2. Space - May 3

Myron Krueger, «Videoplace»,

Agenda may be subject to change

10:00 - 12:00   Review Old New Media Projects 

12:00 - 13:00    Lunch (resolve  OpenFrameworks downloads/install issues)

13:00 - 13:45   Space

NMNT 2019 workshop 2 from Peter Van Der Putten

A home video interview of Morton Heilig sitting behind his Sensorama.

Myron Krueger. Interview with Myron Krueger, Museum of Natural History, Vernon, 1988.

For references see the Space | Realities section in Further Reading & Viewing

Recommended Reading

If you want to deepen your knowledge of what we discussed after class, the following papers are highly recommended for background reading.

Morton Leonard Heilig. El cine del futuro: The Cinema of the Future. Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments 1.3 (1992): 279-294. English translation of El cine del futuro, Expacios, 1955. 

Ivan Sutherland. The Ultimate Display. Proceedings of IFIP, 1965, pp 506-508.

Myron Krueger. Responsive Environments. From AFIPS 46 National Computer Conference Proceedings, pp 423-33.

Jack Burnham. Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art. Exhibition Catalogue, Jewish Museum, New York, 1970.

Exhibition with works from a.o. Ted Nelson, and the MIT Architecture Machine group of Nicholas Negroponte, the predecessor to the MIT Media Lab, who created a block world built by robots, but wrecked by gerbils.

For more, see 1. Further Reading & Viewing - Realities section.

13:45 - 14:15    Sub Spaces [if we have time]

Students will be divided into groups that will explore subspaces of space, given example projects. 

You need to:

• • Identify and explain a/the common theme for this subspace

  • Abstract from these examples, for instance:

    • What are key issues or debates in this subspace

    • What are typical type of projects / prototype project in this subspace 

    • Can you relate the the projects to each other

  • Find additional examples

  • We will do a quick plenary recap. What was the most interesting example (if it is a new one, list it so that i can show it).

See 2.3 Spaces

14:15 - 14:30 Break

14:30 - 16:45    OpenFrameworks in Space

This will be a real time coding deep dive into the harsh and wonderful world of Open Frameworks, a framework for creative coding.

Here is a whole bunch of openFrameworks projects from the Creative Applications network, and the openFrameworks showreel:

See 2.1 Open Frameworks for the exercises.

16:45 Final things

* Wrap up Lab 1.

* Explaining Lab 2. Walk in support Tuesday May 21

* Did you know we just started an equipment lending system for the more expensive stuff. We are filling up the database step by step, we currently have <30% in there, so if you want to know what we have talk to a staff member and we show it.

* Expo location announcement (forgot that in the end last time)