwise from top left: film director Beto Souza (at podium); wide shot of the conference hall; Calit2 division director Ramesh Rao onscreen in uncompressed HD stream from San Diego; and HD stream from Keio University in Japan.
[Photo courtesy Michael Stanton, Director of Innovation, Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa, Brazil]
The film by Brazilian director Beto Souza, "Enquanto a noite não chega" (While the Night Doesn't Come), made its debut to a packed theater at the Electronic Language International Festival (FILE 10) world festival in Brazil on July 30. The film (actually, 4K is a video format) was exhibited in Sao Paulo and streamed in real time over high-speed optical networks to the Calit2 Auditorium in Atkinson Hall at UC San Diego, and to Keio University's Design Media lab in Yokohama, Japan.
The somber yet beautiful film – shot with a Red 4K camera – was produced at a resolution of 8 million pixels per frame, and it was streamed to San Diego and Japan with only a few glitches that were quickly fixed.
Still frame from the Brazilian film, "Enquanto a noite não chega" (While the Night Doesn't Come), by director Beto Souza
"Hollywood has dreamed of this for decades," reported CRCA Director Sheldon Brown, who is also Calit2's Artist in Residence and led a large contingent from UC San Diego to FILE 10. "Now an extensive collaboration of artists, technologists and scientists from around the globe – spearheaded by CRCA – has made history."
According to Brown, the "global networks being joined together were upgraded to 10 Gigabits per second to support the high bandwidth required for this historic transmission." Brown attributed much of the credit for the success of the event to its Technical Director, CRCA's Todd Margolis, who coordinated all aspects of the streaming, network setup and teleconference setup.
On July 31, the same high-speed network was used to stage a trilateral videoconference using HD feeds among high-ranking government and cultural representatives in Sao Paulo, Yokohama and San Diego , including Calit2 Division Director Ramesh Rao. The HD streams from Keio and Calit2 (pictured bottom left and right windows, respectively on the 4K screen) were in uncompressed HD at approximately 1.5 Gigabits per second.
Map displaying network links required to get the film from FILE to Keio University in Japan and Calit2 in San Diego. [Network map courtesy Michael Stanton, Director of Innovation, Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa, Brazil ]
FILE 10 has also become an important venue for new-media artists affiliated with CRCA and Calit2. At this year’s event, Sheldon Brown is showing his Scalable City , while Todd Margolis, Ruth West and colleagues are showing ‘ATLAS in Silico,” which had its premiere two years ago at SIGGRAPH in San Diego. 'Between Bodies' by CRCA’s Nina Waisman is on display in Sao Paulo’s SESI Gallery, and Tristan Shone performed 'Dub Machines' in the SESI Theater on July 30 following the 4K film premiere.
In addition to Brown and Margolis, Miller Puckette, Brett Staulbaum, Calit2 Software Studies Initiative Director Lev Manovich and Calit2's Sonic Arts R&D Director, Peter Otto, were all scheduled to participate in various panels, presentations and workshops throughout the first week of the month-long festival, which runs from July 28 to August 30.
UCSD's Lev Manovich leads a workshop on cultural analytics at FILE 10 in Sao Paulo. [Courtesy: Cicero Silva/FILELabo ]
Also in Sao Paulo working behind the scenes: Calit2's Hector Bracho, who worked with Margolis in Sao Paulo and the Calit2 audio-visual team back in San Diego to ensure that the streams from Brazil to Calit2 and Keio happened with as few glitches as possible. "We've averaged two-and-a-half hours of sleep each night for the past ten days," reports Bracho, "and my whole team at Calit2 has been working continuously to assist us remotely."
Calit2 loaned its two Zaxel Systems 4K streaming servers and other A/V equipment for the effort, and Bracho & Margolis oversaw 4K local playback in Brazil , including content encoding and tech setup (notably installation of the Zaxel servers, and 4K projector calibration at the Brazilian venue).
