Randall Packer
August 15th Project Documentation (only works in Chrome) This micro-project explores social broadcasting as the organization of distributed media flows, spaces, locations, images, and sound aggregated in the immediacy and simultaneity of their performance. Using the Third Space Network interactive video wall, software written for networked performance that combines the feeds of multiple artist-broadcasters, we… Read more »
Sounds of the City I Let’s walk together through a great modern capital, with the ear more attentive than the eye, and we will vary the pleasures of our sensibilities by distinguishing among the gurglings of water, air and gas inside metallic pipes, the rumblings and rattlings of engines breathing with obvious animal spirits, the… Read more »
Overview Just as we gathered sounds from the city in the Sounds from the City project, we will now capture landscapes through video for the Digital Landscapes project: images of the urban environment, a park, the University, the water, people walking, traffic, etc. If you like, you can choose a location that is related to… Read more »
Due: Tuesday, October 10 This semester we have discussed the work of composers and sound artists, as well as reviewed key concepts of sound and its relation to media art. For the first Hyperessay assignment, students will write a summary by synthesizing ideas culled from your research posts, as well a ideas that you have… Read more »
For the final project, we will shift from the external physical world to the internal virtual world of our desktops. We will build landscapes from the desktop: how we represent our personalized computer space, how we engage with others in the third space (online), our social media interactions, found digital objects, and the kinds of… Read more »