• 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

• Thursday, July 31, 2008
  CRCA Researchers at FILE 2008, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  FILE 2008 MILLION PIXELS August 05 to 31, 2008 Fiesp Cultural Center Sao Paulo, Brazil CRCA has extensive involvement with this years FILE festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Sheldon Brown will exhibit Scalable City World, Mike Toillion will present BeatBox360 and Peter Otto will show excerpts from Era Lat Notte. Todd Margolis will join Toillion and Brown on a panel on 4K cinema. Noah Waldrup-Fruin, Lev Manovich and Brown are providing catalog essays.
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• Wednesday, July 23, 2008
  Atlas in Silico at Ingenuity Fest in Cleveland Ohio
  Friday, July 25 – Sunday, July 27, 2008 "ATLAS in silico" is a beautiful, interactive 3D experience that uses a participant's movement to trigger mesmerizing, life-size audiovisual effects inspired by the Global Ocean Survey. "ATLAS in Silico" offers an ethereal and dreamlike immersive 3D environment, wherein you can explore life-size renderings of the Global Ocean Survey -- a recent pioneering voyage of discovery circumnavigating the Earth's oceans, the results of which give us a new picture of life on Earth. The room-size installation is playful and yet meaningful for people of all ages: Participants may simply observe, or individuals can step forward and use their own movements to animate and maneuver the colorful 3D images and audio.
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• Wednesday, June 04, 2008
  The Best of ICAMedia 08
  The Best of ICAMedia is a showcase of the exquisite talent of Visual Arts and Music ICAM (Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts major) seniors who have been working in the interdisciplinary world of technology and art. June 4 and 5, 2008, Atkinson Hall Auditorium and Theater.
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• Wednesday, May 14, 2008
  Technology and Art: A tool becomes a force
  Technology and Art: A tool becomes a force Roger Reynolds and Steven Schick Atkinson Hall Auditorium Wednesday May 14 noon – 1:30pm Roger Reynolds and Steven Schick have spent years pushing boundaries, each in his own way. In their quest to convert sonic ideals into experiences for audiences, the computer has now become a factor. Technology can facilitate expression and also allow for work in new areas. Using the computer as a tool brings into reach opportunities not otherwise attainable. Over time, this tool has become an influence on the creative ideals of the music itself. It not only facilitates expression but helps to shape the outcome.
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• Sunday, May 11, 2008
  A wave and waves
  for 100 percussion instruments, by Michael Pisaro. Presented by Greg Stuart, percussion; and Ben Hackbarth, audio projection. Sunday May 11th, 8:00pm, Calit2 Theater, Atkinson Hall.
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Miller Puckette
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Miller Puckette obtained a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT (1980) and Ph. D. in Mathematics from Harvard (1986). Puckette was a member of MIT's Media Lab from its inception until 1987, and then a researcher at IRCAM (l'Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Musique/Acoustique, founded by composer and conductor Pierre Boulez). There he wrote the Max program for MacIntosh computers, which was first distributed commercially by Opcode Systems in 1990 and is now available from Cycling74.com . In 1989 Puckette joined IRCAM's "musical workstation" team and put together an enhanced version of Max, called Max/FTS, for the ISPW system, which was commercialized by Ariel, Inc. This system became a widely used platform in computer music research and production facilities. The IRCAM real-time development team has since reimplemented and extended this software under the name jMax, which is distributed free with source code. Puckette joined the Music department of the University of California, San Diego in 1994, and is now Associate Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). He is currently working on a new real-time software system for live musical and multimedia performances called Pure Data ("Pd"), in collaboration with many other artists/researchers/programmers worldwide. Pd is free and runs on Linux, IRIX, and Windows systems. Since 1997 Puckette has also been part of the Global Visual Music project with Mark Danks, Rand Steiger, and Vibeke Sorensen, which has been generously supported by a grant from the Intel Research Council.