On the San Diego end, the film was displayed in the Calit2 Auditorium, while Calit2's Rao participated in the July 31 videoconference from Calit2's HD Studio – when he conversed with representatives from Keio University in Japan and the hosts in Brazil . Calit2 shared the cost of Bracho's travel with its CineGrid partner, Pacific Interface, and Brazil ’s Mackenzie Presbyterian University (a major sponsor of FILE). Calit2's Events committee also supported the effort with cost-sharing to permit use of the 4K playback and Calit2 Auditorium for the film premiere.
CRCA Director and Calit2 Artist in Residence Sheldon Brown at FILE 10. [Courtesy: Cicero Silva/FILELabo ]
The network connectivity to support the first 4K film premiere between South America, North America and Asia was a patchwork of super-high-bandwidth (typically 10Gbps) links. The bulk of the U.S. connectivity was supplied by Cisco Systems’ C-Wave, an extensive Layer-2.5 switched network deployed on the National LambdaRail (NLR), and several regional optical networks such as the Pacific Wave between the West Coast and Chicago , primarily for the academic community to conduct application experiments.
CRCA- and Calit2-affiliated visual arts professor Lev Manovich led a workshop on 'cultural analytics', and authored the introductory text in the FILE catalog this year. In it, he argues that a well-known 20th century computer-graphics technique for representing smooth surfaces -- Non Uniform Rational Basis Spline, or NURBS – is evolving into a new tool for cultural theorists in the 21st century, along with other computer graphics and visualization tools.
FILE editorial board member Jane de Almeida (at podium) in Brazil speaks via HD video feed with Calit2's Mike Toillion in San Diego, before Toillion introduced his 4K short, BeatBox 360 . [Courtesy: Cicero Silva/FILELabo ]
According to the FILE program, the Beto Souza film deals with “a theme that torments all human beings since the beginning of their existence – the end of life,” according to the late Josué Guimarães, author of the novella on which the eponymously-named film is based. “If the end is too close and everything around is finishing, the only thing left to do is the crossing with some elements that still exist. And all that with much dignity.”
“The movie, while sad, was quite touching,” noted Calit2’s division director at UCSD, Ramesh Rao, after the screening. “I found myself watching the movie instead of the streaming technology.”
posted on: August 04, 2009
Becoming Dragon is subject of article in the San Diego Reader.
posted on: March 30, 2009
Check out these links for more information on the Scalable City installation at FILE in Rio.
UC San Diego and IBM Launch Center for Next-Generation Digital Media to Power Tomorrow's Virtual Worlds IBM has awarded a System z10 mainframe computer and related equipment to a team led by Calit2's Artist-in-Residence Sheldon Brown. The computer will be used to innovate new virtual worlds (including one based on Brown's Scalable City), multi-player online games and high-fidelity digital cinema.
posted on: March 17, 2009
Jaime Oliver's Silent Drum won first place in the first Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech's Center for Music Technology announced. The competition - supported by the philanthropic family of Tech alum Richard Guthman - showcased new uses of technology to enhance participation in music performance and music creation.
Nearly 30 inventors from seven countries performed on Georgia Tech's campus in the competition for more than $15,000 in prizes.
Read more at: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29595999/ or at
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS127889+09-Mar-2009+PRN20090309
posted on: March 10, 2009
Rio de Janeiro is the latest stop for the Scalable City.
Stop by the OI Futuro museum between March 10 and April 19, 2009.
posted on: March 09, 2009
Rand Steiger and Miller Puckette were discussed in Steve Smith's New York Times Music Review column for Feb. 22, 2009.
"In Rand Steiger’s achingly lovely “Cryosphere” Mr. Steiger and Miller Puckette used computers to manipulate sounds meant to evoke the formation and dissolution of glaciers and icebergs. Rolling cymbals stretched into enveloping hums that swirled around the hall. Clattering vibraslaps and brittle synthesizer notes ricocheted; long tones wobbled through microtonal inflections. The effect was like sitting in a huge, resonant Tibetan prayer bowl."
posted on: February 24, 2009
Gender and Performativity — A Curated Film Program by Lasse Lau January 30, 2009; 7:00 - 10:00 pm Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), 10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Egypt.
