Stelarc

Stelarc: The Obsolete Body
Short INTRO

Some images of his work:
HERE

Personification

80's Nostalgia Documentation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNvGabnVnAY

Final Project Rubric

Cohesive and Developed Process - 25

Evolution of Piece over time - 15

Originally Developed Process - 35

Fully Packed and Developed Piece - 25

Wireless Communication with Arduino

Over the weekend, I found a great video explaining how to use Xbee's with Arduino for wireless communication.

Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKVNmA8C6m8

Here is a link to the company behind the video. They sponsor hacker/creator Ben Heck and have some great tutorials: http://www.element14.com/community/groups/arduino

Final Project Scoring

Polish, Finish, Craftsmanship     30%
Pushing beyond comfort zone    15%
Originally developed process     25%
Intensive use of engineering       30%

Wednesday Demands!

Prior to our next class (5/4/11) I would like for you to do the following three things:

1. Motion Capture: Decide how you want to use a motion capture file (More info about system here: Arena)
   Think first about human motion, gesture, the interplay of the body and technology and output. The file format is .BVH - check out more info about the format. We will do 30-60 second captures. Start formulating movements that you want to capture.
2. Reading: Please finish the article that we started in class: "The Virtualization of Art Practice"
   Online version: HERE
   Scanned Version: HERE
   We will be discussing this article at length and I will be asking everyone to participate in this conversation. Please bring some notes on the most pertinent, important and/or divisive parts of the text.
3. Final Project Rubric: For the final project (not the motion capture experiment, but a larger 4 week project), I want you to create your own rubric under which you will work, and by which I will evaluate you. Please choose 4 of the following 8 categories that you want to take on. Also, I want you to divvy up 100 points into those four categories (depending on what you want to emphasize).
   
   
   • Polish/Finish/Craftsmanship
   • Cohesive and Developed Concept
   • Evolution of the Piece Over Time
   • Pushing Beyond Your Comfort Zone
   • Refined Coding/Programming (no glitches)
   • Fully Packaged and Documented Piece (including written statement)
   • Originally Developed Process
   • Intensive Use of Engineering/Circuitry
   
   So for this rubric, you will choose four of the above categories and then put a number value to each category so that they add up to 100 percent.
   
   -John