Aesthetic computing

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   課程大綱:
  week 1: Introduction to aesthetics and computation
          DBN操作手冊 by 李家祥
          John Maeda's comment about DBN
          print and prepare paper in week 2
  week 2: Material and Form
          Reading:Svanæs, D., Verplank, W. "In Search of Metaphors for Tangible User Interfaces", DARE'2000, ACM, 2000.
  week 3: Generative Art
          Generative Art Definition in Wikipedia
          runme.org
          dmtr.org: caligrafia EXE PTC Anatomik Automaze
          donrelyea.com: Donrelyea Algorithm Art generative video contextual art Postmodern Modernist Generator
          Leonardo Solaas: solaas.com.ar gologo   Dreamlines solaas.com.ar English Lesson 
          proce55ing.org: kaleidoskop Caligraft ART+COM A String
          Reading:What is generative Art? by Philip Galanter
  week 4. Tools, Media, and Metaphor
          Outlines:
            1. Programming basis, 命名法
            2. Processing basis: Coordinates, Width and Height, Setup and Draw, No Loop, Loop, Redraw, Functions, Recursion, Recursion 2, Objects
          assignment: 
            1. Rewrite "functions" sample file in processing "learning" with your own elegant style
            2. Draw a "Kandinsky" style picture with processing shapes and lines
            3. Run all samples in "statements and comments" in processing learning and make your own variation on your sketchbook
            4. Integrate "mousePressed()" into your work

  week 5. Prossing Tutorial
          Introduction to Computational Media by Daniel Shiffman
          Interative Kandinsky
          Piet Mondrian
          Processing: colorMode()  
          Object-oriented Programming in Processing
            example: eye in Processing
          Fearture Artist: Piet Mondrian
          Homework:
          1. all "motion" examples in Processing Learning 
          2. Enable your Kandinsky with color-changing in object-oriented sytle
          3. Study Mondrian's artwork
          4. Draw your "Mondrian" sytle work
  week 6. Color Scheme
          Johannes Itten
          Exercise: color scheme in Processing
  week 7. Vasarely and Metaphor
          Reading: Ben Fry,"Organic Information Design," Master's Thesis, MIT Media Lab.
          Processing: loadImage()
          Image-driven (image-based) rendering
          Homework: circle aray with random analogous color scheme 
  week 8.
          warm-up: NxM eyeballs that look at mouse cursor and change in analogous color scheme
          Introduction to Generative Mobile Art: ".walk" project"
        Vasarely 意象看板
  week 9. 數位藝術演講 by 駱麗真老師
  week 10. Midterm week

  week 11. Interactive Design Paradigm
  Scott R. Klemmer, Wendy Ju, Bill Verplank, "Teaching embodied interaction design practice", Vol. 135, AIGA American Institute of Graphic Arts New York ,NY, USA pdf
  Sculptor's perspective: Richard Long
  Why Your Camera Does Not Matter (Chinese Edition)
  Cut & Paste
  week 12. Image-Driven Processing
  (week 12.  Audio as material
          Spatial and Responsive Audio
          reading and composing: http://ixi-software.net/   
           Web-based Generative Soundscape
          http://www.thecentralcity.co.uk/index.html (original UB)

---  "Forever" DBN Workshop  ---

  week 13. Vasarely Return
           1. brainstorming: keywordstorming, image board
           2. metaphor in physical world: sketch
           3. codes, space, and action
           4. presentation: poster, computing, and action recording (practice)
           photo in classroom
  
  
  week 14. Vasarely Return Group Discussion
           blog
           photo in classroom
  week 15. Vasarely Return Exhibition Setup

 --- Vasarely Return 2006 midterm Expo ---
 vasarely return blog
 Vasarely Return Exhibition照片
 reported by microplayground

  week 16. fractal rules
           concept film of ACG at MIT
           forever workshop discussion
           Computation as artistic presentation:
           1. Abstract art, arithmetic:  Fractal, generative art
           2. Mechanic metaphor: visual machine, automata
           3. Organic metaphor: nature, live, cell.

  week 13. DBN Review
            H. Matisse, Paul Klee
  week 13. Fractal Art
           Software: http://www.ultrafractal.com/
  week 14. Media as Semiotic Machine
           reading: Thor Magnusson, " Screen-Based Musical Interfaces as
           Semiotic Machines," In Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on New
              Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-06).
           Exercise: audio semiotics project
  week 15. Project Proposal
  week 16. Processing Review
  week 17. Project Review
  week 18. Final Demonstration

       ------ DBN Expo-------

參考資料:

http://del.icio.us/jazzliang/AestheticComputing

微型樂園 DBN 教學 http://www.digiarts.org.tw/Events/dbnweb/about.html

http://dbn.media.mit.edu

http://www.processing.org

http://sidi.hongik.ac.kr/xd6/peter/schedule.html

http://acg.media.mit.edu

http://arduino.berlios.de/

由李家祥所編撰的DBN的擿作手冊

http://www.digiarts.org.tw/Events/dbnweb/doc/dbn_readme.doc

john maeda對於DBN的comment

http://www.maedastudio.com/1999/dbn/index.php?category=all&next=exists&prev=exists&this=design_by_numbers

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