Also in Supersonic 2009 at the Los Angeles convention Center, http://supersonic2009.com/
and the SPIE Electronic Imaging conference at the san Jose convention center,
http://spie.org/app/program/index.cfm?fuseaction=conferencedetail&export_id=x16280&ID=x16223&redir=x16223.xml&conference_id=863831&event_id=862795&programtrack_id=862796
posted on: January 26, 2009
Scalable Relations is on exhibit at the Beall Center for Art + Technology, UCI from 1/9/09 thru 3/14/09. This exhibit brings together a group of works by faculty of the UC Digital Arts Research Network (UCDARnet). The artists address a range of issues using data as a medium to illustrate the complexities and shifting contexts of today's information society.
Location: Beall Center for Art + Technology, UC, Irvine, 712 Arts Plaza, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Irvine, Ca.
Hours: Tues - Wed, noon to 5pm. Thu - Sat, noon to 8pm.
posted on: January 06, 2009
Becoming Dragon - Micha Cardenas' project, topic of article in the San Diego Union Tribune. Go to: http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2008/dec/21/1a21virtual162313-online-world-immersion-probes-po/?uniontrib
posted on: December 22, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008 UCSD
Scalable City Exhibition Opening.
Time: 6pm-8pm Location: First Floor and Gallery, Atkinson Hall.
Artist: Sheldon Brown, Director, UCSD Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA).
This opening reception for the exhibition Scalable City, by Sheldon Brown, is open to the public. The reception also marks the grand opening of the gallery @ calit2 in Atkinson Hall. Scalable City is a series of artworks with a center piece consisting of a computer game involving users, data and algorithms as applied to urban development.
posted on: October 23, 2008
CRCA researcher Micha Cárdenas will speak at UCIRA's State of
the Arts Conference at UC Riverside on "Collective Art Practice in the mediated public space of Second Life". Cardenas will also be part of a panel on the Open Classroom Challenge.
posted on: September 22, 2008
CRCA researcher's presentations at the FILE2008 in Sao Paulo, Brazil generated a lot of media coverage. For a glimpse into the interest the 4K generated check out:
Video:
http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM865293-7823-FESTIVAL+INTERNACIONAL+DE+LINGUAGEM+ELETRONICA+COMECA+HOJE,00.html
Other:
http://www.link.estadao.com.br/index.cfm?id_conteudo=14344
http://allexincasa.blig.ig.com.br/ (scroll down to Inteligência artificial )
http://www.usp.br/espacoaberto/0cinema.htm
http://onne.com.br/conteudo/5002/milh-es-de-pixels
http://cultureba.com.br/category/gratis/
http://ondequando.com/event/13482/
http://www.dicadeteatro.com.br/index.php?local=27=&id=668
http://www.adnews.com.br/cultura.php?id=74406
posted on: August 27, 2008
AllAboutJazz.com has just published Mark Dresser: Telematics, by Mark Dresser, CRCA researcher and Music professor. The full article and photos are available at: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=30198
posted on: August 22, 2008
The Scalable City Installation and 4K film festival organized by CRCA and Calit2 are receiving considerable attention in Sao Paulo at the FILE festival of new media art. This is the first time
Scalable City has been shown side by side with its 4K film version. This simultaneous viewing creates a more complete experience of its multiple media intricacies. CRCA and Calit2 have collaborated with FILE to create this first ever 4K film screening in Brazil. In addition to the Scalable City, more 4K fare such as Mike Toillion's BeatBox360, Dan Sandin's "A Study of 4D Julia Sets", excerpts from the Era La Notte opera, and others are utilizing this venue daily.
For more information visit: http://msn.onne.com.br/conteudo/5002/milh-es-de-pixels, http://agendacult.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/file-symposium, http://www.sesisp.org.br/home/2006/centrocultural/Prog_expo.asp.
posted on: August 07, 2008
CRCA Director, Sheldon Brown, is giving the keynote talk at the 2008 Olympic Digital Arts Forum in Shanghai.
