Tomorrow Thursday night is our video screening event at Huangpu village. Two weeks ago students from my video class started projects to created various video projects to document and narrate the life and history of Huangpu village. Huangpu village is about to have its fifth redevelopment. My friend Wang Ge is one of the main designer in this redevelopment and with him we initiated this project. The screening will take place in an ancient hall in the village from the Qing Dynasty called Hu Shi Zong Ci. We have invited villagers, students in the university and designers from the redevelopment studio. The planning of the whole event is less than two weeks, so everyone is pretty excited but little nervous at the same time. (Please don’t rain that night!)

It is the first time for most of my students to make documentary videos, and hopefully this first time will have them realize the digital media they are using can be history making tool.

Chinese posting about this event is on mediaexperiment.org Feel free to contact me (lu@deerfang.org) if you want to come and need someone to guide your way.

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Read this doc on Scribd: W3b Sk1llz Zhongshan University Day 2: Creative Commons and Stylesheets

BTW, here are the slides from Day 1.

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Originally from W3b Sk1llz Day 2 at Zhongshan University on Creative Commons and Style as in Sheets

I’m helping Lu out this week by teaching a couple of guest lectures. Believe it or not, Zhongshan University doesn’t have ANY web courses in their new media department! Here are the presentation as well for the students to use:

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I’m testing out scribd as a presentation storage system since the traffic there is off the hizzle (shake your skittles).

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Hello! My blog is back finally after 2 months unavailable. Yes I am still in Guangzhou right now. And I am working with about 140 students from Sun Yat-sen University on new media art and experimental video. Every Thursday and Tuesday about this time, my brain is normally not very active anymore after six hours teaching with two classes. But today Jon gave the students a web workshop in class. So Hive-five to Jon!

The students are very interesting because they mostly didn’t have background in art before entering the university. Therefore to me they have great potential to be shaped and formed. Some of them have produced very exciting projects in the class. It’s amazing for me to see some of them change in their work. And I try to make sure to assign them home work that can change their normal way of thinking and leave enough freedom for them make decision and take action. But of course you can’t always predict what the result is especially having a large group of people.

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Course Outline:::
Jitter Night School 2007
Instructor: Andrew Benson

Course Outline:::

Day 1 :: Intro to Jitter, the Matrix, and Interaction
- Intro to Jitter features
- What is a matrix?
- Using the Jitter documentation (html ref-pages, help files, etc.)
- Jitter data flow
- Matrix as data container
- Audio/Max interaction with Jitter
- Brief intro to Quicktime

Day 2 :: Focus on Video
- Quicktime in Jitter
- Playing QT movies
- Real-time editing in Jitter
- Grabbing input from external video devices
- Recording to disk
- Compression
- Compositing/Blending
- Crossfades
- Keying/Alpha-channels
- jit.op for mathematical blends (additive,subtractive,difference, etc.)
- Filtering, Blurring, and Feedback
- temporal vs. spatial filters
- creating bit maps from images
- convolution
- intro to feedback (named matrices, jit.wake, etc.)

Day 3 :: OpenGL, Slabs, and other advanced topics
- OpenGL lesson
- Deconstructing an OpenGL patch
- the OpenGL matrix format
- applying textures
- blending, layering, and depthbuffering
- Using Slabs for Optimized Video Processing
- What is a slab? What is a shader?
- Optimized transfer of video using UYVY color
- Intro to the provided shaders
- Quick look at a shader program?
- Performance and Live-video concerns
- Using a second display (projector)
- Preloading, RAM vs. Disk-access
- Basic Optimization strategies

Class Patches:::
Day 1 patches
Day 2 patches
Day 3 patches
Jitter Demo Patches

Jitter Recipes:::
Jitter Recipes-Book1
Jitter Recipes-Book2
Jitter Recipes-Book3

Third-Party CV externals:::
Jean-Marc Pelletier’s CV.JIT
David Rokeby’s SoftVNS
Wesley Smith’s Misc. Jitter Externals

Other Awesome Jitter Users:::
Anton Marini – AKA vade.
Joshua Goldberg
Randy Jones
Sue Costabile

Video Downloads:::
Video-Tracking Test Footage
Archive.org- Ephemeral Films,Open-source Video,etc.
VJ Forums Content Finding Forum- Browse the threads here for links to all sorts of short clips in every theme.

