Ramapo College of New Jersey School of Contemporary Arts
ARTS 323-01 Physical Computing
Due Week 2
-Select an artist from our syllabus (Syllabus on Canvas)
-Understand the LED and the resistor
-Read up on Brunvand's the basics of electricity
-Homework: Take ONE line from your favorite poem, draw your poem, and prepare to make a small (roughly 5 inch cube) sculpture that is a symbol of that one line from the poem (Drawing due week 2, object due week 3).
-Select an artist from our syllabus (Syllabus on Canvas)
-Understand the LED and the resistor
-Read up on Brunvand's the basics of electricity
-Homework: Take ONE line from your favorite poem, draw your poem, and prepare to make a small (roughly 5 inch cube) sculpture that is a symbol of that one line from the poem (Drawing due week 2, object due week 3).
If you have modeling skills in C4D, Rhino, or Sketchup, use that. If not, prepare to make it out of paper, fabric, cardboard, or any material you like.
Questions we'll try to answer
-What was the first computer?
-When were the first experiments with 'robots' or automatons?
-What is interactivity?
-What is interactive art?
-What is Art?
Much computer interface design instruction takes the computer hardware for given
If molecules are moving all of the time, is everything active and if we experience it is it INTERactive?
Computer art- physical computing art- is it just art with chips and gears?
Interactive art is a form of art that involves the spectator in some way. Some sculptures achieve this by letting the observer walk in, on, and around the piece. Other works include computers and sensors to respond to motion, heat or other types of input based on how we interact with each other. THIS is Physical Computing.
We want to look at examples that are a mix of:
design, art, engineering,
and possibly also...
psychotherapy, fashion, industrial design, architecture.
All present elements inform the interaction facilitated between participants and objects. An opportunity for invention, fine art, and new ideas, is made manifest emphasizing and utilizing the aspects of objects that are not what have been traditionally designed into them intentionally – but that nevertheless have large roles in our interaction and approach to them.
Which of these are PHYSICAL COMPUTING AND WHICH ARE ROBOTIC?
Blendie Scream Body
Joseph Morris Solar Particle Wind Chime
Sougweng Choung & Her Ted Talk (start at 1:59)
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| with Dennis Hong |
What makes a good physical computing artist?
-Willingness to take risks and fail with gusto-Creativity
-Ability to synthesize - make connections between ideas
For Fun: put together your mad inventor wishlist from:
McMaster-Carr
All Electronics Corp
BG Micro
Jameco
(these are good resources to know, but as long as you have your Arduino kit, you'll be all set)
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