Interactive Media with Max - Student Work 2017

According to Wikipedia: SIGGRAPH is the name of the annual conference of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). It stands for S pecial I nterest G roup on GRAPH ics and Interactive Techniques. It draws thousands of people from companies and schools in the areas of engineering, video gaming, graphics, and motion pictures. In 2008 SIGGRAPH Asia held a conference in Singapore. Highlights of the conference include the Animation Theater and Electronic Theater presentations where recently created CGI movies are played. According to Access Grid.org "The Access Grid is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments. These resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid." I find it interesting that technology has moved so quickly. It was not long ago that video conferencing was cutting edge. Now it's gotten to the po...

William S. Burroughs and Cut-up By Dan Century Chain Border For the uninitiated, the Cut-up technique was inspired by the collage technique used by artists and photographers. Often the greatest photographs and artwork happen by accident. An unexpected pedestrian walks into your shot, or an odd glob of paint scars your painting, and rather than tragedy you have something unexpected and spontaneous. Take this concept one step further and the artist can juxtapose various visual fragments with great and unexpected results. Gysin and Burroughs wanted to introduce the spontaneity and chance of the collage to the written word, and so they developed and utilized the Cut-up technique. The technique is simple. Take any page of writing. Take a scissors and cut it into four parts; cut straight across, down the middle, on angles, whatever. Now reassemble the parts at random. You now have a different text. Meaning, time lines and narratives are changed. The result may be quite similar to the origina...

http://www.accessgrid.org/ Here is the link and a basic Access Grid Setup. Your Digital Culture Word for the DAY: TELEPRESENCE. EVERYONE please google, research, copy/paste what you can find about the idea of telepresence and then place it in a comment to this post. I'll explain this more on wednesday!

We will be using a book called "multimedia- fom Wagner to Virtual Reality" edited by Randall Packer & Ken Jordan