'Sharing is Sexy,' a project by CRCA researcher DJ Lotu5, was interviewed in Rolling Stone Italy. Roughly translated, the title is "Free Sex in the Free Web 2.0", and the subheading is "The first open source porn laboratory is born in a queer community."
posted on: June 24, 2008
The Software Studies Initiative will be hosting visiting Fellow Tristan Thielmann during April and May of 2008. Tristan Thielmann is an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Research Center "Media Upheavals", University of Siegen, Germany. His cross-disciplinary research and practice explores the aesthetics and history of geomedia with a focus on navigation systems, geobrowsers and geosurveillance technologies. He has recently published a book on digital displays and the spatial turn in cultural & social sciences. Currently Dr Thielmann is completing three books, one on "locative media", one on "media geography" and another on "actor-media theory". While he is staying as a visiting fellow of Software Studies lab, he is doing oral history interviews with pioneers in mobile cartography and GPS technology.
posted on: April 22, 2008
Brazilian new media and art & technology researcher Cicero Silva will be spending Spring term (through July 31, 2008) as a visiting researcher at CRCA. His past work deals with conceptual procedures using computers, such as algorithm generated texts and user generated interfaces. Cicero will be developing projects for GPS devices (cell phones included) for exhibition at the FILE (the major Electronic Art Festival in Latin America) in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre and also was submited to the MediaLabMadrid and others art & tech exhibitions in UK, Spain and Argentina.
posted on: April 01, 2008
Communication professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin posted the manuscript of "Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games and Software Studies" in daily installments, averaging 2,000 words, over a ten-week period on Grand Text Auto. The GTxA blog, hosted by CRCA, is co-authored by Wardrip-Fruin and five other artists, game designers and academics. Its blend of commentary and high-minded discussion on videogame culture and new media attracts roughly 35,000 unique visitors each month.
posted on: March 21, 2008
INSIDE THE WAVE, running from March 8 through June 22, 2008 at the San Diego Museum of Art, features six artists and artist collectives from the San Diego/Tijuana region working within spheres of alternative cultures to produce works that combine material culture and everyday life. Participating artists include Adriene Jenik; Tijuana-based bulbo collective; Brian Dick and Allison Wiese; Zlatan Vukosavljevic; and the *particle group*, a collective of media and performance artists, including UCSD visual arts professor Ricardo Dominguez.
posted on: February 29, 2008
"Music special: Five great auditory illusions" article in the New Scientist features work by CRCA researcher Diana Deutsch: "Scale illusion" and "Phantom words."
posted on: February 29, 2008
MIT Press has authorized what is probably one of the first blog-based peer reviews for a forthcoming book by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, digital media writer, artist, CRCA researcher, and professor of Coummincations at the University of California, San Diego. Every weekday over the next ten weeks, Wardrip-Fruin will post a section of his new manuscript, Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies, on the popular Grand Text Auto blog (where he is a regular author), with the hope of receiving quality feedback from the site's readers.
posted on: January 22, 2008
Carol Krumhansl of Cornell University, a distinguished psychologist in the area of cognitive processes in music perception and memory, is at UCSD as a visiting scholar with both CRCA and the Neurosciences Institute from January 1 through March 15, 2008.
posted on: January 01, 2008
Virtual Unreality, a new interactive exhibition in the Exploratorium's Seeing Gallery, features Scalable Cities by Sheldon Brown and is open to the public from September 14, 2007-January 7, 2008.
posted on: December 18, 2007
UCSD Visual Arts department is recruiting for a Assistant Professor, tenure-track to Associate Professor, tenured, beginning July 1, 2008. Seeking an artist with a proven exhibition record whose work exhibits an in-depth understanding of computing and its relationship to contemporary art and its discourses.
posted on: December 11, 2007
CRCA Researcher Amy Alexander announces the release of SVEN CV computer vision software. SVEN CV is a software application for real time tracking of pedestrians, using OpenCV. Its robust build has features for tracking several individuals with all kinds of foreground and background occlusions. It
also provides real-time subjective features such as face detection and expression; hair and clothing color; segmentation of the body to give positions for head, shoulders, and torso; direction of movement and more. It transfers the data including the coordinates of the person's outline (matte) to a specified IP address or the local machine via a UDP port. It supports input from both live camera and AVI files.
posted on: December 03, 2007
CRCA researcher and Visual Arts graduate student Micha Cardenas was awarded a 2007-2008 UCIRA Open Classroom Challenge Grant to teach a course on "Collective Art Practice - Performative and Networked Approaches to Challenging Power."
posted on: November 21, 2007
"Sanctuary" -- by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds, founding director of CRCA, was recently presented at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
"Sanctuary" is the latest in a series of works Reynolds been mounting for decades, and incorporates everything from theater to computers to experimental psychology.
posted on: November 20, 2007
Scalable City is a featured demonstration at the IBM booth at Supercomputing '07.
posted on: November 13, 2007
Mark Dresser (Music), Adriene Jenik (Visual Arts), Victoria Petrovich (Theatre and Dance), and Shahrokh Yadegari (Theatre and Dance) are working on a Telematic Performance research project in Fall 2007 and Winter 2008 with colleagues at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustic (CCRMA) at Stanford, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), UCI/Calit2, UC Berkeley, and Princeton University's Sound Lab. This work will produce two performances: a private performance to be held this Friday, November 16 and a public performance in Winter quarter of 2008.
