Interactive Media with Max - Student Work 2017

As I heard the voice of William S. Burroughs, with its deep timbre and its authoritative pronouncements, I thought of the work of a Mexican-American poet who refers to borders as places of power: the border between city and desert, between family and individual, between words and images. In the three sound files that I listened to, “Bradley The Buyer”, “Mr. Bradley Mr. Martin Hear Us Through A Hole In The Air”, and “Inflexible Authority” from ubu.com, Burroughs too was exploring different types of borderlands. Perhaps all poets do this, but the methods Burroughs used in cutting up and interweaving texts seem to find a back door into the consciousness, and to test the boundaries of cogency and confusion, the meaning versus the sound of words and the experiential nature of reality. For me the sounds become a kind of drone or buzz, like a mantra, which allows word associations to freely surface from their mysterious place of origin.

Hi Everyone, this is mainly for MAC OS users [Nick, Elaine!] here is a .dmg with Open Scene Graph --a a nice version at that! http://www.openscenegraph.org/downloads/stable_releases/OpenSceneGraph-2.2/binaries/OSX/OpenSceneGraph-2.2.0-10.5SDK.dmg PLease install this version for mac!

1. Marco Brambilla:Civilization This video brings us a journey from hell to heaven with fabulous computer technology. It uses hundreds of individual layers, which are representatives of different times, like inception of train, plane, Ameircan Beauty contest, stripper dance, etc, to descripe the journey sarcastically. The authors' attitude to this world is obviously from this video-they hate wars, like peace, hate Nazi, love Michael Jackson. 2. Pd-extention the Pd didn't work on my computer when i tried to run in on Tuesday's class, then I reinstalled the Pd, the quicktime and even started to use mouse instead of touch board when i got home, but it still doesn't work. Anyone can help me?

I am running PD_Extended on OSX, which is where I think most of my problems are probably arising. I am able to open up all of the GEM components, but I am not able to manipulate them in anyway. That goes from rotating the Dancer to changing the font in the Text element. I am able to layer multiple elements (see included pic) but that is about it. I could change the justification on the text, but couldn't change the words themselves. On this example, I used the biquad, maskDancer, and Text elements.

I'm interested in adding a fountain at the top of a tea pot. I turned the color of the default yellow teapot into a green one. When clicking "draw line" instead of "draw fill", I found teapot changed its appearance. As for the fountain, a lot of parameters can be adjusted. For example, you can control the radius, velocity, size of the water column.

After I try every GEM modes, I find the ColorMatrix is my favorite one. It seems like it just changes color of that image, but when you stare at that image for a while, you would find that image look different. I check out the panel, it just shows three colors: green, blue, and red; however it looks so colorful. I do not have any experience in tradition computer language, it is not very difficult for me to operate so far. Hope I can get more info about these fantastic stuff. by Wei-Hsuan Yang