—-Not Jitter-specific, but some useful info and inspirations:—-

Traditional Authors:
Giuseppe Arcimboldo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo
Giacomo Balla: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Balla
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciurlionis
Theo van Doesburg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Doesburg
Marcel Duchamp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp
Wassily Kandinsky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky
František Kupka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/František_Kupka
Paul Klee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klee
Étienne-Jules Marey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étienne-Jules_Marey
László Moholy-Nagy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Moholy-Nagy
Piet Mondrian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian
Eadweard Muybridge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge
Georgia O’Keeffe: http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/indexflash.php
Alexander Rodchenko: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_Rodchenko
Arnold Schönberg: http://www.schoenberg.at/default_e.htm
Alexander Scriabin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin
Alfred Stieglitz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz
Synchromism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchromism

Classic Audiovisual Authors:
Wladimir Baranoff-Rossiné: http://www.baranoffrossine.com/museum/index.cfm?SelectLang=English
Jordan Belson: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Belson
Mary Ellen Bute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Bute
Stan Brakhage: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/brakhagestan
Louis-Betrand Castel: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/castellouis
Larry Cuba: http://www.well.com/~cuba/index.html
Tom DeWitt: http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/fva/D/Tom_Dewitt.html
Charles Dockum: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/dockumcharles
Viking Eggeling: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/eggelingviking
Oskar Fischinger: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger
Mary Hallock-Greenewalt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hallock-Greenewalt
Hi Hirsh: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/hirshhyfolder
Len Lye: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Lye
Norman McLaren: http://www.nfb.ca/portraits/fiche.php?id=285&v=h&lg=en
Nam June Paik: http://www.paikstudios.com/
Hans Richter: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/richterhans
Alexander Wallace Rimington: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/rimingtona
Walter Ruttmann: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/ruttmannwalter
Daniel Sandin: http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vidsynth/sandin/sandin.htm
Harry Smith: http://www.harrysmitharchives.com/
Léopold Survage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léopold_Survage
Edgard Varèse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Varèse
Bill Viola: http://www.billviola.com/
James Whitney: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitney_(filmmaker)
John Whitney Sr.: http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/profile/whitney/nobio_intro.html
Thomas Wilfred: http://www.lumia-wilfred.org/
Iannis Xenakis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iannis_Xenakis

Contemporary Animations:
J. Walt Adamczyk: http://www.johnadamczyk.com/filmvideo.html xvid
Bill Alves: http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/
Bret Battey: http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~bbattey/
Michael Betancourt: http://www.michaelbetancourt.com/art/telemetry/
Liubo Borissov: http://www.music.columbia.edu/~liubo/bohor05/index2.html
Peter Bosch & Simone Simmons: http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/paginas/v6/eaguas.html
Chris Casady: http://www.naptime.com/flash/artexercises/
Robert Darroll: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/darrollrobertfolder/statements
Jeffers Egan: http://www.jeffersegan.com/
Jim Ellis: http://emsh.calarts.edu/~jim/
Robin Fox: http://www.synrecords.com/label.html
Francesco Gaffuri: http://www.francescogaffuri.com/
Andrew Garton: http://www.toysatellite.org/agarton/2004/01/floating_point.html
André Gonçalves: http://www.ctrl.tk/
Robert Hodgin: http://www.flight404.com/blog/
Rumi Humphrey: http://refresh.vu/primera.htm
Samantha Krukowski: http://www.cm.aces.utexas.edu/faculty/skrukowski/
Stefanie Ku: http://www.dioskouroi.org
Anne-Sarah LeMeur: http://aslemeur.free.fr/
José Lopez-Montes: http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/user_page.pl?url=lopezmontes
Andrew Lyons: http://www.users.bigpond.com/tstex/
Stephanie Maxwell: http://www.rit.edu/~sampph/Works.html
Dennis Miller: http://www.dennismiller.neu.edu/
Bärbel Neubauer: http://www.spiralsmorphs.de/
Scott Nyerges: http://www.nyerges.com/
Richard Reeves: http://www.awn.com/qas/profiles/richard.htm
Joost Rekveld: http://www.lumen.nu/rekveld/wp/index.php
Aaron Ross: http://www.dr-yo.com/
Jøran Rudi: http://www.notam02.no/~joranru/wtca/index.html
Michael Scroggins: http://emsh.calarts.edu/~aka/papers/Absolute_Animation_and_Immersive_VR.html
Robert Seidel: http://www.2minds.de/
Semiconductor: http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/soundfilms.htm
John Stehura: http://cyberanimation.tripod.com/index.htm
David Stout: http://nfold.csf.edu/
Rob Switzer: http://www.archive.org/details/Study_One
Ying Tan: http://www.uoregon.edu/~tanying/index.html
Telcosystems: http://www.telcosystems.net/
Shawn Towne: http://web.mac.com/towne/iWeb/shawn/towne.html
Edward Zajec: http://www.dam.org/zajec/

