Special Panel and Exhibit at the One Makes Many Colloquium in the Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C105 “Garage” on Friday, November 11, 2011

2:45-4:15  The Digital Muse: The Internet, Social Media, and Contemporary Poetics

w/ Steve Roggenbuck, Dan Anderson, and Bill Seaman (Moderator: Patrick Herron)

Exhibit of featured speakers’ digital poetry work opens in the GreaterThanGames Lab (FHI Bay 4, C104) 11AM – 6PM on Friday.

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Panel and Exhibit Co-sponsored by the FHI GreaterThanGames Lab and the Program in Information Science + Information Studies

For full event information and schedule see the One Makes Many event website.

The MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts  invites you to meet pioneering Augmented Reality artist,

Tamiko Thiel

Artist Talk and Reception
Monday, October 3
6:15-8pm
FHI Garage – C105, Bay 4, 1st Floor, Smith Warehouse

Internationally exhibited new media artist Tamiko Thiel is interested in developing the dramatic and narrative capabilities of interactive 3D virtual reality as a medium for addressing social and cultural issues. She lectures internationally on the creation of meaning in art and of dramatic experience in time-based and interactive media. She is developing a theory of dramatic structure for virtual reality that merges concepts of structured experience from music theory, drama and urban planning together with the possibilities for user engagement and immersion provided by first-person interactivity.

Thiel has taught and lectured internationally at such institutions as Carnegie Mellon University; the MIT Media Lab; the Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Germany; the University of California/San Diego; the USC School of Cinema-Television; and the School of Film and Television in Babelsberg, Germany. A founding member of the cyberartist group Manifest.AR, she participated in the path-breaking augmented reality exhibit “We AR in MoMA,” an uninvited guerilla takeover of MoMA New York. Her recent projects include interventions at the Museum of Modern Art, NY and the 54th  International Venice Bienniale, Italy.

This lecture is presented as part of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Visiting Artist Series, in collaboration with Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS) , Art, Art History and Visual Studies (AAHVS), the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), and the Program of the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)

Tamiko will also be doing an Augmented Reality Workshop for the MFA students and some ISIS and GreaterThanGames students on Wednesday, 10/5 from 3-6pm in the Old Carpentry Shop (next to Smith Warehouse). Space is limited; please contact Victoria Szabo for more information or sign up here: http://tinyurl.com/TamikoThielAR

Due to numerous scheduling conflicts among our Lab members and affiliates, and the fact that we haven’t yet received and/or set up all our gaming equipment just yet, we are POSTPONING the GreaterThanGames Lab game night we had originally planned for this evening. We anticipate rescheduling for late September/early October when we have had time to settle in and sort our schedules.

Many apologies for the late notice. We will let everyone know when the new time is set, and hope to see you all there.

In the meantime, if you were planning on coming to the session tonight, we urge you to set aside that time and play games on your own!

Come learn more and sign up for GreaterThanGames activities at the Humanities Lab Open House on 9/2 at 3:30PM in Bay 4 of the Smith Warehouse!

THE WORKSHOP IS FULL

TIME AND LOCATION
Time: Tuesday April 12 and April 19 – 11am -> 2pm
Location: East Duke Building, Room 108

INSTRUCTOR
Olivier Perriquet

DESCRIPTION
The workshop is an introduction to Arduino and DIY electronics. Arduino is an
open-source electronics prototyping environment widely used in the art
community to design interactive objects or systems sensitive and responsive to
the analog world. Since a few years, building electronic interactive systems
has become quite accessible and requieres only reduced technical skills: the
aim of the workshop is mainly to « demystify » these technologies and to learn
the basics in a lively atmosphere. Each participant will build a simple
machine that sends and receives signals. All the machines will eventually
interact in a single communicative system, inspired from Chinese Whispers.
Errors typically accumulate through retelling, noise in the transmission
channels, miss-communication and the probable oddness of the machines may add
to the experience and set the ground for exploring some key concepts of
cybernetics, such as feedback mechanisms and order from noise.

BOOKS & ONLINE RESSOURCES
official arduino website (including many resources, references and tutorials)
http://www.arduino.cc
technical programming ref. + basics in electronics (free download)
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/arduino-programming-notebook/3524028

REQUIEREMENTS
A laptop running OS X, Windows, or Linux with a USB port

PREREQUISITES
A basic knowledge of programming and/or electronics is helpful but not
necessary.
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Oivier Perriquet
Visiting artist – Department of Visual Studies
Smith Warehouse, Bay 11, Rm 240
Duke University – Durham, NC – USA
+1-919-308-6496 – http://cesium-133.net

Sponsored by Information Science + Information Studies and the Visual Studies Initiative

The GreaterThanGames Lab will launch in Fall 2011.

Come visit the Franklin Humanities Institute Lab Open House on Monday, March 28 at 5:15-6:45PM in Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Room C105 for more information on this and the other Labs. You can learn about courses and projects, meet the faculty, and find out about the many ways you can get involved! Contact ves4 at duke.edu.