The 'Digital Arts Exhibition of 2008 Olympic Fine Arts' is one of the series of activities which is approved by Ministry of Culture, sponsored by the International Olympic Committee and supported by the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee. Sheldon Brown will be delivering a lecture on the nature of Representation, Simulation and Development and the implications for urban planning and art.
posted on: July 31, 2008
CRCA's Game Libratory (Library + Labratory) featured on NotCot
posted on: July 30, 2008
'Sharing is Sexy' will be presenting a talk at Arse Elektronika, organized by new media troublemakers Monochrom, in San Francisco on September 28th.
The conference, titled "Do Androids Sleep With Electric Sheep?" will discuss "Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction". Schedule and talk abstracts at link.
posted on: July 29, 2008
Todd Margolis, CRCA Tech Director, was interviewed by NPR and Fox news about the new Atlas in Silico www.atlasinsilico.net/ installation at the Ingenuity Fest http://www.ingenuitycleveland.com/events/atlas-silico?event=199 in Cleveland. To hear the interview, go to: http://www.wcpn.org/index.php/wcpn/an/
"ATLAS in silico" is the result of a vibrant collaboration between artists and scientists spanning new media, computer science, metagenomics, biology, and engineering. Artists and researchers from UCSD who collaborated to produce this piece include Ruth G. West, Todd Margolis, Iman Mostafavi, JP Lewis, Joachim Gossman, Ben Hackbarth, Alex S. Horn, Sam Fernald, Jurgen Schulze, Weizhong Li, Trevor Henthorn, Rajvikram Singh, Javier I. Girardo, and Toshiro Yamada.
posted on: July 24, 2008
'Sharing is Sexy,' a project by CRCA researcher DJ Lotu5, was interviewed in Rolling Stone Italy. Roughly translated, the title is "Free Sex in the Free Web 2.0", and the subheading is "The first open source porn laboratory is born in a queer community." [note: article contains adult content]
posted on: June 24, 2008
The Software Studies Initiative will be hosting visiting Fellow Tristan Thielmann during April and May of 2008. Tristan Thielmann is an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Research Center "Media Upheavals", University of Siegen, Germany. His cross-disciplinary research and practice explores the aesthetics and history of geomedia with a focus on navigation systems, geobrowsers and geosurveillance technologies. He has recently published a book on digital displays and the spatial turn in cultural & social sciences. Currently Dr Thielmann is completing three books, one on "locative media", one on "media geography" and another on "actor-media theory". While he is staying as a visiting fellow of Software Studies lab, he is doing oral history interviews with pioneers in mobile cartography and GPS technology.
posted on: April 22, 2008
Brazilian new media and art & technology researcher Cicero Silva will be spending Spring term (through July 31, 2008) as a visiting researcher at CRCA. His past work deals with conceptual procedures using computers, such as algorithm generated texts and user generated interfaces. Cicero will be developing projects for GPS devices (cell phones included) for exhibition at the FILE (the major Electronic Art Festival in Latin America) in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre and also was submited to the MediaLabMadrid and others art & tech exhibitions in UK, Spain and Argentina.
posted on: April 01, 2008
Communication professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin posted the manuscript of "Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games and Software Studies" in daily installments, averaging 2,000 words, over a ten-week period on Grand Text Auto. The GTxA blog, hosted by CRCA, is co-authored by Wardrip-Fruin and five other artists, game designers and academics. Its blend of commentary and high-minded discussion on videogame culture and new media attracts roughly 35,000 unique visitors each month.
posted on: March 21, 2008
INSIDE THE WAVE, running from March 8 through June 22, 2008 at the San Diego Museum of Art, features six artists and artist collectives from the San Diego/Tijuana region working within spheres of alternative cultures to produce works that combine material culture and everyday life. Participating artists include Adriene Jenik; Tijuana-based bulbo collective; Brian Dick and Allison Wiese; Zlatan Vukosavljevic; and the *particle group*, a collective of media and performance artists, including UCSD visual arts professor Ricardo Dominguez.
posted on: February 29, 2008
"Music special: Five great auditory illusions" article in the New Scientist features work by CRCA researcher Diana Deutsch: "Scale illusion" and "Phantom words."