Contemporary Installations/Performances:
Actop: http://www.actop.net/
Richard Bailey: http://www.imagesavant.com/
Benton-C Bainbridge: http://www.benton-c.com/
Steve Beck: http://www.stevebeck.tv/
Coldcut: http://www.coldcut.net/coldcut/
Dienststelle: http://www.dienststelle.de/
D-Fuse: http://www.dfuse.com/
Scott Draves: http://draves.org/
Granular Synthesis: http://www.granularsynthesis.info/
Peter Greenaway: http://petergreenaway.co.uk/
Edwin van der Heide: http://www.evdh.net/
Kurt Hentschlager: http://www.hentschlager.info/
Chika Iijima – Zach Layton: http://www.imagima.com/
Hfr-Lab: http://www.hfr-lab.com/
Speedy J: http://www.speedyj.com/newsite/index.html
Randy Jones: http://2uptech.com/
Skoltz Kolgen: http://www.skoltzkolgen.com/
Ryoichi Kurokawa: http://www.ryoichikurokawa.com/
Ulf Langheinrich: http://www.epidemic.net/geogb/art/gs/ulf/indexgb.html
Golan Levin: http://www.flong.com/
The Light Surgeons: http://www.thelightsurgeons.co.uk/
Jarryd Lowder: http://jarrydlowder.com/
Glenn McKay: http://www.glennmckay.to/
MELA Foundation: http://melafoundation.org/main.htm
Finn & Robin McNicholas: http://ultre.co.uk/
Nokami: http://www.nokami.com/htm_en/01_0.htm
Alva Noto: http://www.alvanoto.com/
otolab: http://www.otolab.net/
Jack Ox: http://www.bway.net/~jackox/
Scott Pagano: http://www.neither-field.com/index.php?page=bio
Power Graphixx: http://www.power-graphixx.com/
Reactable: http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/
Curtis Roads: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~clang/
Ben Sheppee: http://www.eoptica.com/sheppee/
George Stadnik: http://www.photonlightguitars.com/index.html
Jennifer Steinkamp: http://jsteinkamp.com/
UVA: http://www.uva.co.uk/
The Vasulkas Inc.: http://www.vasulka.org/
Leo Villareal: http://www.villareal.net/

Resources:
Center for Visual Music: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/
The iotaCenter: http://www.iotacenter.org/

Other Links:
arika: http://www.arika.org.uk/
Ars Electronica: http://www.aec.at/en/index.asp
Center for Brain and Cognition: http://psy.ucsd.edu/chip/CBC2.html
Ernest Chladni: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Chladni
Experimental Television Center: http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/
Fred Collopy: http://rhythmiclight.com/
Color organ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_organ
Richard Cytowic: http://cytowic.net/
Dissonanze: http://www.dissonanze.it/home/home.php
EMAF: http://www.emaf.de/
The Fischinger Archive: http://www.oskarfischinger.org/
International Congress Synaesthesia, Science & art: http://www.sinestesia2007.info/
Lumia manuscripts: http://mssa.library.yale.edu/madid/showthumb.php?id=mss&msrg=1375&msrgext=0&pg=1
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Montevideo/Time Based Arts: http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index.html
The New York Digital Salon – Abstract Visual Music: http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/11/index.htm
NOT STILL ART Festival: http://www.improvart.com/nsa/
NOTV: http://www.notv.com/
Optronica: http://www.optronica.org/
Piano Optofonique: http://optophoniqueeng.heatherodonnell.info/
Prometheus Institute: http://prometheus.kai.ru/
Oliver Sacks: http://www.oliversacks.com/
Sonar: http://www.sonar.es/portal/eng/home.cfm
Sons & Lumières: http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/AllExpositions/E4B6AD56B6DA4B2FC1256DD600561C77?OpenDocument
Transmediale: http://www.transmediale.de/site/
V2-Institute for the Unstable Media: http://www.v2.nl/
Video Synthesizers: http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vsynths.htm
Visual music: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_music
Visual Music: http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/visualmusic/
Visual Music Marathon: http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm/
What Sound Does a Color Make?: http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/exhibitions/whatsound/what_sound.htm
White Noise: http://www.acmi.net.au/wn_white_noise.jsp

Books:
Expanded Cinema, Youngblood, P. Dutton & Co., 1970, http://www.ubu.com/historical/youngblood/expanded_cinema.pdf
Experimental Animation, Russett – Starr, Da Capo Press, 1976, ISBN 0-306-80314-2
The Sound of Painting, von Maur, Prestel, 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2082-3

Sons & Lumières, von Maur – Rousseau – Cooper – Levin – Lista – Kahn – Duplaix – Kihm – Szendy, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2004, ISBN 2-84426-244-9
Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900, Brougher – Strick – Wiseman – Zilczer, Thames and Hudson, 2005, ISBN 0-500-51217-5
audio-visual art + vj culture, Faulkner/D-FUSE, Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2006, ISBN 1-85669-490-9

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Yeah, we had fun and made podcasts.

 

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I’m not teaching this semester at SFAI Design+Technology, but the event I started along with Paul Klein, the D+T chair, is continuing with a *hard* look at the 01SJ/ISEA conference that happened last summer in San Jose. It will be good, as Paul is good about setting the bar high for events with good speakers, wine and snacks.

It will be good for me because I am not working or doing anything for this event, so I can participate and test my might at handing out the most business cards per square inch (bc sq/in).