posted on: November 12, 2007
Flo Menezes, visit composer from Brazil, presents a lecture on "Maximal Music" in the CRCA SpatLab, Wednesday, October 31st at 5pm. The public is welcome.
posted on: October 30, 2007
New Book by Miller Puckette
The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music has been published by Imperial College Press. Miller Puckette, Assoc. Director of CRCA, has produced the first book to develop both the theory and the practice of synthesizing musical sounds using computers. Each chapter starts with a theoretical description of a technique or problem and ends with a series of working examples which cover a wide range of applications. This is both a valuable textbook as well as valuable reading for graduate students, music composers, researchers, performers and music software enthusiasts.
posted on: July 09, 2007
Calit2 appointed Pulitzer-prize winning Roger Reynolds to the new position of "Composer in Residence" for an initial two-year term.
posted on: June 29, 2007
Researcher Arshia Cont, has been performing for the past two months with world renowned Arditti Quartet. He performed Marco Stroppa's "Spiralli" for string quartet and live electronics and Jonathan Harvey's 4th String Quartet with live electronics at Festival Musica Electronica Nova in Poland, May 25. On July 8, he will perfom the electronics of Pierre Boulez' piece for Violin and Live electronics (ANTHEME 2) with Irvin Arditti in Metz during the Acanthes festival.
posted on: June 21, 2007
"PROFILING" show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 8-September 9, 2007. Amy Alexander's SVEN (Surveillance Video Entertainment Network) will be part of this exhibit.
posted on: June 08, 2007
Scalable City went on display today at the headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences in the nation's capital, as part of a new exhibition titled "Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: Shared Visions Between Art and Technology."
posted on: June 04, 2007
Dr. Lev Manovich (Professor, Visual Arts) and Dr. Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Assistant Professor, Communication) are currently recruiting for a Postdoctoral Researcher with a PhD in the humanities, social sciences, information science, or related interdisciplinary area, to join a new Software Studies initiative at UCSD.
posted on: May 17, 2007
Shanghai MOCA presents Scalable City 1.6.5 March 5, 2007 through April 20, 2007.
posted on: March 09, 2007
Experimental Game Lab shows The Scalable City at the Game Developers Conference, March 5-9 2007, in San Francisco.
posted on: March 09, 2007
Interesting course offerings for spring 07- CAT 124 Social Architectures Interventionist Art, Participatory Design and Social Movement and CSE 125: Software System Design and Implementation.
posted on: February 21, 2007
An Inaugural Symposium for the Southern California Computing in Music (SCCiM) network will be held at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, on Saturday, February 17, 2007. The establishment of the SCCiM network, organized in part by CRCA researchers Shlomo Dubnov and Arisha Cont, celebrates the growing nucleus of researchers and research groups focussing on computing applications in music and will facilitate collaborations between music computing researchers, educators, and industry experts in Southern California. The inaugural symposium will feature both faculty and student presentations on music and computing research and will conclude with a roundtable discussion on the role of SCCiM and future activities.
posted on: February 09, 2007
CRCA Researcher and Visual Arts Faculty member, Adriene Jenik was featured alongside her current research project, SPECFLIC, in the Union Tribune on Dec. 31, 2006 in an article entitled, “In ‘Social Cinema,’ You Have a Role.” The author, James Herbert, discusses the theories behind the project as well as the possibility that it may be featured overseas. For more information on this article please visit http://www.uniontribune.com.
posted on: January 11, 2007
Diana Deutsch and Trevor Henthorn’s critique of the article “Early Childhood Music Education and Predisposition to Absolute Pitch: Teasing Apart Genes and Environment” by Peter K. Gregersen, et al [2000] received validation through its publication in the American Journal of Medical Genetics. By reanalyzing the Gregersen data, upon which the argument of the aforementioned article is based, they showed that Absolute Pitch is related to Tone Language, not genetics. Their work on the relationship between genetics and Absolute Pitch is now considered to be among the leading research on the subject and serves as a valuable reference for geneticists.
posted on: December 19, 2006
In his lecture at MLAC, Eduardo Navas will present some of his art, theory and criticism focused on culture and media at large. He will also dicuss his recent research on Remix as a cultural activity affecting curatorial practice and present examples of New Media projects that challenge the way curators approach contemporary art.
posted on: December 19, 2006
Alex Dragulescu's Spam Architecture and Spam Plants digital print series were selected to be exhibited at the Seoul Museum of Art during the 2006 International Media Art Biennale in Seoul, South Korea. A DVD recording of a live VJ performance is also part of the program.
posted on: November 01, 2006
Letterman Digital Arts Center Hosts Audio Engineering Society (AES) for a CineGrid@AES Special Event:
4K digital motion pictures and 24-channel digital audio streamed in real-time via CineGrid to San Francisco from Tokyo, Los Angeles and San Diego
posted on: October 25, 2006
In a rare effort by technologists to give artists an important role in the evolution of multidisciplinary research in science and engineering, CALIT2 appointed Sheldon Brown to be the first Artist in Residence for an initial two-year term.
posted on: May 01, 2006
Visual Art graduate student and CRCA researcher Tim Jaeger is launching his book *VJ : Live Cinema Unraveled* at the TELIC gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
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