posted on: February 29, 2008
MIT Press has authorized what is probably one of the first blog-based peer reviews for a forthcoming book by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, digital media writer, artist, CRCA researcher, and professor of Coummincations at the University of California, San Diego. Every weekday over the next ten weeks, Wardrip-Fruin will post a section of his new manuscript, Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies, on the popular Grand Text Auto blog (where he is a regular author), with the hope of receiving quality feedback from the site's readers.
posted on: January 22, 2008
Carol Krumhansl of Cornell University, a distinguished psychologist in the area of cognitive processes in music perception and memory, is at UCSD as a visiting scholar with both CRCA and the Neurosciences Institute from January 1 through March 15, 2008.
posted on: January 01, 2008
Virtual Unreality, a new interactive exhibition in the Exploratorium's Seeing Gallery, features Scalable Cities by Sheldon Brown and is open to the public from September 14, 2007-January 7, 2008.
posted on: December 18, 2007
UCSD Visual Arts department is recruiting for a Assistant Professor, tenure-track to Associate Professor, tenured, beginning July 1, 2008. Seeking an artist with a proven exhibition record whose work exhibits an in-depth understanding of computing and its relationship to contemporary art and its discourses.
posted on: December 11, 2007
CRCA Researcher Amy Alexander announces the release of SVEN CV computer vision software. SVEN CV is a software application for real time tracking of pedestrians, using OpenCV. Its robust build has features for tracking several individuals with all kinds of foreground and background occlusions. It
also provides real-time subjective features such as face detection and expression; hair and clothing color; segmentation of the body to give positions for head, shoulders, and torso; direction of movement and more. It transfers the data including the coordinates of the person's outline (matte) to a specified IP address or the local machine via a UDP port. It supports input from both live camera and AVI files.
posted on: December 03, 2007
CRCA researcher and Visual Arts graduate student Micha Cardenas was awarded a 2007-2008 UCIRA Open Classroom Challenge Grant to teach a course on "Collective Art Practice - Performative and Networked Approaches to Challenging Power."
posted on: November 21, 2007
"Sanctuary" -- by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds, founding director of CRCA, was recently presented at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
"Sanctuary" is the latest in a series of works Reynolds been mounting for decades, and incorporates everything from theater to computers to experimental psychology.
posted on: November 20, 2007
Scalable City is a featured demonstration at the IBM booth at Supercomputing '07.
posted on: November 13, 2007
Mark Dresser (Music), Adriene Jenik (Visual Arts), Victoria Petrovich (Theatre and Dance), and Shahrokh Yadegari (Theatre and Dance) are working on a Telematic Performance research project in Fall 2007 and Winter 2008 with colleagues at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustic (CCRMA) at Stanford, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), UCI/Calit2, UC Berkeley, and Princeton University's Sound Lab. This work will produce two performances: a private performance to be held this Friday, November 16 and a public performance in Winter quarter of 2008.
posted on: November 12, 2007
Flo Menezes, visit composer from Brazil, presents a lecture on "Maximal Music" in the CRCA SpatLab, Wednesday, October 31st at 5pm. The public is welcome.
posted on: October 30, 2007
New Book by Miller Puckette
The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music has been published by Imperial College Press. Miller Puckette, Assoc. Director of CRCA, has produced the first book to develop both the theory and the practice of synthesizing musical sounds using computers. Each chapter starts with a theoretical description of a technique or problem and ends with a series of working examples which cover a wide range of applications. This is both a valuable textbook as well as valuable reading for graduate students, music composers, researchers, performers and music software enthusiasts.
posted on: July 09, 2007
Calit2 appointed Pulitzer-prize winning Roger Reynolds to the new position of "Composer in Residence" for an initial two-year term.
posted on: June 29, 2007
Researcher Arshia Cont, has been performing for the past two months with world renowned Arditti Quartet. He performed Marco Stroppa's "Spiralli" for string quartet and live electronics and Jonathan Harvey's 4th String Quartet with live electronics at Festival Musica Electronica Nova in Poland, May 25. On July 8, he will perfom the electronics of Pierre Boulez' piece for Violin and Live electronics (ANTHEME 2) with Irvin Arditti in Metz during the Acanthes festival.
posted on: June 21, 2007
"PROFILING" show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 8-September 9, 2007. Amy Alexander's SVEN (Surveillance Video Entertainment Network) will be part of this exhibit.
Siberian Portal about WEB-Security
posted on: June 08, 2007
Scalable City went on display today at the headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences in the nation's capital, as part of a new exhibition titled "Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: Shared Visions Between Art and Technology."
Siberian Portal about WEB-Security
posted on: June 04, 2007
Dr. Lev Manovich (Professor, Visual Arts) and Dr. Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Assistant Professor, Communication) are currently recruiting for a Postdoctoral Researcher with a PhD in the humanities, social sciences, information science, or related interdisciplinary area, to join a new Software Studies initiative at UCSD.
posted on: May 17, 2007
Shanghai MOCA presents Scalable City 1.6.5 March 5, 2007 through April 20, 2007.
posted on: March 09, 2007
Experimental Game Lab shows The Scalable City at the Game Developers Conference, March 5-9 2007, in San Francisco.
posted on: March 09, 2007
Interesting course offerings for spring 07- CAT 124 Social Architectures Interventionist Art, Participatory Design and Social Movement and CSE 125: Software System Design and Implementation.
posted on: February 21, 2007
An Inaugural Symposium for the Southern California Computing in Music (SCCiM) network will be held at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, on Saturday, February 17, 2007. The establishment of the SCCiM network, organized in part by CRCA researchers Shlomo Dubnov and Arisha Cont, celebrates the growing nucleus of researchers and research groups focussing on computing applications in music and will facilitate collaborations between music computing researchers, educators, and industry experts in Southern California. The inaugural symposium will feature both faculty and student presentations on music and computing research and will conclude with a roundtable discussion on the role of SCCiM and future activities.
posted on: February 09, 2007
CRCA Researcher and Visual Arts Faculty member, Adriene Jenik was featured alongside her current research project, SPECFLIC, in the Union Tribune on Dec. 31, 2006 in an article entitled, “In ‘Social Cinema,’ You Have a Role.” The author, James Herbert, discusses the theories behind the project as well as the possibility that it may be featured overseas. For more information on this article please visit http://www.uniontribune.com.
posted on: January 11, 2007
Diana Deutsch and Trevor Henthorn’s critique of the article “Early Childhood Music Education and Predisposition to Absolute Pitch: Teasing Apart Genes and Environment” by Peter K. Gregersen, et al [2000] received validation through its publication in the American Journal of Medical Genetics. By reanalyzing the Gregersen data, upon which the argument of the aforementioned article is based, they showed that Absolute Pitch is related to Tone Language, not genetics. Their work on the relationship between genetics and Absolute Pitch is now considered to be among the leading research on the subject and serves as a valuable reference for geneticists.
posted on: December 19, 2006
In his lecture at MLAC, Eduardo Navas will present some of his art, theory and criticism focused on culture and media at large. He will also dicuss his recent research on Remix as a cultural activity affecting curatorial practice and present examples of New Media projects that challenge the way curators approach contemporary art.
posted on: December 19, 2006
Alex Dragulescu's Spam Architecture and Spam Plants digital print series were selected to be exhibited at the Seoul Museum of Art during the 2006 International Media Art Biennale in Seoul, South Korea. A DVD recording of a live VJ performance is also part of the program.
posted on: November 01, 2006
Letterman Digital Arts Center Hosts Audio Engineering Society (AES) for a CineGrid@AES Special Event:
4K digital motion pictures and 24-channel digital audio streamed in real-time via CineGrid to San Francisco from Tokyo, Los Angeles and San Diego
posted on: October 25, 2006
In a rare effort by technologists to give artists an important role in the evolution of multidisciplinary research in science and engineering, CALIT2 appointed Sheldon Brown to be the first Artist in Residence for an initial two-year term.
posted on: May 01, 2006
Visual Art graduate student and CRCA researcher Tim Jaeger is launching his book *VJ : Live Cinema Unraveled* at the TELIC gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
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